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Pediatrics A New Blueprint for Children’s Care With a $20 million gift, Tom tion has given an additional $1.6 million to the Strong Center for Developmental Dis- Golisano kicks off plans for abilities to establish the Institute for Inno- a new children's hospital. vative Transition. Golisano Children’s Hospital, which was By Kathleen McGarvey named in 2002, today occupies the fourth floor of Strong Memorial Hospital, while A $20 million gift from Rochester en- the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is on the trepreneur and philanthropist B. Thomas third floor. Limited space requires that Golisano has kicked off the Medical Cen- many patients share a room—not an ideal ter’s plans to build a new, $134-million Gol- arrangement for family involvement, infec- isano Children’s Hospital. tion control, or privacy. The hospital, the “A new facility is necessary to keep pace only pediatric hospital in the with medical and technological advance- region, cares for 74,000 children each year. ments and to meet the modern standards With Golisano’s latest donation, the of a children’s hospital,” says Golisano, who Medical Center plans to create a modern, founded Inc., a payroll and human dedicated children’s hospital. Pending state resources service provider, in 1971. approval, the University will build a six-sto- NAMESAKE: Rochester entrepreneur Tom The University’s most generous individ- ry, 200,000-square-foot hospital on Crit- Golisano (above) announced a $20 million ual living donor, Golisano has given a total tenden Boulevard, adjacent to the Strong gift this summer to build a new Golisano of $34 million to the children’s hospital that Memorial Hospital lobby and facing the Children’s Hospital (top, in a conceptual bears his name, and the Golisano Founda- James P. Wilmot Cancer Center. The new rendering) at the Medical Center.

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building will be financed through a com- bination of philanthropy, operating equity, and external debt. “The new Golisano Children’s Hospi- tal is the ideal setting in which to practice patient- and family-centered care for our youngest patients,” says Medical Center CEO Bradford Berk ’81M (MD/PhD). “This amazing facility will ensure that children will not have to leave our community for care and that families can always remain with their hospitalized children.” The new hospital will hold a 60-bed neo- natal intensive care unit, pediatric imag- ing, and 56 private pediatric rooms. Those rooms will be a third larger than current private rooms, offering greater comfort for patients, families, and caregivers. The de- sign will also allow patients to be grouped by disease or injury, giving the hospital bet- ter opportunities to train nurses and other staff members to become experts in com- mon ailments such as asthma. In a similar spirit, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive ENTREPRENEURIAL INITIATIVE: A $3 million gift commitment from Mark ’67S (MBA) and Care Unit, as well as the Ronald McDonald Carolyn Ain (above) will help “educate the George Eastmans of the future,” says Mark House-within-the-Hospital, will move to Zupan, dean of the Simon School. the new facility. “When I came to Rochester in 2006, we Simon School had top-notch faculty and staff with exper- tise unparalleled in communities our size,” says Nina Schor, Golisano Children’s Hos- An ‘Eastman’ Education—in pital pediatrician-in-chief. “What we were missing was the facility to match, and now, Business and Entrepreneurship thanks to Tom, we’re going to have a hospi- tal built expressly around the needs of our Gift commitment from Mark ’67S (MBA) and Carolyn Ain patients and families.”r supports entrepreneurship at the Simon School. Dedicated Space By Charla Stevens Kucko neurship at the University. Since 2007, the The new Golisano Children’s Hospital building Mark Ain Business Model Workshops and will be adjacent to the south entrance of the There’s more than luck involved in Competition have been open to students at Strong Memorial Hospital lobby. getting a good idea off the ground. all levels of study, University-wide. Mark Ain ’67S (MBA), a University trust- Ain’s support of the Center for Entre- Strong Memorial ee and cofounder and chairman of Kronos preneurship has enabled students to con- Hospital Inc.—a workforce management compa- tribute to economic development in the ny based in Chelmsford, Mass.—knows Rochester region through internships de- that well. signed to bolster small businesses and the So he and his wife, Carolyn, have made community. a $3 million gift commitment to support “Mark Ain is a perfect example of the entrepreneurship education and schol- success that is born from hard work and LVD.B N E DN E T T I R C arships at the Simon School as well as the entrepreneurial spirit,” Zupan says. to support the University’s Technology “Thanks to his and Carolyn’s generosity, Development Fund. we’ll be able to educate the George East- “The power of human capital and the mans and Bill Gateses and Oprah Winfreys ideas that are generated out of that cre- of the future—and for that, we are im- r Golisano ativity and drive are the future for our mensely grateful.” Children’s Ambulatory economy,” says Mark Zupan, dean of the Hospital Care Simon School. Kucko is director of marketing and commu- Ain is a longtime supporter of entrepre- nications for the Simon School.

