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July-August 2018 Issue of Rochester Review ECONOMIC INFLUENCE PITCHING POLITICS SHOW US YOUR TOWN: NYC Adding up Rochester’s A history of presidents Find your way around the Big economic impact. and baseball. Apple with alumni and friends. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER /JUlY–AUgUST 2018 Committed to Memory How does memory shape our sense of who we are? RochRev_July2018.indb 1 7/30/18 4:31 PM ONE. MANY. MELIORA MELIORA WEEKEND WEEKEND OCTOBER 4–7 OCTOBER 4–7 • 2018 • • 2018 • ALL. NOSTALGIA. BRING IT. REGISTRATION OPENS WEDNESDAY, URAlumniRelations JULY 25 AT NOON (EDT) You live ever better, every day, creating a ripple of positive change wherever MELIORA WEEKEND UofR Get back to the very best of your University you go. This fall, bring it home for our 18th celebration with classmates and OCTOBER 4–7, 2018 Our online system makes the process the entire Rochester family. Get back to the very best of your University roots, roots. Rediscover what you love about uofralumni easier than ever. View the full schedule, across the River Campus and Medical Center, to the Eastman School of Music Rochester at your reunion with fellow Don’t miss the festivities! transportation, hotel information, and Memorial Art Gallery. Register today at classmates and friends. See who’s registered, babysitting services–and everything rochester.edu/melioraweekend connect with classmates, and track giving CELEBRATE, RECONNECT, AND RENEW YOUR SPIRIT OF MELIORA. you’ll need to know before attending at progress at rochester.edu/reunion. Featuring Soledad O’Brien, Michael Steele, Ron Chernow, Nasim Pedrad, rochester.edu/melioraweekend. Pink Martini and more! rr_July2018_Cover.indd 2 7/31/18 9:42 AM Features July–August 2018 36 Pitching 20 Show Us Politics Your Town: New York City Even before presidents such What do the locals do? There are some as Woodrow Wilson (above) 14,000 alumni who call New York City began throwing Opening Day home. We asked a few for their favorite first pitches, the histories of spots in the city that never sleeps. baseball and the presidency By Robin L. Flanigan were intertwined. English faculty member Curt Smith, a former presidential 28 Committed speechwriter and a baseball broadcasting expert, to Memory considers the connections in a Questions about memory and forgetting new book, The Presidents and drive the work of scholars, artists, the Pastime: The History of and scientists. Interviews by Kathleen Baseball and the White House. McGarvey By Kathleen McGarvey ON THE COVER: Illustration by John W. Tomac for Rochester Review LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (WOODROW WILSON); SHANNON TAGGART FOR ROCHESTER REVIEW (TANYA CHANPHANITPORNKIT ’15E) July–August 2018 ROCHESTER REVIEW 1 rr_July2018_Toc.indd 1 7/31/18 12:03 PM Departments July–August 2018 3 President’s Page | 4 Letters | 62 Books & Recordings In Review 58 Simon Alumni 14 45 Recognized 6 Three Decades of Wilson Day The 58 Eastman School brainchild of Theresa of Music Guenther ’90 turns 30 in 59 School of Medicine August. and Dentistry The 8 Healthy Heroes 59 School of Nursing Warner School of Education welcomes 59 Simon Business School area K-12 students for 59 Warner School its summer engagement of Education programs. 59 In Memoriam 10 A Growing Impact As one of the largest private 60 Remembering Emil employers in New York Wolf A student of the State, Rochester plays noted physicist counts a vital role in the area’s up some of his mentor’s economy, according to a contributions to science new report. and to his colleagues. 12 Discover Measuring light, 64 Manners Matter “fighting” cancer, and Etiquette consultant Jodi more research news. R. R. Smith ’90 offers advice for new graduates 43 A Chance Encounter 48 U of R, U of R, ’68! Fifty 14 “An Audacious and and others on navigating across the Pond Angela years later, classmates Radical Voice” An a diverse and modern Remus ’16 finds a share their memories. exhibition explores the art workplace. Rochester connection at of an outsider whose work 51 Four Years on Campus, Oxford. was almost lost to history. a Lifetime of Friendship 15 Ask the Archivist Is One 43 A Patent and a A close-knit group of Our Libraries Overdue? Milestone The nation’s celebrates the bonds that 10 millionth patent brought them together 16 In Brief The College is awarded to Joseph six decades ago. selects its first set of Marron ’81, ’86 (PhD). summer sustainability 53 Happy Birthday, fellows, the UHS building 44 The Art of Crafting George Eastman! gets another floor, and Your Job A national arts Alumni celebrate other campus news. leader, Emil Kang ’90 took the legacy his first job as a gallery of one of 18 Setting Sights on receptionist and made it Rochester’s Successful Seasons his own. most important Yellowjacket teams gear benefactors. up for the 2018–19 year. 45 Up Close with Kaveh Rastegar ’01E A sought- 57 Graduate after bassist provides a Arts, Sciences & Alumni Gazette glimpse into his world. Engineering 42 The Show Goes On Lusette (Andy) Smith ’72 Class Notes tells about her path 46 College Arts, Sciences & from stage manager to Engineering computer programmer to software engineer and 47 Meet the Young Alumni 64 technology consultant. Council 2 ROCHESTER REVIEW July–August 2018 MEMORIAL ART GALLERY (TOTA); MATT DEMERRITT (RASTEGAR); DAVID COWLES FOR ROCHESTER REVIEW (SMITH) rr_July2018_Toc.indd 2 7/31/18 9:43 AM President’s Page Making an Academic Home at Rochester The University’s intellectual core is thriving as new faculty and students add to Rochester’s research and educational missions. By Richard Feldman new members of our faculty are coming from remarkable places, and their presence The University is an institution character- will add breadth and depth to our research ized by the strength and talent of its people. and educational missions. Our vibrant intellectual core is growing Lisa Kahn, a new professor in the eco- and thriving—and every new academic year nomics department, will join us from Yale brings opportunity for change and renewal. University’s School of Management. She Increasingly, it is a place people want to be. served as the senior economist for labor I recently had the pleasure of welcoming and education policy on President Obama’s Donald Hall as the new Robert L. and Mary Council of Economic Advisors from 2010 to L. Sproull Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sci- 2011. In her current work, she uses data on ences & Engineering. I’m impressed with job vacancy postings to examine whether his energy and creativity, and I know he the Great Recession accelerated technolog- will be a stellar addition to the AS&E deans’ ical change, exacerbating the polarization office. Donald started here in July, coming of the US economy. Her examination of the to us from Lehigh, where he was dean of consequences of graduating from college in Arts & Sciences. He is widely published in an economic downturn won the award for the fields of British studies, gender theory, the best paper published in Labour Eco- cultural studies, and professional stud- nomics in 2010–11. ies and has delivered lectures around the A new director of translational research world on the value of a liberal arts educa- and professor of biomedical genetics and tion, the need for nurturing global compe- the Wilmot Distinguished Professor in tencies in students, and the importance of Our Class of 2022 will be Cancer Genomics comes to us from Em- interdisciplinary dialogue. ory. Paula Vertino will soon join the Med- Donald and other outstanding new fac- among the most selective ical Center and Wilmot Cancer Institute ulty are choosing to come to Rochester be- in the University’s and be responsible for facilitating interac- cause of the richness of our culture and the tion among scientists and clinicians with quality of our people. A big part of the draw history. This year we the goal of accelerating the development is our students. Presented with numerous received more than of laboratory discoveries into technolo- attractive options, the extraordinary stu- gies or treatments for use with patients. dents who will make up incoming classes 20,000 applications Her experience at Emory, which received have similarly chosen to make Rochester for admission to the National Cancer Institute comprehensive their intellectual home. cancer center status, will be instrumental Our incoming College Class of 2022, ar- College—the most on in assisting in Wilmot’s pursuit of the same riving on campus in August, will be among record—from which designation. the most selective in the University’s Eastman welcomes a wonderfully tal- history. This year we received more than fewer than 30 percent ented group of new faculty, including the 20,000 applications for admission to the were admitted. music director of Eastman Opera Theatre, College—the most on record—from which Timothy Long. A musician of Muscogee fewer than 30 percent were admitted. Aver- won first, second, or third place in more Creek and Choctaw descent from the age SAT/ACT two-score equivalent for en- than 50 competitions while also achiev- Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Professor Long tering students this year will surpass 1,400 ing distinction in poetry, chess, figure has received acclaim for his “sharp con- for the second year in a row. I am pleased skating, karate, tennis, swimming, dance, ducting” with operatic engagements that that students from underrepresented mi- power lifting, soccer, and skiing. Seven- have included companies such as the Bos- nority groups will make up 18.3 percent of teen of them will pursue joint degrees with ton Lyric Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, the Juil- the class, and one in five are the first in their AS&E. Our graduate students in business, liard School, New York City Opera, Opera families to go to college.
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