Sisters overcome poverty, prejudice to become first-generation graduates
Egyptian sisters Yasmin and Ayaa Elgoharry will each graduate from the Warner School with master’s degrees in education leadership, becoming the first in their family to earn college degrees.
Engineering students travel to Dominican school to build clean water system
Engineers Without Borders partners with the Escuela Taller Santa Maria Josefa Rossello school to provide clean drinking water for the more than 400 pre-K-through-8th grade students
Tibet sediments reveal climate patterns from millions of years ago
The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences some of the most extreme weather patterns on Earth, making it an ideal location for Rochester climate scientists to student the complex web of global climate patterns.
Critical Language Scholarship winners to study Turkish, Mandarin Chinese
Daria Lynch ’18 (T5 ’19), a history major, and Christian Wooddell ’17, an anthropology major, will be heading overseas this summer as part of the U.S. State Department program.
Nursing professor appointed to national alliance to improve HIV care in Africa
LaRon Nelson has been selected to serve as a member of the Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance, an initiative of the Center for Global Health Studies at the National Institutes of Health to overcome implementation challenges related to prevention, screening, and treatment.
Hackathon student makes a difference with data for native Tunisia
Anis Kallel ’17 is already working to improve the education system in his home country.
A tale of two Indias
In the early 1990s, Gurgaon was a small city in northern India. Today, it is a financial hub and modern success story. In her new book Landscapes of Accumulation, anthropology professor Llerena Searle says these cities are more–or less–than meets the eye.
President, Provost, and Medical Center CEO statement on immigration orders
Statement from President Joel Seligman, Provost and Senior Vice President for Research Robert L. Clark, and CEO of the Medical Center and UR Medicine, and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Mark Taubman.
Message from Jane Gatewood, Vice Provost for Global Engagement, on recent immigration news
The University continues to monitor developments regarding immigration. An information session open to the everyone in the University community will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 3:30 in Interfaith Chapel.
Far from home, welcoming a new year
This year, the Lunar New Year begins on January 28. The holiday can be bittersweet for some Chinese students away from home. Joy Bian ’17 shares memories of her family’s traditions.