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REEL STORIES: The Winner, a 2011 film directed by Wieslaw Saniewski (above), will be screened at the Polish Film Festival, sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies. Other films include Joanna, All That I Love, and Erratum (below, top to bottom).

Film Studies Reel Time The University celebrates film and filmmaking with two notable festivals this fall. The film image is an important piece of uled to attend the event. For more, visit the city of Rochester’s history—celebrated www.rochester.edu/college/psc/CPCES/. this fall in two film festivals the University will host. On November 10, the Skalny Cen- ter for Polish and Central European Stud- ies—along with other sponsors, including the Polish Film Institute and the Polish Filmmakers Association—will raise the cur- tain on some of the most highly acclaimed recent Polish cinema. More domestic ad- ventures will be screened on October 15, when Rochester takes part in Home Movie Day, an event honoring amateur moviemak- ers and their films. Home Movie Day Family favorites and found films are in the Polish Film Festival spotlight for Home Movie Day, an interna- The Skalny Center sponsors the annual, tional celebration of amateur filmmaking. five-day festival, a survey of new trends The event—locally, a collaboration between in Polish cinema. This year, the festi- the University and the George Eastman val will spotlight two recent films by ac- House International Museum of Photogra- claimed director Feliks Falk—Joanna phy and Film—salutes amateur movies as (2010) and Case Unknown (2009). Falk an irreplaceable source of cultural history and actor Pawel Szaida, a star of Wieslaw and offers guidance on ways to care for and Saniewski’s new film, The Winner—which preserve home film collections. Visit the is also on the festival program—are sched- website at www.homemovieday.com.r

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3_RochRev_Sept11_Review.indd 7 8/19/11 1:18 PM Meliora Weekend, Oct. 20–23 Meliora Match Game President Bill Clinton, the keynote speaker for the 10th an- niversary Meliora Weekend, Oct. 20–23, adds to an illustri- ous line of high-profile guests who have addressed alumni, students, faculty, and friends since the weekend was International policy analyst Fareed Zakaria (then editor of Newsweek International) founded in 2001. B See if you can match the annual celebration’s keynote speaker to the year in which he or she was on campus for the weekend’s first decade. For more aboutM eliora Weekend 2011, visit www.rochester.edu/melioraweekend.

2001 2006 2002 2007 2003 2008 Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s 2004 2009 C Hardball with Chris Matthews 2005 2010

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ’70, D ’98 (Honorary)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (then U.S. sena- Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon A tor from ) and Ted Turner, founder of CNN E and CNN medical correspondent

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Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer F (then state attorney general) (top) and Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway

Bill Bradley, former U.S. senator I from New Jersey (top left), then U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta (above), and Jeane Kirkpatrick,

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The Ups Brush and Floss for and Downs a Healthy . . . Heart? Scientists have discovered the of Coming tool—a collagen-binding protein called CNM—that bacteria nor- Out mally found in our mouths use to invade heart tissue, causing a Coming out as lesbian, gay, dangerous and sometimes lethal or bisexual increases infection of the heart known as emotional well-being endocarditis. even more than earlier A bacterium best known for research has indicated, causing cavities, Streptococcus but the psychological benefits mutans lives in dental plaque, of revealing one’s sexual churning out acid that erodes identity—less anger, less the teeth. depression, and higher self- A dental procedure of even esteem—are limited to sup- vigorous flossing portive settings, says a study can allow the coauthored by Richard Ryan, bacteria to professor of psychology, and enter the published in Social Psychology blood- and Personality Science. stream. The study, which included Although participants from 18 to 65 years the old, found that age made no immune difference in who comes system out, nor did gender or usually de- sexual orientation. stroys them, Instead, the key de- occasionally— terminant for reveal- and within just a ing a minority sexual few seconds—they can travel orientation was the to the heart and colonize its supportiveness of the tissue, creating a potentially environment. deadly infection. Microbiologist “The vast majority of gay peo- Jacqueline Abranches, a ple are not out in every setting,” research assistant professor, is says Ryan. “People are reading corresponding author of the their environment and determin- study, published in Infection and ing whether it is safe or not.” Immunity. ROOM FOR ALL: Rochester research The research raises the pos- underscores the importance of sibility of creating a screening accepting workplaces and other test to gauge a dental patient’s social settings. vulnerability to the condition.

