The University of Rochester ( U of R or UR ) is often referred to as Rochester , is a private research university in Rochester , New York. Universities provide undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. In its history, 6 university alumni, 2 faculty, and 1 senior researcher at Strong Memorial Hospital have been awarded the Nobel Prize; 32 faculty serve at the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine; 12 alumni and faculty members have won the Pulitzer Prize, and 20 faculty members have been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.
The University of Rochester enrolls approximately 5,600 students and 4,600 graduate students. Its 158 buildings houses over 200 academic majors. In addition, the university is the largest employer in the Greater Rochester area and the largest employer in New York. According to the National Science Foundation ranking of total research and development spending, the University of Rochester spent $ 346 million on R & D by 2016, the highest number of 66 th , nationally.
The University of Rochester is especially famous for the Eastman School of Music, which ranks first among US music schools, due to creative and scholarly contributions from faculty and students. The Sibley Music Library at Eastman is the largest academic music library in North America and holds the third largest collection in the United States. The Simon Business School is ranked 5th in economics and finance by the Financial Times . Faculty Simon was founded and supported three of the highest-ranking journals in economics and finance: Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal . Monetary Economy . The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is highly regarded nationally and has produced vaccines, medicines, deans of four from the US. News & amp; World Report 10 top medical schools, and public health professionals who have saved many lives. Importantly, a medical biopsychosocial model was developed in Rochester, where doctors aimed to treat all patients. The Edward G Miner library stores many important items, including the Nobel Prize of Arthur Kornberg and the text by Andreas Vesalius.
The College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is home to departments and divisions of records. The Institute of Optics was founded in 1929 through grants from Eastman Kodak and Bausch and Lomb as the first US educational program devoted exclusively to optics, rewarding approximately half of all national optical degrees, and is widely regarded as the premier optical program in the country. The Department of Political Science and Economics has made a significant and consistent impact on positivist social science since the 1960s, and has historically ranked in the top 5 in their field. The Chemistry Department is renowned for its contribution to synthetic organic chemistry, including the first laboratory-based morphine synthesis. The Rossell Hope Robbins Library serves as a university resource for Old English and Medieval texts and skills. The university is also home to the Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, a national laboratory supported by the US Department of Energy.
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First Baptist Church of Hamilton was founded in 1796; his leadership then founded the New York State Baptist Education Institution in 1817. From 1819 to 1846, the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution existed as a proto-college to Madison, renamed Colgate, University, and the University of Rochester. The institute exists to train ministers in Baptist traditions, but academic leadership aspires to grant higher degrees and creates a separate college division of theological division.
In 1846, the State of New York granted a charter to the college division of The Hamilton Literary and Theologic Institution, who then sought help from Columbus College in District of Columbia, a fellow Baptist institution in the capital of the young country. From 1846 to 1850, a degree issued by Madison University was awarded by Columbian College, which would become George Washington University. At the urging of John Wilder and the Baptist Education Society, the university was moved to Rochester, New York. However, legal action prevented Madison from moving to Rochester.
In response, disagreeing faculty, students, and guardians defected and departed to Rochester, where they sought new charter for the new university.
Establishment
Individuals important to the academic and financial health of the institute left Madison for Rochester, including Asahel Kendrick. Kendrick, a Greek professor, served as president while a national search was conducted. He changed this role until 1853, when Martin Brewer Anderson of Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts was selected to fill the inaugural post.
The new University of Rochester charter was awarded by the New York State Regent on January 31, 1850. The charter stipulates that the university has $ 100,000 in donations within five years, in which the charter will be reaffirmed. An initial prize of $ 10,000 was pledged by John Wilder, who helped to catalyze significant prizes from individuals and institutions.
