(Illustration: David Cowles for Rochester Review)

Goal Orientation

In November 2019, I qualified for the US Olympic Team Trials in the women’s marathon. I had a pretty short...

Illustration by David Cowles

Jazz Music Is Protest Music

Jazz was invented by Black artists in the late 1800s as a combination of harmony and rhythmic and soulful expression....

Nick Dicola portrait drawing

Manners of Speaking

Voice coach Nick DiCola ’07 helps actors for stage and screen—as well as automated voices—achieve authenticity in spoken...

Doctor and Vintner

I majored in English at Cornell. Rochester was my top choice for medical school because it had the reputation of...

Tuning in to Sonic Culture

Take out your earbuds and just listen. The world may “look” different, says musicologist Gabrielle Cornish ’13, ’16E (MA). (Illustration:...