Posts Tagged global engagement

Beauclaire Mbanya is the third Rochester student or alumnus to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. He will head to Oxford, UK, to pursue a master’s degree relating to sustainable energy.

New federal regulations would make it more difficult for universities and other employers to hire and retain skilled foreign employees to work in the US under H-1B and some legal permanent resident status categories.

The University of Rochester has recently joined with WeWork to provide work and study areas to  undergraduates throughout China who are remote this semester.

The University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Center is instrumental in starting an academic journal for best practices and scientific research on combating gender-based violence in South Asia.

The University reaffirms its unqualified support to its undocumented students and employees who study and work here under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Not every student can go home. More than 700 Rochester undergraduates have been living on the River Campus, in single rooms, since the University closed residence halls for most of the undergraduate population, in late March.

It’s a bittersweet spring for the University’s 2020 Davis Projects for Peace and DAAD RISE winners. Fifteen students were selected for the summer programs, which have been canceled.

The award will allow the physics and astronomy major to pursue a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in the UK beginning this fall.

Experiments conducted in a mine in Japan may hold clues to explain why the matter than makes up the universe escaped annihilation by anti-matter during the Big Bang.

“It’s in our best interest to make sense of the US and Mexico as places that receive and places that send—that goes for both countries,” says associate professor of history Ruben Flores, who will host acclaimed writer Valeria Luiselli in the latest Humanities Center Public Lecture Series.