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Residents of the Graduate Living Center are deciding the future name of their buildings, and will vote on a new name in the near future. Among the top proposed names at this time is "Southside," the buildings' previous appellation."We are looking for a new name because the community is no longer exclusively composed of graduate […]

The UR women's basketball team took a three-day road trip to the Midwest this past weekend for two University Athletic Association games against national powerhouses.On Friday, the women traveled to St. Louis to take on the league-leading Washington University, ranked third in the nation by d3hoops.com. The Yellowjackets' shooting touch must have boarded a river […]

Four UR students performed "The Power of Dance" last Tuesday at the Rochester City School District's Dr. Charles T. Lunsford School No. 19 to kick off Project CARE - Coaches and Role Models for Empowerment."We have been working with the school district for over a year to get the Project Care in place, Dean of […]

The semester-long Southside Olympiad has begun, pitting the deKiewiet and Valentine Towers Residence Halls against each other in academic and athletic competition to foster pride in Graduate Living Center housing.The goal of the games is to initiate a greater sense of community in the two towers. Residents report that GLC is often sorely lacking in […]

Associate Pharmacology and Physiology Professor Alan Smrcka and Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor James McGrath recently received the first two $100,000 grants from the Discovery Concept Fund.The fund is a program developed as the fruit of a partnership between Johnson & Johnson and the UR Medical Center.As scientific funding becomes more and more difficult to come […]

Martin Luther King III delivered the fifth annual "Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Address" at Strong Auditorium last Friday, honoring his father's legacy as a civil rights leader. The speech was the pinnacle of a week-long celebration of diversity that included a leadership retreat, a charity basketball tournament, a multi-faith celebration, a film-screening and various […]

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship in America, named Dean of the College William Scott Green to its newly-formed Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education this month."Entrepreneurship draws from and applies to all disciplines," Green said.For the last year, Green has been teaching a 200-level course at UR […]

UR is now the largest employer in the Rochester area, surpassing the Eastman Kodak Co. as the imaging company's employment dropped to its lowest level in 70 years. Kodak has long held the position as the region's largest employer, once maintaining a local work force of over 50,000. Kodak now employs 14,100 full-time employees in […]

On Monday, the 2009 class council kicked off Spirit Week on the River campus. The week is meant to bolster school pride throughout the campus."It's hosted by the freshmen class the week leading into Winter Fest," Class of 2009 Publicity Chairman Nathan Daneck said. "It's a great way to unite our fellow freshmen while having […]

Officers were summoned to Gilbert Hall to free trapped residents from a restroom at 10:30 p.m. on Sat., according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.After responding to the call, officers found the restroom door damaged and stuck as the result of a passerby's kick. After freeing the restroom's occupants, officers identified the door assailant as […]