Mike Birbiglia

The more smut you read, the easier it becomes to reconcile the normal and the absurd. This trend line, or reconciliation, can provide a really good concept of what healthy and realistic sex looks like. Read More

We teach the Dust Bowl as a cautionary tale. In every American history class, we learn how farmers in the 1920s and 1930s tore up millions of acres of native grassland across the Great Plains to plant wheat, how the deep-rooted prairie grasses that held the soil and trapped moisture were replaced by shallow crops and bare fields, and, when drought came in 1930, how the exposed topsoil turned to dust. Read More

The Gorbunova-Seluanov Lab, led by URochester’s Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology and Medicine Vera Gorbunova, as well as Dean’s Professor of Biology and Medicine Andrei Seluanov, studies the molecular and genetic processes behind aging in different mammals, as this class of animals provides more insight on human aging and health.  Read More