awards

For the first time, two teams of University of Rochester students have been selected for the highly competitive national program that promotes peace and intercultural understanding.

Seven University of Rochester students are heading to Kenya, Belgium, Malaysia, South Korea, Laos, Russia, and Brazil as 2018-19 Fulbright scholars.

Rochester’s latest members of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society will be formally inducted in a noon ceremony on Saturday.

Four undergraduates and two graduate students have been selected to receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, providing support for US students pursuing graduate degrees in STEM fields.

Each spring the University celebrates the outstanding staff members who have demonstrated significant and longstanding contributions to the University with the Witmer Awards, Meliora Awards, and Community Service Awards.

Two University of Rochester faculty members will be in India next fall, and a third will be in London after receiving Fulbright Scholar awards.

The associate professor of anthropology is one of 31 scholars in the humanities or social sciences to be awarded the prestigious honor, which will support his research exploring the revival of religion in China.

Luke Meyerson ’18 and Blake Harriman ’16, ’18W (MS) — student workers in the Department of Political Science and the Medical Center's Edward G. Miner Library, respectively — are 2018 student employees of the year.

With 12 years on the faculty, the associate professor of chemistry is being widely praised by his former students for his role in their current success as scientists.

Sixteen University of Rochester students, the largest contingent from North America, will work at German research institutes this summer through the highly competitive DAAD RISE scholarship program.