Classes begin in November, with approximately 60 enrolled students, including 28 transfers from Madison. From 1850 to 1862, the university is housed in the old United States Hotel in downtown Rochester located on Buffalo Street near Elizabeth Street, today, West Main Street near the I-490 bridge. On a February 1851 visit, Ralph Waldo Emerson said of the university:
'They bought a hotel, once a train station depot, for $ 8,500, turned the dining room into a chapel by setting up a pulpit on one side, making it a Community Hall of Pythologian & amp; spaces to recitations, libraries & amp; apartment professors, all for $ 700 a year. They had brought the professor's omnibus load down from Madison's bag and luggage... called the painter and sent him up the stairs to paint the title "University of Rochester" on the wall, and they had runners on the street to capture students. And they sure will pass the tenth grade when the green beans are ripe. ''
Over the next 10 years, colleges expanded their scope and secured their future through talent development, student organizations, and faculty. Simultaneously, a gift of 8 hectares of farmland from local businessman and congressman Azariah Boody secured the university's first campus, where Anderson Hall was built and dedicated in 1862. Over the next sixty years, Prince Street campus grew further. 17 hectares and was developed to include fraternities houses, dormitories, and academic buildings including Anderson Hall, Sibley Library, Eastman and Carnegie Laboratories, Memorial Art Gallery, and Cutler Union.
20th century
Coeducation
The first female student was accepted in 1900, the result of an effort led by Susan B. Anthony and Helen Barrett Montgomery. During the 1890s, a number of women took classes and laboratories at the university as "visitors" but were not registered officially or their records were included in the college list. President David Jayne Hill allowed the first woman, Helen E. Wilkinson, to enroll as a normal student, even though she was not allowed to graduate or pursue a degree. Thirty-three women enrolled in the first class in 1900, and Ella S. Wilcoxen was the first to receive the title, in 1901. The male students moved to River Campus after completion in 1930 while female students remained on the Prince Street campus until 1955.
Expansion
Great growth took place under the leadership of Benjamin Rush Rhees during the period 1900-1935. During this time, George Eastman became the main donor, giving over $ 50 million to the university during his lifetime. Under the protection of Eastman, Eastman School of Music was founded in 1921. In 1925, on the orders of the General Education Council and with significant support for the families of John D. Rockefeller, George Eastman, and Henry A. Strong, medical and dental schools were created. In the same year, the university awarded a Ph.D.
During World War II, Rochester was one of 131 national colleges and universities that participated in the V-12 Naval Training Program that offered students a path to the Navy's commission. In 1942, the university was invited to join the American Association of Universities as an affiliate member and became a full member in 1944. Between 1946 and 1947, in a well-known uranium experiment researchers at universities injected uranium-234 and uranium-235 into six people for learn how much uranium their kidneys can tolerate before it becomes damaged.
In 1955, separate colleges for men and women were merged into the College and located on the River Campus. In 1958, three new schools were created in engineering, business administration, and education. The Graduate School of Management was named after William E. Simon, former Minister of Finance in 1986. He provided significant funding to the school because of his belief in the school-free market philosophy and grounding in economic analysis.
Financial downgrade and name change controversy
Following the prince prize awarded throughout his life, George Eastman abandoned his entire estate to the university after his death by suicide. This total prize surpassed $ 100 million, before inflation, and, as such, Rochester enjoyed a privileged position among the most blessed universities. During the years of expansion between 1936 and 1976, the financial position of the University of Rochester was ranked third, near the donations of Harvard University and the Permanent Fund of the University of Texas System. Due to the decline in the value of large investments and the lack of diversity of portfolios, the place of universities fell to the top 25 in the late 1980s. At the same time, major major corporate advantages in the city of Rochester began to decline.
In response, the University commissioned research to determine whether the name of the institution should be changed to "Eastman University" or "University of Eastman Rochester". The study concludes that name changes can be useful because the use of place names in titles causes respondents to believe that it is a state university, and because the name "Rochester" links the "outpost and cold". Reports of recent conclusions led to controversy and criticism in the Rochester community. In the end, the name "University of Rochester" is maintained.
Renaissance Plan
In 1995, university president Thomas H. Jackson announced the launch of the "Renaissance Plan" for The College that reduced enrollment from 4,500 to 3,600, creating a more selective admissions process. The plan also revises the undergraduate curriculum significantly, creating the current system with only one required course and only a few distribution requirements, known as a cluster. Part of this plan calls for an end to graduate doctoral studies in chemical engineering, comparative literature, linguistics, and mathematics, most recently met by national criticism. The plan was largely removed and mathematics existed as a postgraduate course to this day.
