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Celebrating Creativity a Memorial Art Gallery Project Provides a Showcase for ‘Hidden’ Creativity RELATIONSHIP SCIENCE IT’S A BIRD! A CENTURY OF DENTISTRY Pioneering psychologist Geophysicist finds The Eastman Institute for Oral explores human bonds an ancient species Health marks its centennial UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER /JaNUary–FEbruary 2017 Celebrating Creativity A Memorial Art Gallery project provides a showcase for ‘hidden’ creativity. RochRev_Jan2017_Cover.indd 1 12/23/16 3:00 PM “Giving back to the community I work in means the world to me. I get an enormous sense of fulfillment every time I see my young patients and their families LEADING BY smiling. That feeling fuels me and inspires me to The Value of Giving want to do more. I’m proud of my membership in the FOR DEANNE “DEE” MOLINARI ’58, George Eastman Circle, which allows me to provide the oldest of four children in a family of support in a way that affects the greatest change.” EXAMPLE modest means, attending the University of —Sean McLaren’03D (Den), ’06D (Den), chair and program director Rochester was a dream come true. AND INSPIRING of Pediatric Dentistry, Eastman Institute for Oral Health A Founding Member of the Wilson Society, Member, George Eastman Circle SMILES Supports: Eastman Institute for Oral Health Dee is now helping to provide a similar experience for talented students who might not otherwise be able to afford it with the Molinari Family Scholarship Fund at the Eastman School of Music. The scholarship, which honors her family’s appreciation for music, was created through a provision in her will and a charitable gift annuity that pays her a rate of six percent for life. She has also included a provision in her will to establish the Dee Molinari Education Fund at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester that will help ensure a vibrant future for the visual arts. “I want my money go to the things I value,” said Dee. “Planning has made that possible.” Dee, retired from a career in higher education student life administration, is pictured in front of the Memorial Art Gallery where she is a longtime volunteer. IMAGINE YOUR LEGACY. PLAN TODAY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. To learn more about life income gifts, bequests, and other Members of the George Eastman Circle, the University planned giving methods, contact the Office of Trusts, Estates & Gift Planning of Rochester’s leadership annual giving society, commit (800) 635-4672 • (585) 275-8894 at least $1,500 to areas they care about most, for a [email protected] • www.rochester.giftplans.org minimum of five years. To learn more about joining, visit www.GeorgeEastmanCircle.com or call (585) 276-5581. RochRev_Jan2017_Cover.indd 2 12/16/16 9:42 AM Features Janua–F Ry EbRuaRy 2017 28 A Higher Grade 34 of Dentistry Hidden The Eastman Institute for Oral Health marks its Passions, centennial this year, highlighting a remarkable Creative Lives history of growth as well as influence, from the A classical violist Eastman Dental Dispensary (above) to one of the who’s an accomplished world’s leading centers for dental care and research. fabric artist. A veteran By Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) surgeon who doubles as a prominent map 42 collector. And a biophysicist who crafts How Do We Relate? stories on demand. Psychologist Harry Reis, one of the originators of They’re all part of a the field of relationship science, has spent his career Memorial Art Gallery putting human relationships under a microscope—and program celebrating discovering some surprising things about friendships, creativity. Profiles by romance, and more along the way. By Kathleen McGarvey Jim Mandelaro and Jennifer Roach. On THE COVER Violist Melissa Matson, associate professor at the Eastman School of Music, is also a fabric artist. Photograph by Adam Fenster. EASTMAN INSTITUTE FOR ORAL HEALTH January–February 2017 ROCHESTER REVIEW 1 RochRev_Jan2017.indb 1 12/23/16 2:11 PM Departments January–February 2017 3 President’s Page | 4 Letters | 62 Books & Recordings In Review 12 49 Class Notes 6 Premiere Performance 54 College Arts, Sciences & Renée Fleming ’83E (MM) Engineering took the stage with a 57 Graduate Arts, Sciences song cycle about Georgia & Engineering O’Keeffe by Kevin Puts ’94E, ’99E (DMA). 57 Eastman School of Music 8 90 Years Young Looking back at the River Campus 57 Honoring a Defining groundbreaking. Leader 10 Physical Presence 58 School of Medicine Representing the lives of and Dentistry women, in dance. 58 Young Alumni Leaders 12 A Large Seagull . with 59 School of Nursing Teeth Rochester team’s discovery of ancient 59 Simon Business School bird species adds to 59 Warner School understanding of climate. of Education 14 New Engineering Dean 59 In Memoriam Outlines Her Vision Wendi Heinzelman, the 59 Celebrating the first woman to serve as Marimba Masters dean of the Hajim School, 23 Ask the Archivist A ’61 explores the complex 60 Remembering John sees engineering as a question for Melissa geometry of artist M. C. Fuyuume ’48E, ’50E quest in which students, Mead, the John M. and Escher. (MM): From keyboard to faculty, and staff work Barbara Keil University 52 The Social Work of farm, and back again. together to improve the Archivist and Rochester Music Jazz composer and world around them. Collections Librarian. 