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Ying Quartet brings back a Grammy to Eastman
The Eastman School of Music's string quartet-in-residence, the Ying Quartet, won the Grammy Award for the Best Classical Crossover Album at the 48th annual award ceremony in the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 8. The Ying Quartet collaborated with the Turtle Island String Quartet to create the award-winning album, "4 + Four." The […]
O'Riley blends classical and Radiohead
Pianist Christopher O'Riley graced the Eastman stage with the music of Radiohead and pieces by numerous other artists on Tuesday. O'Riley is best known these days for his variety in the music he plays - varying from heavy metal to classical - and for his eloquence on his National Public Radio talk show "From the […]
Extreme Materials' fill MAG
Until April 9, the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery is displaying a large collection of artwork composed of materials such as animal bones, recycled metal zippers, garden hoses, dollar bills, eggshells, peach pits, pencil shavings and even human hair. Ladies and gents, this is not your average "late Renaissance" art exhibit.As you walk into the large […]
Alumni lectures about Einstein
Iowa State University professor Matthew Stanley '98 visited UR on Wednesday to deliver his lecture "How Einstein Became Famous: Science, Religion and World War I." In it, he consistently emphasized the blurred lines between science and religion."It is tremendously gratifying to be here today," Stanley said. "It is an honor - but a bit nerve-wracking, […]
Quad security plan updated
In response to concerns over personal safety on the Fraternity Quad, a group of administrators, faculty and students met last semester to create new guidelines and reaffirm old ones to ensure that houses and events are secure."After a few incidents transpired involving physical altercations on the Fraternity Quad at the beginning of the fall semester, […]
News Briefs
The International Society for Optical Engineering, SPIE, presented Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering Duncan Moore with a gold medal, their top honor. The award is given annually and meant to recognize outstanding scientific accomplishments in optics, electro-optics, photographic technologies or applications. The honorarium is $10,000.Moore won the honor for his pioneering research […]
SA hosts student-staff forum
A Students' Association-run forum on Wednesday offered the student body an opportunity to raise concerns and questions concerning the UR Bookstore, Dining Services, Facilities, University Parking Office and UR Security. The forum's organizers - SA President Matt Goldblatt and SA Vice-President Katherine DelBalso - both felt that the panel was a worthy and constructive step […]
The fine balance gets lost in cartoon turmoil
A short time ago, a Danish author, Kare Bluitgen, was writing a children's book explaining the story of Islam. It is impossible to tell the story of Islam without talking about Muhammad and he wanted to find someone willing to draw the prophet, but couldn't. Danish illustrators refused to accept the project, censoring themselves, because […]
America hunts for answers
Five days later, it seems like most of the jokes about Cheney's shooting accident have grown old. It could be just because it's old news. It could also be because the humor was lost when Harry Whittington, the man who was injured in the accident, suffered a mild heart attack. It was inarguably funny while […]
It's all Greek to us
Last year, there was a fear that deferring the time that freshman males were allowed to rush, from the fall to the spring, would severely deplete the number of people interested in Greek life. However, with this spring's fraternity and sorority recruitment now completed and the high numbers of those who participated in the recruitment […]