Twenty-first century
Meliora Challenge
Shortly after taking office, university president Joel Seligman started the private phase of the Meliora Challenge, a $ 1.2 billion capital campaign, in 2005. The campaign achieved its goal by 2015, a year before the campaign was scheduled to close. In 2016, the university announced that the Meliora Challenge had surpassed its target and surpassed $ 1.36 billion. This fund is allocated to support more than 100 new faculty positions and nearly 400 new scholarships.
2017 US Cooperation Commission Opportunity Complaint
On September 1, 2017, a complaint was filed by eight current and former faculty members at the University of Rochester with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Complaints include allegations of sexual harassment/harassment committed by field faculty members and condemnation of the University's administrative response. The university responded publicly that the allegations were thoroughly investigated and could not be proven. Public disclosure of EEOC archiving dominates discussions at regularly scheduled meetings of the City Council and subsequent student protests including campus demonstrations and hunger strikes. In November 2017, hundreds of academics in the field of brain and cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology at other colleges and universities signed an open letter that made their students reluctant to seek admission or work at the university.
In response, the university board announced an independent inquiry into the allegations on September 19 and clarified the scope of the investigation and composition of the committee on September 28, 2017. The council retained Mary Jo White, Senior Chairman of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to lead an investigation scheduled to return their findings by the end of 2017. On January 11, 2018, Debevoise & Plimpton released the report and held a press conference on the findings of an independent investigation. The team found that policies were not violated by individuals covered by the scope of the report; However, significant recommendations were made to encourage the university toward leadership in policy on relationships between faculty, staff, employees, and students.
On the same day as the report's release, university president Joel Seligman announced his previously tendered resignation. This action was accepted by council chairman Danny Wegman, who later tapped Richard Feldman, professor of philosophy, to serve as a temporary president.
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Administration
The university is led by the supervisory board, with Danny Wegman becoming chairman. The Council appoints the university president. Joel Seligman resigned as president in January 2018. Shortly thereafter, former College Dean, Richard Feldman, was appointed as his successor for the interim period before the new president was elected.
Campus
River Campus
The River Campus is located at the bend of the Genesee River about 2 miles (3 km) south of downtown Rochester and covers about 200 hectares (81 ha). This is limited by Bausch & amp; Lomb Riverside Park, a 18 acre (7.3Ã, ha) public park along the east bank of the Genesee River formerly known as the Olmstead River Walk, and Mount Hope Cemetery, where the graves of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass can be found. The River Campus was acquired in the late 1920s from Oak Hill Country Club through a land swap deal arranged in part by Edwin Sage Hubbell and funded largely by George Eastman.
After a period of landscaping, flattening, and construction, the original building of the campus was ordained in 1930 when the first class River Campus Rats was welcomed on Men's campus. The main academic buildings are examples of the Greek Revival style in the architecture of the twentieth-century college. The four main buildings located at Eastman Quadrangle are the Rush Rhees Library at the head, flanked by Morey Hall, Bausch & amp; Lomb Hall, Lattimore Hall, and Dewey Hall. The Rush Rhees Library, an unofficial symbol of the university, is also home to the Hopeman Memorial Carillon, the largest composition in New York State, featuring 50 bells that blend in at a quarter of an hour. During the summer, the carapace has a recital series in which various artists perform in instruments. Only from rectangles, in parallel, is the Strong Auditorium and the Simon Business School with the Antarfa Chapel across from the Library. Bronze Marc Mellon of George Eastman was placed in a rectangle in 2009.
Over the past few decades, other academic buildings have been built south of Eastman Quad, including Gavett Hall (dedicated to Eastman Quad in 1930), Harkness Hall (1946), Hoyt Hall (1962), Hopeman Engineering Building. (1963), and Meliora Hall (1972). The southern part of the River Campus contains the New Science and Engineering Quadrangle: Wilmot Building (1961), Hylan Building (1971), Hutchison Hall (1972), Computer Studies and Library Building of Carlson (1987), Robert B. Goergen Hall for Biomedical Engineering and Optics (2007), and Wegmans Hall became the site of the Goergen Institute for Data Science (2017). LeChase Hall (2013) and Ronald Rettner Hall for Media Arts and Innovation (2013) were added to the north Eastman Quad at Wilson Quadrangle behind Lattimore Hall and Morey Hall, respectively.
