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Twenty-six-year old  safety Stevie Brown would have likely followed up his breakout 2012 season with more of the same outstanding play had he not been sidelined by an ACL tear for the entire 2013 season. There was a variety of reasons why the Giants’ couldn’t quite get a handle on the season (makeshift offensive line, […]

A new study conducted at eight university medical centers, including the UR Medical Center (URMC), has indicated that the antidepressant drug Citalopram may have a calming effect on victims of Alzheimer’s disease. According to Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Care, Research, and Education Program at URMC Anton Porsteinsson M.D., Alzheimer’s patients […]

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The City of Rochester is not perfect. There’s a high crime rate, failed industry, face-biting winters, and a floundering child-education system. The students, who have been living here for at least four years of their life, utilize housing in neighborhoods like the 19th Ward and Mount Hope, drive on the ice-ridden roads, and feel concerned […]

If you were one of the 219.4 million viewers of the recently-completed Sochi Winter Olympics, you probably saw your fair share of breathtaking moments captured on video, recall the heart-pounding rush of a skier or snowboarder rocketing down the mountains of the Aibiga Ridge, camera following close behind as they executed their final maneuvers. But […]

My friend approached me online one day, blabbering about his plans of travel. I was not paying too much attention until I heard him mention the Four Sisters’ Mountain – a four peaked, snow-covered mountain, located in Sichuan Province, China. As a huge fan of traveling and backpacking, I have climbed many mountains, hiking the […]

“College is the best four years of your life.” This is a phrase that most of us have grown up with. It came from our parents when they recounted their glory days at the ol’ alma mater. It made its way into conversations with our teachers as they helped us navigate our college applications. And […]

24 million people in the United States suffer from an eating disorder (ED). 95% of those people are between the ages of 12 and 25. Yet for some reason, our society still has trouble talking about this issue. In conversation, people will avoid the words “eating disorder,” “anorexia,” “bulimia,” and “binging” at all costs. If […]

Sochi. A city which you’ve probably never heard of until only a few months ago but have heard  mentioned a dozens times since. The infamous location for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia has drawn an immense amount of attention, not just because it’s the Winter Olympics, but because of its price, location, lack of […]

I first met Alhassan Omar, a UR freshman and graduate of the African Leadership Academy, at January  Orientation. Just minutes after meeting him, I found myself absorbed in his stories of Egypt Ability, a program that he had created in collaboration with his peers back in his native Egypt. Egypt Ability’s goal is to use […]