University of Rochester student Isthier Chaudhury prepares to take a seat onstage for the “100,000 Strong” China study abroad initiative event with first lady Michelle Obama at Howard University in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)



Isthier Chaudhury

With the increase in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity across the United States, student groups on campus and members of the community are responding with efforts to comfort, inform, and mobilize Rochesterians.  Read More

Isthier Chaudhury

The artist (in the truest sense of the word) described her album in a press release in October as an “emotional arc of feminine mystique, transformation, and transcendence,” and that is what one experiences upon listening. Read More

Isthier Chaudhury

At my home university, and at most universities in the U.K., we have to cook for ourselves because we have access to kitchens that are more than tiny boxes with tiny ovens and stovetops. Read More