64 Rethinking pianist Darrell Grant ’84E Restructuring An 16 Who was Grace Hopper? 24 In Brief Rochester measures his success not influential scholar tells An illustration, of sorts, reports global growth, only by how his music why layoffs often add by the president of the cardiologists offer the sounds, but also by to costs—and Women in Computing smallest pacemaker, and what it does. why some Club. other news from campus. 53 In the News businesses 18 A Story in Pictures Critic 26 ‘A Team of One’ Members “Leading have over- Douglas Crimp offers a of Rochester’s first nation- Global relied on snapshot of the art and al championship teams Thinkers” them. culture of mid-century remember the chemistry and more. New York City. that took them to the national title—twice. 20 Discover The power of “supernormals,” video- game brain training, and Alumni Gazette other research news. 48 For the Love of a 22 Museum Launches Mollusk Heidi Knoblauch Media Arts Project ’08 opens a fashionable Renowned curator John oyster bar in New York Hanhardt ’67 will lead an state’s Capital Region. effort to build a collection featuring the aesthetics 50 Tantalized by Tessel- of film, video, and other lations Mathematician technologies. Doris Schattschneider 64 2 ROCHESTER REVIEW January–February 2017 MICHAEL OSADCIW (BIRD); JESSICA HILL/AP IMAGES FOR ROCHESTER REVIEW (HEIDI KNOBLAUCH); DAVID COWLES FOR ROCHESTER REVIEW (WAYNE CASCIO) RochRev_Jan2017_TOC.indd 2 12/23/16 4:27 PM President’s Page Welcoming All in Our Community By Joel Seligman With respect to staff, our focus in part will be on the senior levels of staff and pro- We characterize our University’s core val- viding career development programs that ues as our commitments to academic excel- offer opportunities for promotion of all lence, academic freedom, diversity, and our employees. community. We are a values-driven Univer- Achieving a University that is welcoming sity, and our values are perpetual. to all is about more than numbers. It also is We have long valued diversity and have about climate and culture. There is much been committed to creating and maintain- to be proud of on our campuses in terms ing campuses that are welcoming and re- of the extent to which we have become an spectful to all. increasingly diverse—and indeed interna- Diversity at our University includes not tional—institution in recent decades. But only respect for persons of all races, reli- we were reminded throughout the process gions, genders, ethnicities, and sexual ori- led by the Commission on Race and Diver- entations, but also diversity of viewpoint. sity that there remain instances where in- We value all individuals who participate dividuals feel marginalized because of their here as students, faculty, or staff, regard- race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orienta- less of their intellectual beliefs. tion. This is unacceptable. We aspire to be In the past 11 years, we have made nota- Implementation Committee of leaders a University that is a magnet for the most ble progress in advancing racial and gender from offices throughout the University. talented faculty, students, and staff—quite diversity and increasing the number of un- The recommendation to establish the Pres- literally in the world. To fully achieve this, derrepresented faculty, students, and staff. idential Diversity Council underscores the the realities of what kind of community we We still have much work to do to achieve importance of having at the table those ad- are profoundly matters. a University where all feel supported and ministrative and academic leaders most The final report of the Commission on respected. directly responsible for running the Uni- Race and Diversity is detailed with more On November 29, 2016, I accepted the versity and allocating resources. than 100 pages and 19 appendices, provid- principal recommendations of the Final Each school will be expected to clearly ing a comprehensive and nuanced view of Report of the Presidential Commission on articulate its programs for recruiting, re- the state of race and diversity at our Uni- Race and Diversity. The report was the cul- taining, and graduating a diverse student versity. The report was the culmination mination of a process that began in the fall body consistent with our core values and of a thorough process of analyzing exten- Diversity at our University includes not only respect for persons of all races, religions, genders, ethnicities, and sexual orientations, but also diversity of viewpoint. We value all individuals who participate here as students, faculty, or staff, regardless of their intellectual beliefs.
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