Rochester Review Rochester GRAPHIC NOVELIST DEPTH OF FIELD SIGNAL ACHIEVEMENT A senior draws readers See the world in Rochester’s NROTC battalion into challenging topics. students’ photos. celebrates 75 years of service. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER /WINTER 2020 We Love LA! Award-winning musicians Jeff ’85E and Joan Beal ’84E and other alumni guides introduce you to the City of Angels. WINTER 2020 WINTER UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Eastman School of Music graduates add rhythm to our daily lives. They hum through our minds with unforgettable melodies and stir our souls with powerful composition s—to the tune of more than 150 Grammy wins and nominations in the past 25 years. This mastery of music is everywhere, resounding on our personal playlists and inside grand concert halls and recording studios, blending notes and uniting cultures. The Rochester Effect. For artistry ever better. EverBetter.Rochester.edu Eastman School of Music graduates add rhythm to our daily lives. They hum through our minds with unforgettable melodies and stir our souls with powerful composition s—to the tune of more than 150 Grammy wins and nominations in the past 25 years. This mastery of music is everywhere, resounding on our personal playlists and inside grand concert halls and recording studios, blending notes and uniting cultures. The Rochester Effect. For artistry ever better. 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PREGNANT · BAD MOODS CREATED A NEW QUASICRYSTAL · EYE CELLS CHANGE SENSORS · MICROBIOME HELPS GET TODAY'S TOP RESEARCH NEWS AT FUTURITY.ORG 2956_ReviewFuturityAd_FINAL.indd 1 1/15/19 2:40 PM EXERCISE AT NIGHT WON’T MESS UP YOUR SLEEP · TIME WITH KIDS CARRIES EXTRA STRAIN FOR MOMS · BABIES BORN AT HOME HAVE MORE DIVERSE BACTERIA · CRISIS LOOMS FOR CHOCOLATE DUE TO MYSTERIOUS BLIGHT · EXPRESSIVE FACESFeatures WINTER 2020 PREDICT WHO’S LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE · GECKOS USE SLAPPING TO ‘WALK ON WATER’ · ONCE YOU LACK FOLATE, THE DAMAGE CAN’T BE FIXED · NEURONS MADE FROM AROUND NOW MAY IMPROVE YO UR MOOD LATER · MARIJUANA MIGHT BE A SIGN OF HEALTH TROUBLE · SCIENTISTS HAVE JOBS TO SEE BETTER AT NIGHT · 1 HOUR OF WEIGHTS A WEEK MAY CUT ANT INVASION · ROBOT FINGERS TOUCH WITH FIBER OPTIC SYSTEM · TEEMING ANTS ACT LI KE BOTH A LIQUID AND A SOLID · TURN TOFU BYPRODUCT IN TO BOOZE · EVEN OCCASIONAL VOLCANOES IS LIKE A LEAK Y SNOW CONE · HALF OF PARENTS TALK ON THE PHONE WHILE DRIVING KIDS · 45% OF UK SCIENTISTS DON’T BELIEVE IN GOD · STATINS REDUCE YOUR 24 ‘GOOD’ BROWN FAT · EXTINCTION THREATENS 60% OF WORLD’S PRIMATES · STRONG RELATIONSHIPS CAN LOWER Salute to NROTC 32 30 Drawn to Senior midshipmen Katarina Vogel Storytelling RISK OF SUICIDE · NEUROTIC PEOPLE MAKE BETTER PET ‘PARENTS’(Marine · option), Joseph Ginnane, and Senior philosophy major Daniela Shapiro Kaileigh Davis (both Navy)—above, from creates graphic novels to help others left—are among the latest members of understand the emotional and personal PARENTS FEEL WEIRD ABOUT SEX ED FOR LGBTQ TEEN Rochester’s Naval ROTC corps who will stories behind traumatic events. By Jim transition to officer training programs Mandelaro after graduation. One of the longest- DINOSAURS COULDN’T STICK OUT THEIR TONGUES · SCIENTISTSrunning continuous programs in the Show us Your country, the University’s NROTC unit 32 celebrates 75 years of leadership and Town: Los Angeles SLEEP LOSS MAKES PEOPLE ANGRIER · MAGMA UNDER service this year. By Jim Mandelaro; With a strong economy, a bustling photographs by J. Adam Fenster downtown, and, yes, a creative mojo STEM CELLSCLIMB FOR 2ND STRAIGHT YEAR · MOVING that’s second to none, Los Angeles has earned its role as a cultural and commercial crossroads, and a place that defines the Southern California lifestyle, DOESN’T AFFECTFIND ODDS OF OUT GETTING FIRST. PREGNANT · BAD MOODSON THE COVER: Joan ’84E and Jeff Beal ’85E say some of the 2,700 or so Rochester photographed at the Walt Disney Concert alumni who call the region home. By Hall in Los Angeles. Photograph by Christina CREATED A NEW QUASICRYSTAL · EYE CELLS CHANGE SENSORS · MICROBIOME HELPS Kristine Thompson Gandolfo for the University of Rochester. GET TODAY'S TOP RESEARCH NEWS AT FUTURITY.ORG J. ADAM FENSTER (MIDSHIPMEN); CHRISTINA GANDOLFO FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (LOS ANGELES) Winter 2020 ROCHESTER REVIEW 3 