A volunteer, pictured, who helped pass around clipboards and chatted with attendees stands to listens to the speakers.



A volunteer, pictured, who helped pass around clipboards and chatted with attendees stands to listens to the speakers.

URochester’s annual Senior Week always features a full lineup of celebrations for the graduates leading up to Commencement. The contemporary week-long fun is deeply embedded in the history of URochester culture, even though Senior Week and Commencement traditions have changed dramatically over time. Read More

A volunteer, pictured, who helped pass around clipboards and chatted with attendees stands to listens to the speakers.

As recently as the early 2010s, it was standard practice for surgeons to provide 30 to 40 or more opioid pills for common, minimally invasive procedures. Most of these pills, however, would remain untouched, left over in the patient’s medical cabinet or kitchen pantries for potential misuse. A team of researchers led by URMC’s Dr. Jacob Moalem set out to reduce these opioid overprescriptions. Read More

A volunteer, pictured, who helped pass around clipboards and chatted with attendees stands to listens to the speakers.

In anticipation of 2026’s graduation ceremony, the Campus Times conducted an interview with upcoming Commencement speaker Jeannine Shao Collins ’86. Collins, who earned a bachelor's degree in economics from URochester, currently works as the Chief Client Officer at Kargo: a multiplatform advertising and media company. Read More