University of Rochester
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Rochester, NY, 14627
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Students and Faculty

Full-time undergraduates: 4,839
Full-time graduate students: 2,900
Part-time graduate students: 1,288
Tenure-track faculty: 1,315
Total faculty and staff:
(University of Rochester and Strong Health)
19,441
Alumni: More than 97,000 living



Recent Rankings

Kaplan's 2008 "How to Get Into College" guide lists the Eastman School of Music as the Hottest Music School

Kaplan's 2007 guide includes the University of Rochester as one of 25 "New Ivies."

US News and World Report 2009

  • National universities: 35th

US News and World Report 2009

  • Best graduate schools—School of Engineering and Applied Sciences: 32nd
  • Best graduate schools—political science: 13th
  • Best graduate schools—economics: 19th

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Ivette Vazquez

Ivette Vazquez Happy Radiologic Technologist Week!

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University of Rochester Did you attend the University's Rochester Scholars Program while in high school? If so, program organizers want to hear your story and learn about your experience. Contact Ursula Balent at ursula.balent@rochester.edu, 275-9055, or stop by the Office of Pre-College Programs, 116 Wallis Hall.

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University of Rochester With only six one-hundreths of a point and two votes separating our top two Photo Friday photos, I've made an executive decision to declare this week our first tie! Besides, both Andrew Wong's and Kelly Mulrey's photos were awesome.

Lori Mittelstaedt White
Lori Mittelstaedt White
Good choices! Both beautiful photos!!
Yesterday at 9:04am
Henry
Henry
Go Kelly!
Yesterday at 12:05pm
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University of Rochester Wow, after the week off for Halloween, everyone really went to town on Photo Friday homepage photos. There are a lot of great images this week featuring Rochester in all its fall glory.

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University of Rochester Just wanted to say thank you to all of the students and families who participated in our Engineering at Rochester event. We hope you enjoyed your time with us as much as we enjoyed you being here!

Andrew Cutillo

Andrew Cutillo how would i go about submitting photos for photo friday?

November 5 at 12:47pm · Report
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University of Rochester
Hi Andrew. Every Friday if you click on the "Photo Friday" link on the homepage there is a link to an online submission form. It's at http://www.rochester.edu/largepics/photofriday/. Thanks!
November 6 at 5:00am
Sarah Lutner-Ives

Sarah Lutner-Ives STOP BEING A
GAY WITHOUT A VOICE!!! STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!! ----WE MUST FIGHT TO
WIN EQUALITY!!!!!!!!!---- GO TO THE MAINE EVENT RALLY @ THE FEDERAL
BUILDING IN ROCHESTER!!! CALL ME 585-690-9012 FOR ANY INFO OR
DIRECTIONS!!!

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University of Rochester Rochester professor Cindy Ebinger and an international team of scientists confirm that a desert region of Ethiopia
will likely become home to a new ocean.

Source: news.yahoo.com
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.
Karen Martino
Karen Martino
It looks like the movie 2012 is based on this event happening even faster than a few days. A 35 mile rift would stretch from Rochester to Batavia!
November 4 at 7:26am
Kitryn Ellis
Kitryn Ellis
Hey... they've been trying to figure out how to get water to Ethiopia for YEARS!
November 5 at 12:06pm
Reenah Golden

Reenah Golden Sponsored by Warner School, Join us!

A One-woman play by Nilaja Sun about life in an urban school starring Reenah Golden
Location:Geva Nextstage (www.gevatheatre.org)
Time:7:00PM Thursday, November 12th
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University of Rochester Engineering at Rochester begins tomorrow. Our prospective students will get a chance to see how engineering students & professors make history in the field of engineering. Ask about Nano-Rocky if you stop by URInc (University of Rochester Integrated Nanosystems Center) The largest Rocky is about 1/3 of a human hair in size & the smallest is about 1/20th.

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University of Rochester Please join us in congratulating URCS team: Ian Christopher '10, Dennis Huo '10, Xiaoqing Tang '12 for placing FIRST! in the Regional Final of the ACM Programming Contest. The first 3 teams were: 1. Rochester 2. MIT 3. Harvard. MIT has not been passed in this contest since 2003. The team advances to the World Finals in Harbin, China (Feb. 2010)

Source: cm.baylor.edu
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a multitier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University. The contest involves ...
Nishant Gupta
November 3 at 2:10am
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University of Rochester NBA star Manut Bol and pollster John Zogby will be at U of R tomorrow to raise awareness for the Sudan Sunrise project -- building schools in the Sudan one brick at a time.

Source: www.rochester.edu
WHO: At 7-foot-7, Sudanese-born Manute Bol was known as the NBA's tallest player. Now, Bol has teamed up with famed pollster John Zogby to achieve an even higher goal: building schools in the war-torn villages of his native Sudan through the non-profit organization Sudan Sunrise. ...
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University of Rochester Photo Friday is out trick-or-treating this weekend, so we present a special Halloween version of the homepage. Check out the site for the full selection and to rate your faves.

5 new photos
Josiah O'Connell
Leah
Leah
you guys are geeks!!
November 2 at 12:42pm
Doug Bentley
Doug Bentley
Great Job
November 5 at 1:22pm
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University of Rochester Naked mole rats: They may be ugly little suckers, but they are also the only known animals who do not get cancer. A U of R researchers is closer to finding out why.

Source: www.nytimes.com
A tunnel-dwelling species seems to have an immunity to cancer and a life span of extraordinary length for a rodent.
Deborah
Deborah
Cancer is probably afraid of them!
October 27 at 1:07pm
Jeanette Fronk
Jeanette Fronk
I sure hope so. We had a lot of pt. that were full of it today.
October 27 at 2:40pm