Doves and Hawks, Hatched by Stress Is your child a “dove,” cautious responses to stress—differences haviorally and chemically—may certain family conditions. “When and submissive when confronting that may provide children with be an evolutional response to it comes to healthy psychologi- new environments? Or perhaps advantages for navigating threat- stress,” says Patrick Davies, a cal behavior, one size does not you have a hawk, bold and asser- ening environments, research- professor of clinical and social fit all,” says coauthor Melissa tive in unfamiliar settings? Those ers report in Development and psychology and lead author Sturge-Apple, an assistant basic temperamental patterns Psychopathology. of the study, noting that each professor of clinical and social are linked to opposite hormonal “Divergent reactions—both be- technique may work better in psychology.

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3_RochRev_Sept11_Review.indd 10 8/18/11 9:35 PM Changing a Genetic ‘Red Light’ to Green In a study published in the jour- forms of cancer. The genetic instructions for creating the pro- nal Nature, scientists discovered code is the set of instructions tein. The end result: a different an entirely new way to change in a gene that tells a cell how to protein than originally called for. the genetic code, overriding an make a specific protein. Yi-Tao Yu, an associate professor errant form of genetic signaling Central to the body’s protein of biochemistry and biophys- for the first time. production process is messenger ics, is lead study author. Robert The findings, though early, are RNA, which takes instructions Bambara, chair of the depart- significant because they may from DNA and directs the steps ment, says that the “ability to ultimately help researchers alter necessary to build a protein. manipulate the production of a the course of devastating genetic For the first time, researchers protein from a particular gene A Potent Illusion disorders such as cystic fibrosis, modified messenger RNA and in is the new miracle of modern Scientists have come up with muscular dystrophy, and many doing so changed the original medicine.” new insight into the brain processes that cause an optical illusion. Jump off a treadmill and TAKE A MESSAGE: Model of a ribosome, everything seems for a moment which uses instructions provided to be in motion; similarly, as a by messenger RNA dartboard design moves, with to build proteins. the lines seemingly moving to- ward the center, an interspersed image of Rochester mascot Rocky seems to loom forward. But it’s an illusion, caused by the way our brains have adapted to the inward motion of the back- ground, which becomes a new status quo. Called the Motion Aftereffect, and first documented by Aristotle—minus Rocky—the phenomenon is caused by neural processes that occur whenever we see moving objects, according to brain and cognitive sciences doctoral student Davis Glasser. A study he conducted with advisor Duje Tadin, an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences, and colleagues at the Montreal Neurological Institute, was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Diabetes and Obesity Are a Daunting Duo for Pregnancy Type 2 diabetes and obesity ing the door to a wide range of prevalence of obesity among and type 2 diabetes in women in pregnancy together raise a pregnancy, delivery, and new- adult women in the United States that we are seeing right now, major red flag, according to new born complications. Obesity and was more than 35 percent, while because for a very long time dia- research published in the Journal type 2 diabetes are skyrocketing the Centers for Disease Control betes was a disease of an older of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal in women of childbearing age; and Prevention say that about population,” says senior study Medicine. The study shows that the Journal of the American 11 percent of women over age author Loralei Thornburg, an both conditions independently Medical Association reports that 20 had diabetes in 2010. “We’ve assistant professor of obstetrics contribute to higher risks, open- between 2007 and 2008, the never seen the degree of obesity and gynecology.

