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Kauffman Entrepeneurial Scholars Kenneth Lotito, Mario Dal Col and Patrick McLaughlin have gathered speakers for the University's first Sustainable Energy Symposium. Lotito, Dal Col and McLaughlin applied for KEY at the Center for Entrepreneurship because of concern about climate change. Lotito, Dal Col and McLaughlin were selected for the tuition-free program for the 2007-08 academic […]

Continuing a tradition that began 25 years ago, Students' Association President and junior Alvin Lomibao delivered the annual State of the Students' Association Address, during which he discussed the SA's specific accomplishments in the last year. Lomibao both acknowledged his predecessors and looked toward his successors during his speech, offering a framework of issues for […]

A team of UR scientists, led by Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Greg DeAngelis, may have just discovered a secret that has long eluded scientists - how a single eye is capable of judging depth. The secret boils down to a small area of the brain, according to DeAngelis and his team in their […]

On Monday, March 24, students alerted Medical Emergency Response Team and emergency services when they assessed that their professor was experiencing medical problems. The professor was transported to Strong Memorial Hospital for treatment, according to UR Security Investigator Daniel Lafferty.Laptop stolen in Gleason HallUniversity Information Technology staff reported that a University laptop was stolen from […]

Let me preface my diatribe by saying that I have not written an article for the Campus Times in three years, for I have not felt the dire urge to speak out publicly against any parochial qualms. With that said, Arun Gandhi's relatively recent statement in the Washington Post's blog and his defense on campus […]

To coincide with the upcoming fifth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, veteran and active-duty members of Iraq Veterans Against the War gave testimony to the atrocities of the invasion and occupation of Iraq from March 13-16 in Washington, D.C. With the exception of the Washington Post, none of the mainstream media outlets mentioned it.The […]

Everyone has the same image stored away somewhere in their head: a multitude of bright and unknown flags ring a stadium packed to half capacity and focused on some mid-level functionary who gives a less-than-impassioned speech about unity and humanity dubbed into English (for me, at least), all while packs of svelte, toned and spandex […]

When I first read Arun Gandhi's words on Washington Post's "On Faith" blog, I hoped that he was ignorant. I hoped that, for his sake, for the sake of his grandfather's legacy, for the sake of the field of the theory of nonviolence and for the sake of my University with whom he was associated, […]

We are writing in regard to the Feb. 28 article on Bill Nye's lecture in Strong Auditorium. It was reported that "Nye ended his speech with the suggestion that each person present reduce his or her greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050."While it is certainly true that every person should try to reduce […]

What do you do when your best friend is told that the only way he can get a visa to study abroad is to drive 10 hours from his home in northern New York State to New York City? You go with him, of course. Over break, my friend Kevin received a call from the […]