Students often gather outside the home during warmer months in various quads. Other student life centers include Todd Union, Frederick Douglass Dining Center, various locations within the Rush Rhees Library, and Wilson Commons, a student union designed by the architectural firm of Pei Pei. Many academic buildings, including the Rush Rhees Library, are connected by a series of tunnels, which are widely used, especially during unfavorable weather. All academic buildings and public areas, as well as residential spaces, have authenticated Wi-Fi internet access.
River Campus is home to a number of student exhibition halls. The AsIs Gallery at Sage Art Center showcases the rotating exhibition of students' work from the studio class at U of R. As the criticism room is being worked on, this exhibition space gives students the opportunity to develop their work in a semi-professional space. Gallery in Art and Music Gallery featuring works by local students and artists in the highly traded Rush Rhees Art and Music Library. Hartnett Gallery , located in Wilson Commons, is a gallery supported by students exhibiting international and professional contemporary artists as well as an annual jury student exhibit. The PAIR is an attachment of the Sage Art Center featuring the long-term exhibits selected by the faculty committee. There is also a Senior Thesis Gallery located at the Sage Arts Center featuring senior undergraduate works.
Medical Campus
The University of Rochester Medical Center ( URMC ) is the premier campus for university and research medical education as well as major patient care facilities. The Medical Center is located adjacent to the River Campus and is dominated by Strong Memorial Hospital, School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building. URMC is also home to the Nursing School and numerous research centers, including the Wilmot Cancer Center, Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences, and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science.
Eastman Music School
Eastman School of Music is located on its own campus in downtown Rochester, which includes residences for students, classrooms and show facilities, and Eastman Theater, a 2,326 seat concert hall that also serves as the main venue of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. The campus also has the Sibley Music Library, which is the largest academic music library in North America, as well as the largest collection of personal music sheets. Students are housed at 100 Gibbs Street, a dormitory built in 1991.
Southern Campus
South Campus is located in Brighton, just south of Rochester. The campus includes Laboratories for Laser Energetics, the National Laboratory of the Department of Energy funded, the Center for Optical Manufacturing, the Optoelectronics and Imaging Center, and the now dead Nuclear Structural Research Laboratory (NSRL). Housing graduate students are also provided at the Whipple Park complex.
Mount Hope Campus
The Mount Hope campus consists of a number of old house houses including the Witmer Family House, which serves as the official residence of the President of the University, and Patrick Barry House, which serves as the official residence of Provost of Univseristy.
Bristol Mountain Observatory
An observatory owned and operated by a university is named in honor of Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, university professor and scientist Eastman Kodak.
Prince Street Campus and Memorial Art Gallery
The university's first permanent campus is located in the former Boody Azariah farm. While a number of buildings still stand including Anderson Hall, Eastman Laboratories, and a number of student dormitories, these buildings have been absorbed by private companies or the Rochester School of Art. The University retains control of several acres of land including land under the Sibley Library (razed), old campus gates, the old Memorial Art Gallery and the new wing, and the Culter Union, a prime example of the 20th-century Gothic Collegiate style of Architecture.
Memorial Art Gallery was founded in 1913 as part of the University of Rochester through a gift from Emily Sibley Watson as a memorial to her son, James George Averell. It was designed by leading American architect firm McKim, Mead, and White and occupies the southern half of the university's Prince Street campus. This is the focal point of the fine arts activities in the region and hosts the biennial Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition and the annual Clothes Festival.
Academics
The University of Rochester's undergraduate enrollment covers approximately 5,800 full-time and approximately 200 part-time students from across the US and over 115 countries. Graduate enrollment covers approximately 3,900 full time and approximately 1,100 part-time graduate students. The university has over 103,000 alumni living and employs nearly 2,300 faculty of mastery lines, with more than 20,000 teaching staff and staff throughout the university and the Strong Health System.
The only required undergraduate course is the first year writing seminar. As a substitute for the core curriculum, the undergraduate courses complete courses in each of the three disciplines: humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students choose majors, consisting of over ten courses, and a group, consisting of three related courses. The learner must ensure that at least one group meets in every discipline; However, both majors and minors are often used to meet these requirements. Students pursuing accredited engineering including biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering and computer or mechanical engineering, are exempt from this system and are only required to have one humanities or social science group.
