University of Rochester

New York Giants head coach and class of '97 alum Brian Daboll is featured in the new HBO series "Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants" that follows the NFL team as they prepare for their highly anticipated 100th season. We know what we're watching every Tuesday night.

OPENING DAY! Our area’s first-ever walk-in mental health clinic for young people is now open. Take a quick virtual tour ⤵️

In his new book, “Partisan Hostility and American Democracy: Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter,” Rochester political scientist James Druckman argues that negative rhetoric has changed how both elites and average citizens—including his own students—talk about and engage in politics, even as “the perception of the divide in this country is greater than the divide itself. Those perceptions dwarf the actual divides.”

FREE CONCERTS 🎶 The Hopeman Memorial Carillon is one of only four carillons in upstate New York, and every Wednesday in July carillonneurs from around the world will come to Rochester to play this unique instrument. The carillon bells will ring across the quad starting at 6:30pm. The public is invited—bring seating, friends, and a picnic—all concerts are open-air and accessible. For those not in Rochester, you can catch the livestream from inside the carillon cabin on the Hopeman Carillon Facebook page (https://lnkd.in/e-jSZcyu).

Meet Melbot V3. Standing just two and a half feet tall, Melbot is made primarily of aluminum and plastic, held together by nuts and bolts...and love. A team of 20 Rochester engineering undergraduates recently designed this mini robot for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lunabotics Challenge—a university-based, yearlong event. The program has robots tasked with driving, digging, and depositing regolith—the fragmented rock material that covers the moon’s surface—in a lunar simulant at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. “Melbot was a total team effort,” says Alex Saunders ’25, a mechanical engineering major. “We’re very proud of our robot.” Congratulations team! More about the team's bot building: https://uofr.us/3VWv2Lb

The Eastman Performing Arts Medicine Center is a newly designated center at the University that blends music, arts, health care, and research to advance healing. The transdisciplinary center synthesizes the resources and artistic expertise of the world-renowned Eastman School of Music with cutting-edge treatments and scientific research at University of Rochester Medical Center. “I am so pleased that the University of Rochester has named Eastman Performing Arts Medicine as an official center. This designation supports the incredible work, research, and success accomplished since the initiative began in 2019, as well as the continued impact on a national and international level that the center is sure to achieve,” says Jamal Rossi, the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music.

We're excited to share that the NY SMART I-Corridor Tech Hub, of which the University of Rochester is a lead partner, was selected as one of only 12 national Tech Hub award winners and is receiving $40 million in funding from the US Economic Development Administration to elevate the burgeoning semiconductor industry in Upstate New York. “I firmly believe that no region has more momentum as a center for innovation-led growth, and this funding will enable us to leverage our collective strengths and assets to build an ever-better future together as a global leader in semiconductor research and manufacturing," says University President Sarah Mangelsdorf. The NY SMART I-Corridor Tech Hub spans the Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse region and has engaged more than 100 institutions, assembling commitments from industry, academia, labor, non-profit, government, and other private sector members. Senator Chuck Schumer was in Rochester for the announcement, celebrating this prestigious federal Tech Hub designation and funding established in the landmark CHIPS and Science Act. More on this award: https://uofr.us/4d4Duz9

Jazz Fest camera roll 🎺🎥 Thanks for an incredible event, Rochester!

June had some groove 🎶 Looking back on the month in photos.

Congratulations to Cole Goodman '25, NCAA DIII national champion in the triple jump, on representing the Rochester Yellowjackets last night at the US Olympic Trials! #GOJACKETS 🐝