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‘I really didn’t think I’d be in line for two hours, but it’s OK.’ University students join the crowds to pay tribute to suffragist Susan B. Anthony. Melissa Proven ’20 ‘If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be voting today. She’s the one who made it possible for all women to vote and I think… Continue reading Voices of an election

“To boldly go… It’s a voyage that began 50 years ago, on Thursday evening, September 8, 1966. The television series Star Trek, a western for Cold War America, introduced us to Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and the starship Enterprise, inviting us “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” The show attracted a small… Continue reading Star Trek’s Half-Century Voyage

The summer before her senior year of high school, Brynn Lauer ’17, her basketball team’s Most Valuable Player and a regional standout, endured one of the most dreaded injuries in sports: a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee. The ligament—known as the ACL—sits at the center of the knee, stabilizing the… Continue reading Home Team Advantage

Imagine hearing the sounds of classical music reverberating through the chambers of Mammoth Caves or echoing across the Cascade Mountains. This summer, an ensemble of Eastman School of Music musicians is performing from sea to shining sea, bringing newly composed works to majestic locations during the National Park Service’s centennial year celebrations. “In this increasingly… Continue reading Music in the American Wild

It’s Friday afternoon, and Farai Mutonhori ’19 arrives at the crowded entrance to the Wilson Commons Starbucks. Dressed in a white Oxford shirt and tie, the freshman electrical and computer engineering major from Masvingo, Zimbabwe, is taking time out from his usual routine of classes, workshops, and labs to talk about what some of his… Continue reading Searching for words

The sea was angry that day, my friends. Main story text here. Caramels sugar plum dessert bear claw chocolate. Jujubes donut gummi bears gummies tootsie roll jelly beans marzipan chocolate cake sweet. Pastry chupa chups chocolate bar wafer. Pie jelly beans cupcake bonbon. Pudding cotton candy marshmallow soufflé biscuit candy chocolate apple pie cake. Wafer… Continue reading Local lakes, global warming

Picture an attic groaning with papers saved over more than a century. That’s the sight that greeted Glyndon Van Deusen ’25, a professor of history at Rochester from 1930 to 1962, when he was invited to the top floor of the Seward family home—once the house of leading 19th-century American politician and Secretary of State… Continue reading “My Dear Henry…”

Wilson Commons Celebrates 40th Anniversary by Jim Mandelaro A Refurbished Douglass Building Expands on Wilson’s Vision The idea that Wilson Commons would be “a center for University life” has withstood generations of change. And while the building and its spaces have kept up with a growing student population with evolving interests and expectations, a new initiative… Continue reading Wilson Commons at 40

by Jen Roach March 15, 2016 Tucked into a unique triangular space on the second floor of Wilson Commons is a room filled with hundreds of life-size portraits of bees. The tiny canvases are the work of Arizona artist Heather Green, whose exhibition, Pinpoints of Perception: 1000 Native Bees, is on display until the end… Continue reading A honey of an exhibit

Charles Augustus Thompson is believed to be the first African-American to graduate from the University. Thompson, who had lived previously in Buffalo and Memphis, Tennessee, attended Buffalo Normal School and Buffalo State College before enrolling at Rochester. In a survey of seniors in the Campus (forerunner of the Campus Times), he was one of only… Continue reading Charles Augustus Thompson