Partners play pivotal role in pregnant women’s alcohol use, which affects their babies’ development

A new study by a team of Rochester psychologists and other researchers in the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders finds that partners can directly influence a pregnant mother’s likelihood of drinking alcohol and feeling depressed, which affects their babies’ development. The study highlights the importance of engaging partners in intervention and prevention efforts to help pregnant mothers avoid drinking alcohol.

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Outstanding AS&E dissertations recognized

The Arts, Sciences & Engineering Office of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs recognizes these outstanding dissertations for 2020–21:

• Jiangtao Gu, visual and cultural studies, “A Nation in Prospect: Photography and the Making of Modern China”
• Philippe Lewalle, physics, “Quantum Trajectories and their Extremal–Probability Paths: New Phenomena and Applications”
• Zuheir Desai, political science, “Elections and Voting in Developing Democracies”
• Georgios Alachouzos, chemistry, “Development of the Interrupted halo-Nazarov Reaction Methodology, Computational and Natural Product Synthesis Studies Towards Complex Halocyclopentenes”
• Andrew Kless, history, “Infighting at the Front: Officers, Bureaucrats, and Politicians at War in German-Occupied Russian Poland, 1914–1915”
• Bochen Li, electrical and computer engineering, “Multi-modal Analysis for Music Performances”

Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters at Strong Hospital reopens today

After a long winter pause, the Finger Lakes Coffee stand located on the first floor of Strong Memorial Hospital near the green elevators and the ATM is officially reopening today. Hours are set for 7 to 11 a.m. Monday through Friday; the stand will be offering a limited menu of brewed coffee, espresso-based drinks, and light grab-and-go snacks to start. Additional menu items will be added as business allows. Please continue physical distancing when waiting in line.

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• University’s COVID-19 Resource Center
• Medical Center’s COVID-19 update page
• COVID-19 Concern Report

Add fun, prizes, and healthy habits to your department

Well-U supplies everything for a Departmental Wellness Challenge to build camaraderie this summer. Choose from “Operation Hydration,” “Breathe Deep,” “Move It,” or “30 Days of Gratitude” and make it any length of time that best suits your department’s needs. Email Well-U with questions and complete the Well-U department request form to get started.

Get the story behind suffrage cookbooks

The Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation is a place where you’ll find many items that tell a story. Register here to join Autumn Haag, the department’s assistant director, on Tuesday, June 8, at 3:30 p.m. EDT, for “Creating a Stir,” the story behind suffrage cookbooks. This is the final webinar of a six-part series that has explored the many facets of the virtual exhibit We Want More and We Will Have It: Women Running Rochester. If you missed any of the previous talks, you can find them on the department’s blog.

“The truth is out there,” says Adam Frank, the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Frank appeared on CNN last week talking about the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Find the clip on the University’s Twitter account.