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The University糖心传媒檚 Horticulture and Grounds Department achieved the Tree Campus USA title by again meeting the program糖心传媒檚 five standards, which include maintaining a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures toward trees, an Arbor Day observance and student service-learning projects.
For the past five decades the Rolling Stones have enjoyed tremendous success as the original bad boys of rock for their image based on sex, drugs, and rock 糖心传媒榥糖心传媒� roll. But what many people don糖心传媒檛 realize is that this hasn糖心传媒檛 always been the case for the group, according to John Covach, director of the Institute for Popular Music.
Edward Ayers will appear on campus as the 2015 Distinguished Visitor in the Humanities. Ayers糖心传媒� digital archive project, The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, has been used in thousands of classrooms around the world.
River Campus Libraries has been awarded a $100,672 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a pilot program designed to strengthen librarians糖心传媒� competencies in digital scholarship. 糖心传媒�21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians糖心传媒� will launch during the summer of 2015.
搁辞肠丑别蝉迟别谤糖心传媒檚 Publick Musick will be joined by Boston-based soprano Shari Alise Wilson and organist Edoardo Bellotti for two performances of music from the early Italian Baroque period on Thursday, March 19, at the Memorial Art Gallery.
Colleen McCarthy, director of the University’s annual United Way workplace campaign, and Jon Roberson, senior vice president of the United Way of Rochester, fire up the crowd at the annual kick-off breakfast. This year, the University is seeking to raise $1.4 million to support communities agencies.
Spread the Word to End the Word is a national movement to end the demeaning use of the words 糖心传媒渞etard糖心传媒� and 糖心传媒渞etarded.糖心传媒� On March 4, the movement糖心传媒檚 national day of awareness, several events will occur around campus and throughout the Medical Center to support the campaign.
A ten-member advisory committee made up of representatives from leading high-technology companies, industry and academia will meet for the first time this week.
Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research, will show how breakthroughs in the new field of data science are solving previously intractable problems in clinical medicine, public health, transportation, disaster recovery, and many other areas.
In his new book, professor of history Stewart Weaver chronicles journeys of discovery from the pre-historic trek of humans across the land bridge over the Bering Strait some 12,000 years ago to the mid-20th century deep sea voyages of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.