#University of Rochester

[eretzyisrael]

[kick-a-long]

So when you put up wanted posters with names of Jewish people with accusations about them being murders for being Jewish is it antisemitism yet?

When you put up tens of hundreds of copies all around a university, requiring dozens of people to print and hang up, is that antisemitism yet?

Fucking skin head neon nazi bullshit.

[medievalistsnet]

Visualizing Camelot: How King Arthur Captured Popular Culture

The recent exhibit Visualizing Camelot examined the enduring influence of King Arthur and his legendary court. Richard Utz on what lessons does it offer about how medieval legends continue to shape art, culture, and imagination today?

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Four students allegedly involved in distributing “Wanted” posters of University of Rochester leadership, faculty and employees have been expelled, according to a statement from UR’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.

The posters, which appeared the night of Nov. 10, targeted some UR community members for their handling of the university’s response to the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza and Lebanon, or for their alleged ties to the Israeli war effort and settlement movement. 

The expelled students—Jonathan Bermudez, Naomi Gutierrez, Samantha Escobar and Jefferson Turcios—were identified as allegedly involved during an investigation by UR’s Department of Public Safety. They were subject to the school’s Code of Conduct violation procedures and also charged with second degree criminal mischief, a class D felony, by the Monroe County district attorney’s office.

The expulsions are the culmination of that code of conduct process; the criminal proceedings against the students are ongoing, with the four charged next expected in court Feb. 4. UR’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine announced the expulsions Friday afternoon on Instagram. The group has spearheaded organizing protests on campus against the war in Gaza and Lebanon. 

A student who spoke on the condition of anonymity says the expulsion letters came Monday. UR spokesperson Sara Miller says that the university recognizes the public interest in the poster incident but it cannot legally confirm or comment on the matter due to its obligations under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Turcios did not respond to a request for his expulsion letter.

Miller says all student conduct cases are “handled consistent with published processes meeting the institution’s obligation of fundamental fairness while effectively addressing actions found to violate applicable policy and preserving a safe campus environment.”

However, the university’s response to the incident and the criminal charges pressed against the students have drawn controversy. 

[fairytwles]

university of rochester flag??

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Manipulated hafnia paves the way for next-generation memory devices

Scientists and engineers have been pushing for the past decade to leverage an elusive ferroelectric material called hafnium oxide, or hafnia, to usher in the next generation of computing memory. A team of researchers including the University of Rochester's Sobhit Singh published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences outlining progress toward making bulk ferroelectric and antiferroelectric hafnia available for use in a variety of applications. In a specific crystal phase, hafnia exhibits ferroelectric properties—that is, electric polarization that can be changed in one direction or another by applying an external electric field. This feature can be harnessed in data storage technology. When used in computing, ferroelectric memory has the benefit of non-volatility, meaning it retains its values even when powered off, one of several advantages over most types of memory used today.

Read more.

[wife-beam]

update as of 4/28: the university lied in talks with UR SJP and later released a statement saying it would NOT divest from israel; UR SJP is still fighting for this meanwhile the university has begun issuing student bans

Action items students are asking support with: emailing U of R admin to lift student bans, mutual aid donation to students who are encamping, and show up to campus demonstrations (email template and cashapp found here: http://bit.ly/3QnCwoJ )

[immaculatasknight]

Dear old golden school days

[yetisidelblog]

The University of Rochester just arrested four of its students for fighting to divest their tuition dollars from the Israeli war machine — and is now charging them with felonies.

Repression of those fighting for Palestinian liberation is only increasing, and students are among the most vulnerable members of our movement.

That's why it's critical that we act to protect these students, and refuse a precedent that mischaracterizes our movement, represses free speech, and shuts down demands for divestment from Israeli genocide.

Email the University now and demand that the charges against these four students be dropped.

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[connectparanormal]

Haunting at Rush Rhees Library: A Ghost Story

The Campus Times, March 16, 1934 (Rochester NY)

[heyits-mars-x]

A story on Meliora Weekend 2023

[flipfriddle]

3D Bacteria

This is an illustration I made at work for research into creating hydrogen gas using plain old water, particular bacteria, and a commonly found reactant. Seems like a BIG DEAL™ to me. As always, it was really interesting working with faculty like Kara Bren and Todd Kraus and helping them make their discoveries accessible to a broader audience.

Created primarily in Blender with a little zazzle added in via Affinity Photo.

[dwellerinthelibrary]

A detail from the coffin of Pa-debehu-Aset. The sun god appears as a black scarab with colourful wings and a ram's head with wavy horns, above which is a red sundisc. The scarab's hind legs also stand on a sundisc.

Where: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester

When: Ptolemaic Egypt

[wonder-worker]

"...Walsingham, the monastic author of the St. Albans Chronicle, was by far [Alice Perrers'] harshest contemporary critic, who in his venom has (somewhat ironically) left us with the longest and most detailed account of her background and personality, her influence as Edward’s mistress, and her subsequent trial. He describes Alice as a shameless lowborn meretrix (a word variously translated as mistress, whore, or harlot), who “brought almost universal dishonour upon the king’s reputation […] and defiled virtually the whole kingdom of England with her disgraceful insolence.” Although Walsingham was not always accurate and, specifically in this case, clearly heavily biased against Alice, he nevertheless provides a truly contemporary account, and his importance as a source should not be underestimated. Likewise, the anonymous monk of St. Mary’s York recorded that in the Good Parliament the Commons (represented by their speaker, Sir Peter de la Mare) stated that it “would be of great gain to the kingdom to remove the said dame [Alice] from the presence of the king both as a matter of conscious and of the ill prosecution of the war.” During the same assembly, the bishop of Rochester, Thomas Brinton, preached from St. Paul’s Cross that “it is not fitting nor safe for all the keys of the kingdom to hang from the belt of one wife.” Although the word wife (uxoris) is used, it is widely accepted that this is a reference to Alice.”

— Laura Tompkins, '"Edward III's Gold-Digging Mistress": Alice Perrers, Gender, and Financial Power at the English Royal Court, 1360-1377", Women and Economic Power in Premodern Courts (Edited by Cathleen Sarti). Italics by me.