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Grad Student Finds LIS Program Lets Him Combine Personal Passions
Three personal passions drive graduate student Taylor Davis-Van Atta’s pursuits at the University, and they triangulate the path he is carving for his future professional life through the study of librarianship at the School of Information Studies (iSchool). Davis-Van Atta,…
University at Forefront of Creative Industries Management
The University is home to four such programs that are highly interdisciplinary and lead to a master’s degree: the Janklow Arts Leadership Program, the Goldring Arts Journalism Program, the Audio Arts Program and the Graduate Program in Museum Studies.
Photographer Gregory Heisler Settles into a New Career
A few decades ago—when darkrooms and Kodachrome were staples of professional photography—a “hotshot” photographer spoke at the Rochester Institute of Technology about his extremely successful career. In the audience sat an eager young college student who worked up enough courage…
Sarah Scalese Appointed Associate Vice President for University Communications
Sarah Scalese has been named associate vice president for University Communications. In this capacity, she will oversee the University’s Office of News Services, Office of Publications and the Office of Communications in the College of Arts and Sciences. In October,…
2015 Pete Wilson Scholarship Goes to Newhouse Senior
Max Darrow, a senior broadcast and digital journalism major in the Newhouse School, is the recipient of the 2015 Pete Wilson Scholarship. The scholarship, which is given by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), was established in 2007 to…
Film Student Inspired by Human Connection
While attending college in her home country of Romania, Ioana Turcan G’17 befriended a family of cemetery caretakers. A close-knit group, they welcome her for weekend visits and holidays. They are also Roma. Turcan spent a year documenting them for her film.
LHCb’s Pentaquark Discovery Named Top 10 Breakthrough of 2015
A discovery by scientists in the College of Arts and Sciences has been named one of the Top 10 Breakthroughs of the year by Physics World magazine. The Top 10 is chosen by a panel of Physics World editors and…
Crowston, Østerlund Funded for New NSF Citizen Science Project
Two School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members are exploring new ways of combining the efforts of citizen scientists and machine learning algorithms to classify data from a National Science Foundation-funded research initiative called “the most complicated experiment ever undertaken in…
A World of Change Created by Paris Climate Talks
Two College of Engineering and Computer Science faculty members with expertise in climate change and environmental engineering are applauding the recent agreement on a global climate deal reached in Paris, but for separate reasons. President Obama hailed the agreement as…
Listening Session on Diversity and Inclusion Draws Critical Concerns, Ideas for Change
Students, faculty and staff shared their experiences with issues of diversity and their ideas for making a better, more inclusive campus during a listening session Dec. 7 in Goldstein Auditorium. More than 100 members of the University community came together…