2956_ReviewFuturityAd_FINAL.indd 1 1/15/19 2:40 PM Departments Winter 2020 5 President’s Page | 6 Letters | 62 Books & Recordings In Review 53 Meet a Student Alumni 14 20 Ambassador A senior 8 New Sites, New Sounds hopes to inspire others as . New Studio A new they have inspired her. recording studio opens in Gavett Hall. 57 Graduate Arts, Sciences & Engineering 10 Smithsonian Science An Armenian prayer book 57 Eastman School of owned by the Smithsonian Music Institution traveled to 59 School of Medicine and Rochester this winter. Dentistry 12 Mapper of the Universe 59 School of Nursing Physics postdoctoral research associate Satya 59 Simon Business School Gontcho A Gontcho helps 59 Warner School of lead a major initiative in Education cosmology. 59 In Memoriam 14 Larger Than Light Professor emeritus Ching 61 Remembering Ray Tang earns international MacConnell The legacy recognition for research of an “honorary uncle” that has resulted in a form to students who worked of light-emitting diodes. at Rochester’s student newspaper. 15 Ask the Archivist series that’s earning wide Class Notes Who Were My Deaf praise for its depiction of 64 Manners of Speaking Predecessors? black Americans. 44 College Arts, Sciences & Voice coach Nick DiCola Engineering. ’07 helps actors for stage 16 Discover Is an unsinkable 40 Carnatic Crossover and screen—as well ship on the horizon? and Genre-hopping 47 Introducing Sarah as automated voices— other research questions. percussionist Rohan Mangelsdorf The achieve authenticity in Krishnamurthy ’13E (PhD) University’s top executive spoken language. 18 University Notebook infuses contemporary jazz introduces herself to Rochester professor and funk with an ancient alumni around the selected to help identify Indian musical tradition. country. World Heritage sites, and other news. 41 In the News National 48 Where Is honors for a Nobel Everyone? With 20 Education Abroad: laureate; an alumnus to nearly 120,000 Depth of Field Winners lead Vanderbilt; a human alumni, the of the annual Education rights recognition. Rochester Abroad Photo Contest community A share their images. 42 Behind the Scenes spans the veteran film producer globe. 22 Sports A Scholar All- shares insight into some of American and a preview his major box office hits. of the spring seasons. 43 Steps to Success Branding and marketing Alumni Gazette executive Michael 38 ‘I Also Saw the Women Goldstein ’01 offers Who Came Before Me’ lessons from working Child advocacy lawyer with leaders in the Ileah Welch ’05 is selected international sporting for a prominent portrait world. 64 COURTESY OF THE INAMORI FOUNDATION (TOP, LEFT); COURTESY OF JESSICA FABRIZIO-STOVER ’20 (TOP, RIGHT); 4 ROCHESTER REVIEW Winter 2020 DAVID COWLES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (DICOLA) President’s Page In, of, and for the Community A national recognition celebrates the University’s long-standing commitments to the communities it calls home. By Sarah C. Mangelsdorf more than 900 at-risk children and families annually in the Rochester area, while also At my inauguration last fall, I stressed my training the next generation of clinicians commitment to continuing the University and researchers. This work has become a of Rochester’s enduring engagement with model both nationally and internationally our home city and region. As recognition in providing intervention, prevention, and of that commitment, I am delighted to an- support to the youngest and most vulner- nounce that the Carnegie Foundation for able in our society. the Advancement of Teaching has for the The University has also helped the work first time selected the University of Roch- of revitalizing Rochester’s downtown, cre- ester to receive its prestigious Community ating the downtown Innovation Zone, an- Engagement Classification. chored by NextCorps, the University’s The classification recognizes “the col- 40,000-square-foot business incubator, laboration between institutions of higher which opened in 2018. Located in the ren- education and their larger communities ovated Sibley Building, NextCorps is the (local, regional/state, national, global) Finger Lakes region’s only federally and for the mutually beneficial exchange of state designated business incubator, and knowledge and resources in a context of over the last five years has helped around partnership and reciprocity.” Earning this 100 start-up companies here and statewide.