Posts Tagged Class of 2023

Each year on Match Day, fourth-year medical students across the United States find out where they’ll be spending the next four years for their residencies. At the University of Rochester, tears of joy and cheers of celebration filled the room where the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s Class of 2023 discovered what the future holds. Among them was Indigo Gill, who matched with the University of California–San Francisco for family medicine, surrounded by loved ones, including her father, Saeeda Gill. Learn more about Match Day 2023 at Rochester.

Alumnus Josh Shapiro ’95, the newly inaugurated governor of Pennsylvania, will deliver the 2023 address at the University-wide Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 12.

Julia Granato crisscrossed Europe to study human bone collection and display sites. Now she’s pondering what it means to display and visit human remains.

Stricken with cancer as a teenager, the prodigy used music to heal himself and others.

Created with undergraduates playing major roles, a local exhibit shows how Clarissa Street—once the center of Rochester’s Black community—was destroyed by urban renewal and housing discrimination.

Linnea Wegge (left), Maya Hewitt, and Ian Gillis (right) from the Class of 2023 participate in a curling demonstration during this year’s Winterfest Weekend on the River Campus. The weekend—an annual wintertime tradition for undergraduate students—featured gear giveaways, ice-carving demonstrations, sledding down Danforth Hill, plus plenty of s’mores and hot chocolate. Check out more photos from the weekend on the University’s Instagram account.

Researchers at Rochester and Maryland describe a novel cross-coupling reaction that could lead to a cheaper way to develop chemical compounds for pharmaceuticals.

Growing up in Uruguay Fernanda Sesto ’23 was the only female student in her computer science-focused high school. At Rochester, she plans to continue using technology to tackle issues of social inequality.

Living in a shelter during parts of his high school years, Jafrè Chase ’23E never stopped practicing the viola, and never stopped dreaming and working toward a better life.

For first-generation college student Siera Sadowski ’23, the financial freedom of a Handler Scholarship and the academic freedom of Rochester’s curriculum are opening doors.