Diversity

What is the Interfaith Chapel? Located near the Genesee River, the Interfaith Chapel offers a number of services and events. It represents diversity on our campus, in that students may…

Today's guest post is written by Samir Hummad, Banaa Scholar, University of Rochester, Class of 2015 I could hardly believe it when I got my admission letter to come to the University…

This past weekend, I was able to go on a weekend retreat with my fraternity and it was amazing! Although the U of R has a beautiful university campus, it…

After ten weeks of bribing a spectacular army of readers (like Patrick O’Neill here) with snacks, I’ve signed almost 4,000 decision letters addressed to students who had applied Early Decision…

T'ai Chi: Explorations in Qi (DAN 211)  Tuesday is my busiest day of the week. On Tuesday mornings, I pretty much stuff all my books into a sports bag and rush…

I haven’t written in a while, but I have a number of reasons, or maybe excuses, for that. December was pretty dense. I survived my first period of final exams…

I managed to catch a video of the first real snowfall at UR for you all: Protip: When you don’t know what you want next Christmas, for your birthday, etc.,…

Hey guys, Sorry that it’s been so long since I’ve posted a blog, but I had NO idea the toll that finals would take on me. At Rochester, we have…

I received a thoughtful email with questions from an enterprise in China: “Our organization [works] with UK universities [focusing] on key personal skills such as problem solving, teamwork, communication, improving…

One of the biggest events of the fall semester is Delta Upsilon Fraternity’s Dance 4 Charity, held in U of R’s Strong Auditorium. It’s the campus’s only competition between the…

Pumpkins catapulted and blasted into the sky, a game of Tetris used bananas as control pads, a cappella groups sang all-time classics. It certainly doesn't sound like an average meeting…

College in the United States has introduced me to a beautiful new culture and its amazing traditions—one of them being Thanksgiving. Come early November, the college campus is buzzing with…