Rochester offers juniors and seniors the opportunity to apply for full funding for the fifth year of study. These programs include the Fetch Five Scholars and The Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year ( KEY ) Scholarship . "Take-Five" and "Key", as they are known everyday languages, make it possible to study in fields not related to undergraduate majors or pursue innovative entrepreneurial projects with impact on the local area, respectively.
The University further offers a combined number of undergraduate - undergraduate tracks. These include the Rochester Early Medical Scholars (REMS), the Rochester Early Business Scholar (REBS), the Graduate Engineering In Rochester (GEAR), and the Guaranteed Accelerated Degree Accelerated Degree Program. These programs are open to prospective students, who must apply for this before entering university.
Ratings
UR is one of 25 New Ivies in Kaplan/Newsweek 2007 "How to Get into a College Guide." The list of institutions whose student caliber is considered to compete with traditional Ivy League schools. Ranking is based on receiving statistics as well as interviews with administrators, students, faculty, and alumni.
Decrease in the acceptance rate of 2018 is 30%. UR is ranked 34th among national universities and ranked 111th among global universities by US. News & amp; World Report , and 144 by Washington Monthly . School place in Top 10 for staff-to-student ratio.
Doctoral programs for economics and political science have historically ranked fifth in the world in career placements and alumni successes, despite their small size. According to a paper in the Annual Review of Political Science, the University of Rochester launched a revolution of positive political theory and set the rational choice theory as a mainstream in the field of political science. A 2001 study at PS - Political Science & amp; Politics places Rochester first in the country in productivity of PhD alumni, as measured by publications in leading journals tailored to departmental sizes. In 2007, two PS: Political Science & amp; Politics studies the fourth Rochester rating in both graduate placements and quotes from graduate research. Only Harvard University and the University of Rochester occupy the top five positions in graduate placement and publication.
The Eastman School of Music ranks first among music schools in the US. AS. News & amp; World Report also ranked the 38th graduate of Hajim School of Engineering national; In addition, postgraduate programs in political science, international relations, economics, and medical research are ranked 15th, 14th, 22nd, and 31th respectively in the country.
Rochester is a member of the Association of American Universities and enjoys the highest rank of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education for "the highest research activity."
The Rush Rhees Library at The University of Rochester is featured on the cover of "Princeton Review 373 Best Colleges 2011 Edition".
The High Impact Universities Initiative that measures the performance of research rankings of University of Rochester 28 in the world.
Research
The University is consistently among 40 of the world's leading universities and universities in the fields of science, engineering, medical, and other federally funded research, with a total research budget of approximately $ 395 million spread across many departments and research centers, including the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, a laser-based nuclear fusion facility, and extensive research facilities at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Recently, the university has also been involved in a series of new initiatives to expand its programs in biomedical engineering and optics, including the $ 37 million Robert B. Goergen Building for Biomedical and Optics Engineering on River Campus. Other new research initiatives include cancer stem cell programs and the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. UR also has the ninth highest-tech income among US higher education institutions, with $ 46 million paid for commercial rights to technology and university research in 2009. Famous patents include Zoloft and Gardasil. WeBWorK, a web-based system for checking homework and providing direct feedback for students, was developed by University of Rochester Gage and Pizer professors. This system is now used in more than 800 universities and colleges, as well as several secondary and elementary schools. Rochester scientists work in various fields; for example, physicists develop techniques for etching metal surfaces, such as platinum, titanium and brass, with a strong laser, allowing a self-cleaning surface that rejects water droplets and will not rust if it is angled at an angle of 4 degrees; and medical researchers explore how the brain cleans itself of toxic waste during sleep.
Colleges and schools
- College of Arts, Science and Engineering - Undergraduate and graduate programs in a large number of fields. It is the largest university campus with undergraduate and graduate enrollments. The College is divided into two schools: the School of Arts and Science and the School of Engineering and Applied Haji Science. The college is mainly located on the River Campus.
- The Eastman School of Music is a music conservatory offering undergraduate and postgraduate education in a number of areas of music, including composition, theory, and performance.
- Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development is a graduate of a university education school. Located on the River Campus at LeChase Hall.