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3_RochRev_Sept11_Review.indd 12 8/18/11 9:46 PM Na notechnology Big Designs at Small Sizes SCALING UP: Chris Striemer, a research scientist for the Rochester- based biotechnology company Simpore, adjusts the target on a high-performance system that deposits ultrathin films of metal onto the surfaces of other materials as part of a project in the University’s new Integrated Nanosystems Center. Located in Goergen Hall, the new center provides University faculty, materials scientists, and researchers at area companies with advanced tech- nology to conduct research using materials at the scale of atoms and molecular structures. In the background is Brian McIntyre, the operations manager for the center, which will be formally dedicated at the start of the 2011–12 school year. Photograph by Adam Fenster

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3_RochRev_Sept11_Review.indd 13 8/18/11 9:47 PM University History Eastman School: 90 Years Young WAITING IN THE WINGS: As students arrived for the first day of classes at the Eastman School on Sept. 19, 1921, work was progressing on what would become at the corner of Gibbs and Main streets in downtown Rochester. Established by George Eastman as the first professional school of the University, the school is marking its 90th anniversary during the 2011–12 year. Over nine decades, the school has grown from two buildings to include the Annex, Student Living Center, Miller Center (including Sibley Library), Messinger Hall, and the Eastman East Wing, which opened in 2010–11. PHOTOGRAPH: UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES/DEPARTMENT OF RARE BOOKS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, AND PRESERVATION

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3_RochRev_Sept11_Review.indd 15 8/18/11 9:49 PM Physics Saying Farewell to a ‘Tick-Tock’ World What does it mean when you tell someone the time? More than you might think.

By Adam Frank thoughts and more present in the lives di- tions? While we can’t answer that question rectly before us. There was nowhere else now, we’re close enough to the dawning of What time is it? It seems like such a to be. Urgent or nonurgent communication the electronic era to see firsthand how new simple question. But with just a little re- had to wait until we could find a device forms of technology directly reshape the flection—historical and cosmological—we connected by a wire to the wall. Now we human experience of time. can see that there’s really nothing simple communicate on a whim, filling time sim- More remarkably, reflecting on the last about time. Our ideas and our experience ply because we’re bored or responding to 50,000 years of cultural transformation, of time have changed again and again. And a thought that crossed our mind. The sim- we can expect that the changes in human we seem poised to see them change once ple act of walking down the street and call- time manifested through digital technolo- more in our lifetimes. ing a friend to check in is as profound and gy should mirror changes in cosmological Ask a friend what time it is, and he might radical a shift in the experience, use, and time. That expectation has been fulfilled. look at his watch and respond that it’s 1:17 The introduction of mechanical clocks p.m. But what is 1:17 p.m.? What is the mean- shifted the organization of the European ing of such an exact metering of minutes? The last decades day and eventually provided a new meta- There’s nothing innate, objective, or God- phor for the heavens—a precise, cosmic given about this kind of time. Mechanical of the 20th century clockwork set in motion by God’s hand. clocks didn’t appear until the 14th century, brought another Centuries later, the introduction of steam and they had no minute hands—an inven- power started the industrial revolution’s tion that would take approximately another revolution in human new machine age and drove the rhythms of 300 years to appear. Did 1:17 p.m. even exist temporal experience. its workers’ punch-clock lives. The science a thousand years ago for peasants living in of thermodynamics, emerging from those medieval Europe, Song Dynasty China, or Everyone over steam-powered machines, advanced a new the central Persian Empire? Was there such the age of understanding of time and transformation a thing as 1:17 p.m. in the long millennia be- in terms of energy, entropy, and evolution. fore the vast majority of human beings had 20 has a foot Thermodynamics yielded its own meta- access to any form of timekeeping device? on either side of phors and conceptual tools that reshaped No. The moment 1:17 is a product of our cosmological thinking. Then, just before own era, born in the industrial revolution the divide as human the dawn of the 20th century, trains and when society found it had a use for min- culture and human telegraph wires created new experiences utes. Since then we’ve been building de- of simultaneity across vast distances. Ein- vices that can meter time into ever smaller time stepped from the stein’s theory of relativity used its own new units and building a society that makes ev- analog era into the vision of simultaneity as a pivot point for er-greater demands for every one of those merging space and time into space-time. time demarcations. digital domain. Once a fully relativistic account of space- The last decades of the 20th century time and its flexible geometry was available, brought another revolution in human tem- cosmology was given its first complete lan- poral experience. Everyone over the age of conception of time as anything that passed guage. Always and again, transformations 20 has a foot on either side of the divide as before, from the Neolithic age to the indus- in cosmic and human time surged back human culture and human time stepped trial revolution. and forth, each one supporting the other in from the analog era into the digital domain. Given our proximity to this tectonic metaphorical and material realms. Many of us can still recall a world unmedi- surge of cultural re-creation, it’s impossi- By the last decades of the 20th century, ated by silicon microcircuit chips. ble to know how long the digital age will silicon technology dominated our mate- Remember when you had to be home to last. The agricultural revolution reshaped rial engagement with the world. Machines get a call? Remember when you had to or- human experience for many thousands of made possible by silicon microcircuits— der a map from AAA to plan a trip? Remem- years. The industrial revolution created computers, personal digital assistants, cell ber when your calendar was something that cultural forms that extended across cen- phones, and GPS devices—were accelerating hung on the wall? turies. Will the digital revolution simply the immediate and very personal movement Before the advent of cell phones, we lead us to a dead end, or will it drive sus- through daily life. These silicon “machines” were fundamentally more alone with our tainable forms of culture that cross genera- moved at speeds so fast their cadence was

