It’s been almost two years to the day that the University of Rochester proposed taking over East High School; the State Education Department gave the Rochester school district few options. In a district used to crisis, East, one the lowest performing schools in the state, had become a three-alarm fire. If the UR didn’t step […]
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GALLERY: ‘Not My America’ rally at the University of Rochester
A “Not My America” rally was held in the University of Rochester’s Eastman Quadrangle on Friday, bringing several hundred people out to protest against the election of Donald Trump and his history of racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic remarks and practices. Following opening remarks commemorating veterans (the rally was held on Veterans Day), a moment […]
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Week ahead: Irondequoit bus route, nature, Little Italy discussions
Regional Transit Service will hold listening sessions on its bus Route 37 from noon to 1 p.m., and again from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., on Tuesday, October 4, at the RTS Transit Center, 60 St. Paul Street. The route starts at the Transit Center and travels up North Clinton to Irondequoit, where it eventually […]
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Downtown development misses prime parcel
The University of Rochester has had nearly five years to develop a prime piece of downtown real estate known as Block F on East Main Street, diagonally across from the Eastman School of Music. But Rochester’s big-gun developers, the ones most likely to take on such a project, are tied up with other ventures, according […]
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UR’s Seward archive is now online
William Henry Seward was Lincoln’s secretary of state and integral in the purchase of Alaska.
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Signs of intelligent life
Babies can’t talk, but they have a lot to share about how our brains develop
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When doctors can’t ease suffering
Modern clinical care does not give suffering the attention it needs, says Dr. Ronald Epstein, professor of family medicine, psychiatry, and oncology at the University of Rochester. Even the word sounds slightly out of place in modern medicine, though Epstein says it’s more relevant than ever. Suffering tends to be seen as an end-of-life occurrence, […]
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Artists transform Lyric Theatre space
A group of regional artists will temporarily
transform the former Sunday school space located in the back of what is now Lyric Theatre.
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See for yourself
When many of us travel, we are ushered around carefully preened and planned channels that brush against but never penetrate the world known by the locals. And the exotic versions of the place offered to visitors are rarely experienced by the actual residents. This is the consideration behind Barbadian artist Ewan Atkinson’s “The Neighbourhood Project.” […]
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UR assessing campus climate
University of Rochester President Joel Seligman has formed a commission on race and diversity “to address the broader questions of how we best can create an environment that is safe, supportive and welcoming for all in our community,” he said in a statement. The commission will by the end of January 2016 provide Seligman with […]
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Coming soon: HIV shots?
One of the more daunting challenges of managing HIV is properly taking the daily regimen of one to five pills. But that could soon be in the past. The results of an experimental treatment, which appear in the journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, could mean that patients get an infrequent injection to stop the […]