- The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is a medical and dental school with research and clinical programs. It is located at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
- The School of Nursing is a nursing school. It is also located on the campus of the University of Rochester Medical Center.
- Simon Business School is a business school. It is located on the River Campus.
Student life
The official UR symbol is the university seal, which features a book, which represents art and science, symbols of music, and modified medicinal symbols. The official interest of the university is dandelion, supposedly prolific in the cow pasture that became the second campus of the university.
The university's official mascot is a predatory wasp found throughout Rochester, Yellowjacket. From 1983 to 2008, the yellowjacket mascot was named "URBee." However, when the university redesigned the mascot during the 2007-2008 academic year, the new name was chosen and on February 1, 2008, the school mascot is now known as "Rocky".
The university uses Dandelion Yellow and Rochester Blue as the official color, which is a striking color in the official regalia.
The UR motto is Meliora, which loosely translates to "better" with the connotation of "ever better," the meaning adopted by the university.
The main dome image of the Rush Rhees Library serves as an additional icon for the University of Rochester.
The song most often sung at college events, often led by many school acappella groups, is The Genesee , written by former Rochester Thomas Thackeray student Swinburne (Class 1892). Though less used, the university also has an official Almamater, The Dandelion Yellow .
Student organization
The student body at the University of Rochester is ethnically and socioeconomically diverse. There are over 200 active Associated Students groups recognized on campus, ranging from cultural dance groups to the U of R comedy troupe in Between Lines. Since 1873, the University has regularly printed students' newspapers, the Campus Times . There are also student-run publications, online only, The Rival Rochester . This is a source of opinions, comments, and satire. Some acappella groups play an important role in college life. The YellowJackets competed in Season 3 of NBC's "The Sing-Off" during the fall of 2011, finishing 7th nationally. The Midnight Ramblers is the center of the university admissions video, Remember OUR Name on YouTube. The University of Rochester also has its own radio station, WRUR.
Residences
The majority of undergraduate students in universities live and take classes on River Campus. Underclassmen are generally required to stay on campus while upper class students have the option of staying off campus. Some postgraduate housing is provided by universities, but large numbers also live off campus. Housing is provided in several locations spread across several campuses.
Campus River Campus River residences are mainly students, with some graduate students serving as Graduate Head of Citizens (GHRs). Residences include:
- Fraternity Quadrangle consists of nine houses, including seven fraternities (Alpha Delta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Theta Chi) ; In addition, two groups of housing with special interests - Douglass Leadership House and Drama House - maintain housing here.
- New Housing - Consist of Susan B. Anthony Halls (Gannett, Gates, Hollister, and Morgan), located near Rush Rhees Library, Hoeing Hall, Tiernan Hall, Gilbert Hall and Lovejoy Hall located in Residence Quad. New students live together in this specially designed residence featuring enhanced oversight, regulation and residential-related activities by upscale Dandelions (known as D'Lions) and Freshman Fellows, along with Resident Advisors in residential areas.
- Hill Court - upscale housing comprising of Chambers, Fairchild, Gale, Kendrick, Munro, and Slater's house, which are connected by an underground tunnel. This residential area, opened in 1969, is colloquially known as "Phase" and is the newest residential area on the River Campus before the construction of the Riverview Complex.
- Residence Quad (ResQuad) - Consists of Burton, Lovejoy and Crosby Halls for upperclassmen, as well as Hoeing, Gilbert, Tiernan and Lovejoy Halls for new students. Burton and Crosby are original dormitories on the River Campus, built in 1930, while four others were built in the 1950s. All ResQuad buildings have been completely renovated in the 1990s. (Lovejoy Hall is mostly a class sister but has entered a new student floor due to increased enrollment.)
- River Campus Tower - Consists of O'Brien Hall, and Anderson and Wilder Towers. It houses senior and some groups of Special Interest Groups. The official name for this area is Jackson Court (formerly known as "Founders Court"), but this is only called "Towers" by most students. Built in 1962, they are scheduled to undergo major renovations in the near future. O'Brien Hall is open for students in 2012.
