Iconic Imagery of Jeff Roberts ’68
A collection of images that captures the University of the late 1960s—student strikes, freshman week, and a range of other...
A Lifetime as a Leader
Ruth Lawrence ’49M (MD) A trailblazing pediatrician, a Medical Center physician says she “hit the jackpot” in life. Ruth Lawrence...
Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education: Did We Learn the Wrong Lesson?
In the early 1960s, Theresa Canada ’76, ’89W (EdD) was a student in elementary school in Central Harlem, where she...
Teaching and Learning about American Indians
There’s a lot of debate in the country, and I think it’s getting especially heated now, about whose history is...
Jonathan Foster ’59
Around the world, alumni, parents, and friends gather together to celebrate, learn, and create new connections. Sometimes we get to...
How’s That Again?
Rochester students acquire a specific lingo that becomes ingrained in their everyday conversations, and, eventually, the vocabulary becomes part of...
12 surprising facts about campus spaces
Did you know there’s a wash tub hanging from the ceiling at Kodak Hall? Or that Frank Sinatra sang here...
Four years on campus, a lifetime of friendship
For 62 years, about a dozen “City Girls” have been getting together just about every month. At first, they met...
U of R, U of R, ’68!
While many of the historic events and cultural moments of 1968 continue to resonate in American social and political life,...
Requiem for a civic monument
Chicago public housing and its troubles have been a journalistic focal point for decades, generating a slew of news coverage,...