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Professor Daven Presgraves and Research Assistant J.P. Masly believe that they have proved a controversial evolutionary theory that credits the X chromosome with stopping the process of speciation.Presgrave's research involved mating two species of fruit flies (genus Drosophilia) through 15 generations, carefully tracking genes that translate into infertility among male hybrids. The team showed that […]

Last Thursday, Oct. 11, in a preliminary hearing, U.S. District Court Judge David Larmier ordered an injunction that requires the University to allow sophomore Deborah Stamm to keep her service dog, Sid, with her until the case has been settled in court. Stamm initially began negotiating with the University in August, claiming that she needed […]

UR is made up of many campuses spread throughout the city, which creates a unique need for a personalized and dependable busing system for students who commute from campus to campus. Last year, the University announced it was replacing Regional Transit Service, a city bus service, with First Transit, a private company that specializes in […]

The new Interdisciplinary Fund, to be implemented in July 2008, will provide a $250,000 grant to support research that spans across academic departments. The money will be taken solely from the Presidential Venture Fund and other extra-departmental resources, and it will be administered by Provost Ralph Kuncl.As a research university, it is important that our […]

This past Friday, to the delight of the environmental awareness community and the dismay of his political opponents, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize.As conservative pundits rhetorically ask what he has done to deserve this award, I ask: what has he done to deserve this treatment?Gore has made environmental protection a centerpiece issue throughout […]

Ever since I first started thinking about college, I knew that I wanted to live on a campus near a major city. I wanted to find the excitement of city life and experience the unique culture that can't be found at a rural college. Now, Rochester may not be Boston or New York City, but […]

On Oct. 11, UR President Joel Seligman sent a letter to the UR community announcing the creation of an Interdisciplinary Fund that will go into effect on July 1, 2008. Administered by Provost Ralph Kuncl, the fund will allocate two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to promote faculty research among multidisciplinary fields. The […]

On Oct. 10, UR President Joel Seligman hosted a Town Hall meeting to address issues and answer questions.He opened with concern over the death of Latasha Shaw, an employee in UR Dining Services. Shaw was fatally stabbed Sept. 29 while breaking up a fight."The death of Latasha tears my heart out," Seligman said. "She was […]

Political Science Professor Randall Stone delivered a lecture on the Cold War to a crowd in the Welles-Brown room of Rush Rhees Library on Wednesday night. The theme of Stone's lecture, entitled "The Cold War as History," asked: What important lessons should post-Civil War generations draw from the experiences of the Cold War?"The Cold War […]

It is time for bold change. As I watch us wade through what is possibly the longest election cycle in history, I wonder if the newly added length is adding to the scrutiny with which voters are viewing our next president or reducing it. The obvious assumption is that a longer election cycle, like the […]