- Southside - Southside consists of the Valentine Tower and deKiewiet, as well as several one-storey home-style "maisonettes," which offer an apartment style inhabited by seniors. His residence is located south of the River Campus near the medical center, but the River River graduate student at home. The campus master plan shows that this complex will eventually be destroyed. [Citation needed]
- Riverview - The only residential complex on the west side of the Genesee River, Riverview opened for the 2008-2009 school year, making it the first addition to campus housing in nearly 40 years. The complex consists of five buildings, which can accommodate up to 400 students. The complex consists of two-to-four fully furnished apartments.
Special interest floors and fraternity floors are also in the dorms. The Special Interest Interest Groups include the Tiernan Project (Burton 2), Delta Upsilon (Wilder 3), Sigma Delta Tau (Wilder 4), Chi Omega (Wilder 5), Kappa Delta (Wilder 6), Intercommunity Living Community (ICLC - Crosby ) 1) Flower Music Floor (MIF - Wilder 9), Computer Flower Floor (CIF - Anderson 3), Anime Interest Floor (AIF - Anderson 7), Alpha Phi (Munro 2), and Greenspace (Burton 1).
Eastman School of Music Campus Housing is provided on the Eastman School of Music campus at Eastman Student Living Center at 100 Gibbs Street in downtown Rochester. The new building opened in 1991 in the northeast corner of Main and Gibbs Streets, replacing the University Avenue dormitory built nearly 70 years earlier. It is a quadrangle of four floors and a 16-story tower that surrounds the beautiful inner courtyard.
URMC and Mount Hope Campuses Student postgraduate fields are provided in some locations near URMC. It should be noted that this facility is also home to choose River Campus, non-traditional students who have been considered too old for traditional housing.
- George Washington Goler's House ( GHS ) is directly adjacent to the URMC base. It is a high-rise apartment building with 321 apartments. It also houses members of the university community, including faculty and staff.
- The University Park ( UPK ) is a two-story building complex that includes 40 studio apartments, 86 one-bedroom apartments, and 80 two-bedroom apartments. The UPK is located near URMC, just across the Southside off Kendrick Road. Graduate students and their families are the main occupants of these apartments, but some non-traditional undergraduate students are placed here who have been considered too old for traditional undergraduate housing on the River Campus. Students who live here usually stay here year-round.
South Campus South Campus has a graduate student housing complex Whipple Park ( WPK ), which has 250 garden apartments and townhouses with plenty of storage space. WPK also has park-like settings with large forest and lawn areas, playgrounds, park areas and low street noise. Some housing is also provided at the River Road complex, which tends to function as an overflow housing for undergraduate and graduate students.
Student Association
The Students' Association (SA) is the main student governance body and covers most of the student groups in the UR. SA is governed by the SA Senate, President and Vice President, all of whom are elected by the student body. The SA president may elect to appoint an advisory cabinet composed of a group of volunteer students. There is also a judicial branch, comprising the All Campus Judicial Council (ACJC), whose members are nominated by the interview committee and approved by the Senate SA. The Senate SA meets weekly and the longest meeting recorded lasts more than 8 hours. The SA offices are located in the Wilson Commons student union.
All student groups must have constitutions, elected officials, and approval of the senate to be acknowledged by the SA and have access to university funds. These funds are awarded annually on a budget submitted to the Association of Association of Student Associations (SAAC) with additional funds available through a special form. All funds from the Student Activity Fee are required.
Athletics
The UR athletic team is called Yellowjackets. They participated in the Third Division of the NCAA and at the University of Athletic Association and Liberty League. One exception to this is the men's squash team, which consistently tops the top 5 in Division I. The university equips men's teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, golf, rowing, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, and tracks and fields. On the women's side, UR sponsors teams in basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, rowing, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Popular club sports include frisbee, rugby, and soccer, all of which have a male and female team. The Men's Rugby Team has enjoyed a recent success, with the New York State Conference Championship in 2011. The team is ranked 9th in the country from 151 Division III teams for the 2011-2012 season. In 2009 women's soccer coach Terry Gurnett scored a record with more than 400 lifelong victories. In March 2010 the women's basketball team made it to the NCAA Final Four.
There are also many intramural clubs and athletic groups.
The university's main athletic facilities are at Robert B. Goergen Athletic Center and Fauver Stadium at River Campus, with other facilities located in the Spurrier (River Campus) and URMC buildings.
