Posts Tagged School of Arts and Sciences

Rochester scientists have secured national funding for a multi-institutional research effort that could alter the basic rules of chemistry.

Funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, “Black Past Lives Matter: Digital Kormantin” builds on history professor Michael Jarvis’s work as part of the Ghana summer field school.

Rochester biologists propose that disrupted interactions between the proteins that closely evolve with the ACE2 receptor may play a role in COVID-19 complications.

Rochester psychologists find that college students who reinterpret their stress response as performance-enhancing are less anxious and generally healthier.

The recently opened Sloan Performing Arts Center on the River Campus gives Rochester’s arts community a new venue to shine.

Will Bridges, Jason Middleton, and Elaine Sia will be honored at an on-campus ceremony in October.

In addition to his research in the field of organic synthesis, Robert K. Boeckman Jr. contributed more than 40 years of service to the University of Rochester.

For Rochester economist Lisa Kahn, whose research focuses primarily on labor economics, the past year and a half has been nothing short of astonishing. She explains why.

Rochester scholars in the humanities and social sciences will study human migration as part of a “temporary research center” supported by a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant.

The accomplished scholar discusses the importance of Black studies as well as his plans to expand the scope of the institute at the University of Rochester and in communities beyond campus.