Nick Lind’14W (MS), a special education teacher at BOCES in Rochester, holds an advanced certificate in digitally-rich teaching from Warner. He incorporates technology into his lesson plans to help his students grasp concepts and get excited about them. “With a technology-based lesson, I can put...
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A recent $1 million estate commitment from Alan E. Curle, MD, an anesthesiologist at Highland Hospital, will establish an unrestricted scholarship at the Eastman School of Music. Curle grew up in Tennessee, where music played a key role from an early age. He sang in...
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A recent $1 million estate commitment from Alan E. Curle, MD, an anesthesiologist at Highland Hospital, will establish an unrestricted scholarship at the Eastman School of Music. A deep appreciation and passion for music prompted this gift. A commitment to education also served as a...
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The family of Louise and Bob Slaughter has recently agreed to donate the Honorable Louise M. Slaughter’s official Congressional papers to the University of Rochester. The River Campus Libraries’ Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation will house, archive, and make available the Louise...
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A recent gift from two University of Rochester alumni establishes the Paul J. Burgett Distinguished Professorship at the Eastman School of Music. This endowed fund honors the legacy of Paul Burgett ’68E, ’72E (MA), ’76E (PhD), one of the University’s most recognized citizens. It also...
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John Green, a PhD candidate in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, is fascinated by history. As part of his graduate work, Green gained experience exploring extensive library archives during his research of John Cage, a 20th century American composer. He sifted through Cage’s...
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Joseph C. Wilson is a Rochester legend—a brilliant industrialist who transformed a small photographic paper company into the Xerox Corporation. He was a highly civic-minded entrepreneur, too, embodying a compassion and a charisma that still ripples through the Rochester community....
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Every year, University of Rochester Trustee Bernard (Bernie) T. Ferrari ’70, ‘74M (MD) spends 30 minutes with David. Michelangelo’s David, that is. He halts there and looks up in wonder at this eloquently cut 5.5 meters of block marble at the Accademia Gallery in Florence,...
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A recent gift from University of Rochester Trustee Bernard T. Ferrari ’70, ’74M (MD) and his wife, Linda, establishes the President’s Ferrari Humanities Award. This endowed fund provides a $25,000 annual award—in perpetuity—to promote and support humanities research among tenured and tenure-track faculty across Arts,...
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Tom Foster ’88 (MA), ’90 (PhD), a University of Rochester professor, recently established a fund to honor his late wife, Julietta Wolf-Foster, and to support Wilmot’s cancer patients. It’s a gift that will last forever....
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