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3_RochRev_Sept11_Review.indd 16 8/18/11 9:53 PM far more native to atoms than to humans. By building culture timed to their clock cycles, we’ve compressed our own time and experi- ence in ways both thrilling and exhausting. In our working and personal lives we’re ex- pected to do more because these machines make it possible. And so we’ve entered a new time whose contours are as closely felt and intimately lived as the tick-tock world of our great-grandparents or the sun-parsed days of our distant ancestors. At the same time, the scientific capaci- ties unleashed in the computer age pushed our cosmic narrative of the Big Bang to its limits. Computer simulations, massive da- ta-gathering projects, and space-based tele- scope platforms revealed new challenges to any cosmology that would begin with a beginning. In the closing years of the last century, the pace of life, time, and cosmic evolution all were set in a permanent state of acceleration. Now with astronomers recognizing the reality that the entire universe is acceler- ating—expanding at ever faster rates as cosmic time moves forward—they are left trying to imagine new possibilities for cos- mic origins. Was there really a Big Bang, or has the universe been moving through cy- cles of birth and death forever? Is there just one universe or does an infinite number of universes—a multiverse—exist, each per- haps with its own laws of physics? Thus cosmic time and human time are set to change together once again, as they have so many times in the past. The stage is set, and we can only watch in wonder as the drama of human and cosmic time enter their next act.r

Adam Frank, a professor of astrophysics, is the author of About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang (Simon and Schuster, 2011), from which he adapted this essay. Frank is also a regular contributor to 13.7: Cosmos and Culture (www.npr.org/blogs/13.7), a website of NPR that explores the connections between sci- ence and culture.

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Update Report on Student Death Released Task force: Response was ‘appropriate and consistent and Seligman has asked Stewart to oversee their implementation. with the University plan for dealing with emergencies.’ “I do not believe that any of these rec- ommendations would have prevented this By Kathleen McGarvey at a nonjury trial in April, when a Monroe tragedy,” Seligman wrote in a University- County judge ruled that he had acted in wide memo on the report. “All in the future The death of junior Jeffrey Bordeaux self-defense. may contribute, often in incremental ways, Jr. last winter was not something the Uni- In January, Seligman asked Sue Stewart, to further enhancing safety on our campus.” versity could have foreseen or prevented senior vice president and general counsel In acknowledging the thoroughness and with information possessed at the time, ac- for the University, to review the Universi- persuasiveness of the report and the effort cording to a report commissioned by Pres- ty’s policies related to the incident and sub- that went into producing it, Seligman rec- ident Joel Seligman from the University’s mit a report to him. ognized the anguish caused by the incident. Office of Counsel. The task force she led included three “Nothing in this report should detract The 36-page report, submitted to Selig- University attorneys and a University- from how painful and saddening were the man this summer, notes that the systems retained law firm that specializes in higher death of Jeffrey Bordeaux Jr. and the sub- and policies in place at the time of the trag- education issues and that had no prior rela- sequent criminal trial of Daren Venable,” he edy were similar to those at other universi- tionship with the University. The external wrote. “The pain to the family and friends ties and that the University’s response was law firm was asked to review the report and of both of these young men is real and has “appropriate and consistent with the Uni- its methodology. been wrenching. My heart goes out to those versity plan for dealing with emergencies.” Seligman also charged the counsel’s who were touched so deeply and personally Bordeaux died in January following a office to propose additional steps the by this tragedy.” fight with junior Daren Venable on the University could take to provide a safe en- The full report is available online at Fraternity Quad. Venable was found not vironment for all students, faculty, and staff. www.rochester.edu/president/memos/ guilty of second-degree murder charges The report includes 23 recommendations, 2011/bordeaux-report.html.r

