Recent News
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Faculty works: Fall 2026
Seven new books from URochester faculty span Beethoven, bees, and the borderlands.
Office hours with Gourab Ghoshal
The URochester professor on complex systems, the emergence of life and intelligence, and what distinguishes living systems from machines.
Shake Shack’s big cheese
Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch ’99, ’00S (MBA) has built a career reviving restaurant brands by investing in people.
Rethinking power on Lake Kivu
Anthropologist Kristin Doughty’s research shows how a vision of progress can be manipulated by those in power—and who bears those costs.
The methane hunters
How URochester scientists are tracking the elusive greenhouse gas—and why it matters.
First impressions: Rochester Review checked in on the first day of classes
Everyone had somewhere to be, a syllabus to read, and a semester to figure out. We stopped them anyway.
What every American needs to know about voter turnout
Rochester political scientists explain why people do and don’t exercise their right to vote—and the implications of that choice for democracy.