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New paid internship program helps URochester students launch careers
This summer’s inaugural Hire Rochester undergraduates are building skills, confidence, and professional connections.

Beyond the pitch: The World Cup as world history
A URochester expert unpacks the history, identity, migration, fandom, and politics that collide on soccer’s biggest stage

Office hours with Pablo Sierra Silva
The URochester professor, who teaches World History Through Soccer, on the power of primary sources and sport as a window onto society.

Steven Hahn ’73 on America’s illiberal past and present
From eugenics to segregation, the Pulitzer Prize winner says America’s ‘darker impulses’ run deep.

William Hauser, professor emeritus of history, remembered
Hauser was devoted to teaching Japanese and East Asian history over a career of nearly four decades.

Historic Bermuda reshapes our understanding of colonial America
Smithsonian Magazine highlights the role of a Rochester historian and archaeologist in unearthing Bermuda’s colonial origins.

On thinning ice
A pair of Rochester historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.