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Assistant research professor in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department Elika Bergelson received a $1.25M grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to research language development in babies. “I feel very excited and totally shocked,” Bergelson said of the Early Independence Award. She explained that she did not expect her research in social sciences […]

A new student organization, the Peaceful Protest of the Financial Aid System, formed this summer to question the transparency and sympathy of UR’s Office of Financial Aid. The creation of this group has given rise to controversy over which aspects of the current system can and cannot be controlled by UR. Collaboration with Students for […]

The new Golisano Children’s Hospital, dedicated to making patients and their families comfortable, will be added to Strong Memorial Hospital come 2015. This new addition to the hospital will cost approximately $145 million, a portion of which came from the funding of the Rochester community. The hospital will be 245,000 square feet. Assistant Director for […]

2. On Sept. 18, 2014 at 3:13pm, DPS officers responded to a report of a suspicious female inside the bookstore. Staff advised that the female had also been acting suspiciously in the Med Center store the day before. When officers entered the bookstore, the female headed for the exit doors. Officers approached the female, identified […]

UR Public Safety has implemented a new Adopt-A-Hall program in order to “bridge the gap between students and public safety”, according to Public Safety Lieutenant Bill List, who was instrumental in the program’s conception and execution. The Adopt-A-Hall Program assigns each residential hall its own Public Safety officer, providing Residential Advisors (RAs) and residents with […]

Peta2, the youth division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) teamed up with the Student Association for Vegan and Vegetarian Youth (SAVVY) this Monday, April 21 and Tuesday, April 22 to portray the environment of a factory farm with the “Glass Wall” exhibit. Peta2 set up a 20 by 30 foot tent […]

The construction of a new visualization technology center in the lower level of Carlson Library called the VISTA Collaboratory began April 1. VISTA stands for Visualization-Innovation-Science-Technology-Application. According to Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation (HSCCI) David Topham, who has been leading the development of the VISTA Collaboratory, the […]

UR’s Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) placed first overall in a Drill and Athletics competition at Villanova University on Saturday, April 5. Each year, the University’s NROTC unit competes in a Cornell University invitational and a Villanova University competition. Last semester, UR came in first place overall at Cornell as well. This is the […]

The Students’ Association (SA) formed the new Academics Committee in a motion on Monday, March 24, in an effort to promote greater student participation in academic planning and provide a more consolidated focus on academically relevant goals. Junior and current SA senator Mehr Kashyap will serve as the chair of the Academics Committee. SA President […]

On Tuesday, April 1, UR President Joel Seligman announced The Wegman Family Charitable Foundation made a $10 million gift to the University’s Institute for Data Science and a $7 million gift to support the Golisano Children’s Hospital. This represents the fourth largest contribution to the University’s Meliora Challenge Campaign and the second largest gift to […]