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New commencement speaker unveiled after student feedback

Often beginning more than a year in advance, the meticulous planning for finding a commencement speaker is what often helps make the speech the highlight of students’ and families’ graduation experience. The quality of this year’s speaker is no different, with the University announcing that Jeannine Shao Collins ’86 will be delivering the school’s 176th […]

$10 million Gift Establishes Fund for Deanship

The Deanship of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has a new name in the wake of a $10 million donation from University Trustee Emeritus John Bruning ’24 (Honorary) and Barbara Bruning. The donation is intended to establish permanent funding for the position, according to a University News release. Named Dean in 2016, […]

Debunking the Debranding

We are not “change-averse”: we simply desire ever better change. Read More

On the responsibility of advertising

We cannot responsibly serve our audience while acting as a mouthpiece for something that has the potential to cause our readers harm. Read More

UR settles lawsuit: partial tuition reimbursement offered to some students

Carstairs alleged that the University failed to provide its promised thirty additional hours of out-of-class student work per credit hour to students taking online classes during the pandemic. Read More

UR Softball continues dominance with sweeps of Alfred University and Ithaca College

The Yellowjackets swept Alfred University on the road Thursday, winning both games by a score of 5–4. Read More

UR Womens’ Lacrosse trounces Nazareth 17-5

UR’s Womens’ Lacrosse team beat Nazareth University 17–5 on Tuesday at Fauver Stadium. Read More

UR Baseball beats Hamilton and RIT

Yellowjackets baseball beat Hamilton College on Tuesday and RIT on Friday to the scores of 11–4 and 7–4, respectively. Read More

Inside the planning process behind UR’s first sustainability plan

In 2019, Murphy and a small group of other students formed UR Students for a Climate Action Plan (URCAP) to push UR to follow its peers’ lead and adopt an urgently needed climate plan. Though student-driven, URCAP wasn’t affiliated with the University in any official capacity. Read More

Students react to SA’s latest statement

The aim of this email, as stated in the opening paragraph, was to “clear up some misconceptions/share some important answers to [common] questions.” Read More