Silence and sound: The perfect timing to preserve hearing

A combination of sound and silence may be a key in helping slow the progression of permanent hearing loss. Medical Center researchers found intermittent broadband sound played over an extended period of time preserved sensory cells in the ear, while also rewiring part of the central auditory system in the brain, helping preserve the ability to sense the timing of sounds.

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Plagiarism detection software available

The University is offering iThenticate, plagiarism detection software, to all University faculty. This is the same software used by the US Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation, as well as all of the major research journals. Faculty can register for an account online. Once your account has been established—you will receive a confirmation email within two business days—you can upload funding applications and research papers for comparison to more than 72 billion active and historical archived websites, 165 million offline publication articles, and several major library networks. Email iThenticate@rochester.edu with questions.

Detecting academic dishonesty for faculty and teaching staff in AS&E

A reminder to faculty and teaching staff in AS&E that when it comes to detecting and reporting academic dishonesty, it is important to understand what resources are available within the College and to use them only for their intended purpose. While instructors and graduate students may use iThenticate to review their own writing (for instance, when preparing a manuscript for publication), they should not use it to check student writing for plagiarism in the context of any courses they teach in AS&E.

Instructors, graduate teaching assistants, and others with questions about determining the originality of students’ work should consult Greer Murphy, the College’s academic honesty liaison, at honestyliaison@ur.rochester.edu.

Information about additional resources instructors in the College can use to support students’ honest completion of work, and about additional responsibilities instructors have under the AS&E academic honesty policy, can be found on the AS&E academic honesty website.

‘Going for Baroque’ returns

Included with admission to the Memorial Art Gallery, “Going for Baroque” is a weekly series of mini recitals that offers students from the Eastman School of Music the opportunity to perform alongside professional musicians on the Italian Baroque organ on the second floor of the museum. The concerts are held every Sunday at 1:30 and 3 p.m. EDT beginning this weekend.

While Donald Clay was inside receiving cancer treatment earlier this summer at the Ann and Carl Myers Cancer Center at Noyes Health, his wife and daughters decorated the sidewalks outside with chalk. “Patients walk on it and bring happiness into the building, and then when they come out they take happiness home,” they shared.

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