Premiering: The Rochester Plays
Set on a snowy inner-city street during a time of blizzard, a young single mother embarks on a friendship with an ex-con and with a reclusive welfare recipient looking to overcome his addictions.
An Urban App to Slow You Down
“Indeterminate Hikes” encourages users to focus on their environment in unexpected ways, via an app developed by a faculty art professor and a sustainability writer.
A Presidential Voice
Just in time for President Barack Obama’s inaugural address on Monday, Jan. 21, the University of Rochester will open an exhibit on the history of presidential speechwriting.
Kenneth Gross Receives Award for Dramatic Criticism
Kenneth Gross, Renaissance scholar and professor of English at the University of Rochester, will share the 2011-2012 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for his book Puppet: An Essay…
Everybody Talkin’ ‘Bout Pop Music
From rock ‘n’ roll to pop and hip hop, popular music may be, well, popular. But it is rarely understood as a musical form. Now that’s about to change. The new Institute for Popular Music, led by founding director John Covach, will treat the study of popular genres as seriously as classical music.
NEA Grant Translates into Support for Open Letter
Selected from a pool of 1,509, the press was awarded $45,000 to support the promotion of books in translation and the continuation of the translation centric website, Three Percent.
Growing World’s Largest Collection of AIDS Posters
To mark World AIDS Day on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, more than 1,000 new posters from one of the world’s largest AIDS education poster collections have been digitized and put online by archivists at the University of Rochester.
Poet Jennifer Grotz Receives Lillian Fairchild Award
Grotz’s second selection of poems, The Needle, “is one of the most affecting poetic explorations of locale and loss that I know,” says English department chair John Michael.
Project Explores Role of Observation in the Arts and Sciences
Do you see what they saw? Speakers explore the link between the observation process in the sciences and the humanities in this series.
Celebrate International Home Movie Day
Free and open to the public, the event provides an opportunity for communities to experience these personal records of the past and learn how to preserve them for the future.