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CT Cooks: Baking bad to baking bread, Part 2

Hey everybody, it’s Jane, covering this week’s CT Cooks for Adina Goldstein. Welcome to the finale of a two part series about an addicting and old carbohydrate — bread! Today’s recipe is a simple, hard to mess up, no-knead yeasted bread that doesn’t require any fancy starters, special flours, or kneading. It’s definitely not artisanal […]

From the Archives: The pig and the dropout

When Walter R. Brooks started at UR for college in 1904, it seemed like he was unhappily on track to go from there to medical school, and then become a doctor.  But he’d never graduate UR and, in a few years he’d drop out of medical school altogether.  Brooks would not become a doctor. Instead, […]

CT Cooks: Baking bad to breaking bread, Part 1

Hey everybody, it’s Jane, covering this week’s CT Cooks for Adina Goldstein. Welcome to a two part series about that good hot stuff we call bread! Bread is really old.  Like, 30,000 years old.  Like, “there’s an entire Wikipedia article about the history of bread” old. Entire human societies were built on the stuff. Revolutions have […]

UR Snapshots Vol.13: Managing academics from home

The end of the school year is coming up, and that means exams, projects, essays, and everything else stressful. We asked students how they’re managing their academics from home as we buckle down for finals.  Read More

Student t-shirt sales raise hundreds for coronavirus relief

Like many organizations that are creating programs, or modifying existing ones, UTees is helping fight the pandemic through donations. Now, we all attend the same school, and have the tee shirts to prove it. Read More

Food Pantry open to all UR students

For students still in Rochester, the Food Pantry is in full swing. In the first floor of Wilson Commons, the Pantry is stocked with free canned goods, dry goods, and other nonperishables. During normal operations, the Pantry is only open to students in the College of Arts, Science and Engineering, but in the face of […]
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UR religious communities keep traditions remotely

Holy Week and Passover are traditionally times that bring communities together, but how do people come together in a time of social distancing?  Read More

UR Snapshots Vol.12: Revisiting old hobbies

People have found a host of new ways to keep themselves busy and entertained while homebound. We asked our UR peers about any new or regained hobbies. Read More

Research at Rochester: Kazemi examines the problem of human-caused methane

Scientists like senior Roxana Kazemi have been studying the damage that methane has caused on the environmental forefront. Read More

CT Cooks: a lentil versatility primer

Everyone is telling you to stock up on non-perishable foods. In a panic-stricken moment at Wegmans, you grab that giant bag of lentils.  “I’ll figure out what to make with these later,” you think as you hoist them into your cart. Now, they sit in your pantry and mock you.  Say no more. I’ve laid […]