Campus and area transportation
UR campuses have their own university-sponsored bus or transport system, which provides free transportation from River Campus to Medical Center, South Campus, Eastman Campus and Riverview. There is also a link between River Campus with local shopping and entertainment in Henrietta and Pittsford. On weekends, there is a shuttle shuttle to Rochester Public Market. Most university-sponsored buses are named using the color system (ie the Red Line) which shows their individual routes and allows for easy identification. Several bus lines of the Rochester-Genesee Transportation Authority (RTS) also stop at the University.
The university participates in the Zipcar program, which allows students to rent a car every hour or every day.
Greater Rochester International Airport is a ten-minute drive west of River Campus. In addition, Amtrak trains and Greyhound buses have stations in downtown Rochester just north of the campus.
Tradition
Rochester observes several year-round traditional events with a diverse history.
Formal academic events
Convocation celebrates the start of the academic year and provides opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to get together. The ceremony was opened with a procession by faculty and administrators in the traditional regalia, featured presentations from the Goergen Awards for undergraduate education contributions, and accompanied by picnics, fair activities and performances.
Commencement is the official end of the academic year. The university community gathered for the grand ceremony of Eastman Quadrangle. Members of the Supervisory Board, President of the University, President of the Senior Class, and a speaker selected by the administration offer comments and suggestions. The degrees are then given at separate ceremonies by schools and departments.
University community weekend
Yellowjacket Weekend follows the Freshman Orientation. With all the students reuniting, this weekend serves as the first official welcome in the autumn semester.
Meliora Weekend combines reunions, class reunions, and family weekends. The event runs from Thursday to Sunday and brings together all campuses through programming and public events. Keynote is given every Saturday morning at Kodak Hall at Eastman School. Past keynote speakers include Amartya Sen, Anderson Cooper, Stephen Colbert, Colin Powell, Sanjay Gupta, Bob Gates, Dorris Kearns Goodwin, former United States President Bill Clinton, and former United States Energy Secretary and Rochester University Steven Chu alumnus.
Winterfest Weekend is a kickoff into the second half and allows students to bask in the snowy summer of Rochester. Highlights of the weekend include comedy shows (previous comedians including Demetri Martin, B.J. Novak and Michael Ian Black), sleigh ride and ice skating.
Dandelion Day , colloquially known as D-Day , is Saturday at the end of the spring semester established as an annual lull around the final exam with a wide, new celebration - recently accompanied by guests of carnival and music. The previous years have featured Super Mash Bros., Reel Big Fish, Eve 6, Talib Kweli, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. OK Go was done in 2010. In 2012, D-Day was moved from Saturday to Friday and has since been renamed the start of Springfest Weekend in an effort by the government to refocus the focus of orgies and debauchery.
Boar's Head Feast
in 1934, people from River Campus held the first Boar's Head Dinner. While the women at Prince Street moved to River Campus in 1955, the show remained single gender until 1971 when the women joined men in the 17th century. This annual party begins at Queen's College Oxford; Variations of University of Rochester on this theme include performances by a cappella university, art circus, and performance group. The student body selects one faculty member each year to tell the story of students and boars. While each narrator takes on their own poetic freedom, the bow is the same: the stubborn pupils in the forest defeat the boar with their calculus textbooks.
Wilson Day
Wilson Day, named for the generous university Joseph C Wilson, is a day of community service for all incoming university students who work in neighborhood picnic environments, voter registration, painting, landscaping, meal services, and other service efforts in the community.
Famous alumni and faculty
List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with the University of Rochester
The University of Rochester has over 103,000 alumni in 2011. Rochester is among its former alumni at the President of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and the University of California, San Francisco (Chancellor), and Dean of Harvard Medical School, Faculty of Medicine Stanford University, UCSF Medical School, Chicago University Public Policy Studies School Irving B. Harris, and other graduate and professional schools. In total, the Dean of four from US. News & amp; World Report 10 educated medical schools in Rochester. 10 percent of undergraduates then get a PhD. Nearly a quarter of the scientists on the NASA advisory board for the James Webb Space Telescope (scheduled to launch in May 2020) are alumni or faculty members.
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See also
- George Eastman House
- Rochester Arboretum University
References
External links
- Official website
- Rochester Athletics website
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