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University News
January 4, 2019 | 09:44 am

Simon School MBA named ‘Program of the Year’ for 2018

The MBA program at the Simon Business School, the only program in the US to offer a STEM designation in every area of specialization, has been named the “Program of the Year” for 2018 by Poets & Quants, a leading online news source covering the graduate business education market.

topics: announcements, featured-post-side, rankings, Simon Business School,
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University News
December 27, 2018 | 12:28 pm

University earns silver ‘Bicycle Friendly’ award

The University has earned its first ever silver award as a bicycle friendly campus from the League of American Bicyclists. Awardees scored high on “Five E’s”—engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation.

topics: awards, Department of Transportation and Parking Management, sustainability,
University News
December 17, 2018 | 09:14 am

Wisconsin Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf named University of Rochester president

Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, an experienced academic leader recognized for her work on issues of academic quality, educational access, and diversity and inclusion at some of the nation’s leading public and private institutions, has been named president of the University of Rochester.

topics: announcements, Sarah Mangelsdorf,
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University News
December 14, 2018 | 02:58 pm

Tanya Bakhmetyeva awarded prize for best Catholic biography

Tanya Bakhmetyeva, associate professor of instruction in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, has received the 2018 Harry C. Koenig Book Prize for Mother of the Church: Sophia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France.

topics: awards, book authors, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,
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University News
December 13, 2018 | 10:32 am

Ethical advisory committee ensures responsible investing

The Ethical Investment Advisory Committee includes three full-time faculty members and three non-faculty members: an undergraduate, a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow, and a non-academic staff member.

topics: announcements, Students' Association, sustainability,
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University News
December 13, 2018 | 09:43 am

Hajim School faculty members honored by ACM, IEEE

The Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) welcome four new fellows from the faculty of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

topics: awards, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiebo Luo, Wendi Heinzelman,
Jim Zavislan stands in front of a optics grinder in Rettner Hall.
University News
December 12, 2018 | 01:29 pm

Jim Zavislan named fellow of National Academy of Inventors

The associate professor of optics holds 63 U.S. and 151 foreign patents and his inventions have helped protect the integrity of the ballot box, preserve great works of art, and assess the damage mobile screens do to our eyes.

topics: awards, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics,
portrait of William Bluhm
University News
December 10, 2018 | 03:39 pm

Remembering political scientist William Bluhm

Colleagues and friends are remembering William (Ted) Bluhm, a political theorist who served on the University faculty for nearly 40 years and whose work on political philosophy and ethics endures.

topics: Department of Political Science, obituaries, School of Arts and Sciences,