Eastman
Women Mean Business draws the curtain on discrimination in music
“I want to get to a place where female composers are regular instead of some special rare thing, where it’s not even a second thought.”
Campus Times
Reaching our potential
There’s a lot to celebrate at CT, but much more work needs to be done on outreach.
Mental Health
Dealing with mental illness in college
It was a Thursday afternoon in creative writing seminar when I wrote, “we’re all time travelers. Jesus split himself into…
architecture
I.M. Pei, Wilson Commons architect, is dead at 102
I.M. Pei, the famed architect who designed the Louvre’s glass pyramid, the John F. Kennedy Library, and the University’s Wilson…
activism
Inside Rochester’s police accountability struggle
In front of Rochester’s City Council on April 16, Phyllis Harmon tearfully opened her neck brace, showing what she says…
News
analysis
Study Abroad or America Abroad?
America has reached an all-time high for the amount of college students sent abroad. In 2001, the government-sponsored Open Doors…
incarceration
Nothing but sky: Decarceration initiative debuts symposium
“If Frederick Douglass were alive today, we think that [he] would be trying to take on mass incarceration, and decarcerate the city of Rochester.”
world
Second Africa business conference explores continent’s potential
Undergraduates, business students, and professionals from UR and RIT gathered on Saturday at the second annual Rochester Africa Business Conference…
Features
Food Trucks
CT Eats: Food, Fun, and Flowers at Lilac Fest
The turkey leg is too big to get your mouth around, and the meat is so tender that you can just tear it off. Felt like Medieval Times. Would recommend.
drugs
From the Archives: UR’s Gates gave morphine its structure
Marshall Gates Jr., a renowned UR chemist, described his morphine synthesis as “by a considerable margin the best and most important work I’ve ever done.”
representation
Want to see gender inequality at UR? Look at the sculptures.
“People we honor seem to be more and more men, white men in particular [...] We have hundreds of women alumni who are super important. Where are they?”
