A robotic hand with brains
Gripping a pencil is not the same as picking up a baseball, especially for robots, which lack the versatility and...
James Longenbach’s latest book a finalist for award
The National Book Critics Circle has announced that Earthling, a new book of poetry by James Longenbach, the Joseph H....
‘Martin Luther King Jr. was my first American hero’
Four-time Emmy Award-winner Maria Hinojosa says “it’s pretty surreal” to be delivering the MLK Commemorative Address at the University of...
Finding cancer’s fingerprint
Ding and her team are keeping Wilmot Cancer Institute at this leading edge of precision medicine. Working closely with Wilmot’s...
New book explores ‘ethical turn’ of critical theory
The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature (Bloomsbury, 2017), a new book by Robert Doran, a professor of French and comparative literature, examines...
Looking at urban history as a fight for space, power
Chicago, Istanbul, Rome, and Delhi. The students in the 100-level course The City: Contested Spaces take a virtual tour of them all,...
Adapted toys a godsend for kids with special needs
Toys that quiver. Toys that light up and sing. Toys that spit out bubbles. And all of them adapted for...
Students give special needs kids the gift of play
Indeed, “it’s hard not to smile while doing this,” says Rachel Monfredo, a lecturer in chemical engineering at Rochester. Monfredo...
Gateways Music Fest Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant
Gateways Music Festival, in association with the Eastman School of Music, has been awarded a $300,000 grant from The Andrew...
As Phi Beta Kappa turns 241, we honor our own
Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honor society for liberal arts and sciences, celebrates its 241st birthday...