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URMC's $100 million campaign underway

The UR Medical Center has launched a $100 million capital campaign to build a new children's hospital and drive research in seven key areas. Read More

Student-led initiative questions smoking policy

A student led initiative is discussing the feasibility of creating a smoke-free campus after a UR student survey indicated that a majority of students believe that smoking policies need to be reformed. Read More

UR honored for outreach to Hispanic students

UR was named college of the year by the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) for its inclusion of students enrolled in NHI programs. Read More

UR homepage evolving into new era of design development

University Communications began the beta period for the new design of UR's homepage on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Read More

Towers construction powers through delays

Construction on the new residence hall near Towers experienced slight delays this fall, but Residential Life says that the setbacks should not impact students or the overall progress of the project. Read More

UR digitizes collection of AIDS posters to spread awareness

UR's Rare Books Library has digitized a collection of 6,200 AIDS awareness posters to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the identification of AIDS as a disease. Read More

Campus/In Rochester Briefs

Fiction award goes to Native American writer The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at UR has awarded the 2011 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize to author Linda LeGarde Grover for her debut short story collection “The Dance Boots.” Grover, a professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, was presented […]

Peeping Tom arrested for trespassing

Your weekly dose of repeat offenders and disappearing cell phones. Read More

UR to drop Courage Bowl, refocus on conference schedule

UR has decided that it will only play one more game of the annual Camp Good Days Courage Bowl-in 2012-before discontinuing participation in the charitable event to focus on the Liberty League schedule. Read More

The party could be barred: Misconduct prompts discussion on policy, future status of bar nights at UR

Due to the increasingly disruptive tendency of bar nights, UR is considering revising its policies. Read More