Get Ready for ‘The Sing-Off’ Y ellowJackets selected for singing competition starting September 19 on NBC SING OUT LOUD: Tune in to NBC’s reality singing competition, The Sing-Off, in September to see—and hear—Rochester’s YellowJackets compete with 16 a cappella groups from across the country in this fall’s edition of the show. The weekly competition culminates in a live season finale to name the grand prize winner.

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Scouting Report The Sporting News What’s the outlook for the Yellowjackets this year? Here’s a quick rundown— by season—of what to expect from Rochester’s sports teams.

Fall Winter Football The Yellowjackets are poised for a Men’s and women’s basketball The big year with 18 returning starters. Brendan men reached the NCAA Division III Sweet 16 a Pidgeon ’13 and Kobie Hamm ’13 are both year ago and return three starters, including preseason All-Americans. The team plays its All-American (and UAA Player of the Year) first home game on September 24 against John DiBartolomeo ’13 while the women Union. Catch the action a week earlier when are seeking their seventh straight NCAA bid the Yellowjackets take on St. John Fisher driven by an experienced senior class: Jodie College in the Courage Bowl at Sahlen Luther ’12, Maddie Korber ’12, Michelle Stadium in downtown Rochester. Ketcham ’12, and Kate Agan ’12. Spring Field hockey A multi- Men’s and women’s swimming faceted attack is led by and diving The women have won two Men’s and women’s track and field Allison Beardsley ’12 and straight Liberty League titles and the Rochester will host the New York State Anna Dobrzynski ’12, who men have taken two of the last four. Collegiate Track Conference outdoor champi- combined for 25 goals onships on May 4 and 5. The men will be led Squash With two All- last year. by school record-holder and graduate student Americans returning Francisco Ramirez. The women have several Men’s soccer to the lineup in Ben defending state champions, including Claire and women’s Fischer ’13 and Andres Crowther ’13. soccer Both Duany ’13, look for teams are regu- squash to retain its top 10 Men’s and women’s tennis The women lars in the NCAA ranking. were ranked as high as No. 20 last year, and Division III Danielle Shreck ’12 and Frances Tseng ’13 national cham- will lead the way this year. The men have pionships. seven veterans returning, including seniors Rochester’s Brian Rice ’12 and Matt Volkov ’12. women will Softball Maddie Skellie ’13 was the Liberty be led by senior League Pitcher of the Year in 2010 while Nina striker Ellen Coleman ’12 who Korn ’14 was the Rookie of the Year. Both will has been an All-American for two lead softball this year. straight seasons. Plenty of players will create offense for the men’s team, Baseball The team has to replace four including Jake Cargill ’12 and Max starters in 2012. Alex Caghan ’12 was named Eberhardt ’12. to the Jewish Sports Review All-America Team in 2010 and 2011. Men’s and women’s cross country Watch for All-American James Vavra ’12 and Golf In 2011, Nicholas Palladino ’14 won Hillary Snyder ’12 at the head of the respec- the Phil Mickelson Award as the Division III tive packs. Freshman of the Year. Volleyball The team has seven home dates, Lacrosse With five March home games, the including the UAA Round Robin on October 15 Yellowjackets are looking for a strong start to and 16. Casey Larsen ’12 was among the UAA the season. leaders in kills and service aces in 2010. Rowing Fueled by a bronze medal at the Dad Vail Championships in 2011, the team will TEAMWORK: Preseason All-American Kobie continue to build. —Dennis O’Donnell Hamm ’13 (above) and returning UAA Player of the Year John DiBartolomeo (top right) O’Donnell is director of athletic communica- will help lead the Yellowjackets this year. tions for the Department of Athletics and Recreation.

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