Rochester Review Rochester CHARTING HISTORY CLASS ACTS SIGNATURE CELEBRATION A cartographic look at the Meet some members The University celebrates land that became campus. of the Class of 2023. Meliora Weekend. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER /FALL 2019 FALL 2019 FALL Meliora Milestone ‘My feet on the ground, my head in the clouds, and my focus on Meliora’— Sarah Mangelsdorf is inaugurated as Rochester’s president. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease among children in the United States. Rochester’s Eastman Institute for Oral Health is trying to change that with the nation’s first dental clinic for pregnant women and their babies. Here, education and compassionate care are given freely so that tooth decay is one less thing to worry about. Because healthy teeth make for brighter smiles all around. The Rochester Effect. For smiles ever better. EverBetter.Rochester.edu Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease among children in America. Rochester’s Eastman Institute for Oral Health is trying to change that with the nation’s first dental clinic for pregnant women and their babies. Here, education and compassionate care are given freely so that tooth decay is one less thing to worry about. Because healthy teeth make for brighter smiles all around. The Rochester Effect. For smiles ever better. EverBetter.Rochester.edu 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 FACES 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 ‘GOOD’ BROWN FAT · EXTINCTION THREATENS 60% OF WORLD’S PRIMATES · STRONG RELATIONSHIPS CAN LOWER RISK OF SUICIDE · NEUROTIC PEOPLE MAKE BETTER PET ‘PARENTS’ · PARENTS FEEL WEIRD ABOUT SEX ED FOR LGBTQ TEEN DINOSAURS COULDN’T STICK OUT THEIR TONGUES · SCIENTISTS SLEEP LOSS MAKES PEOPLE ANGRIER · MAGMA UNDER STEM CELLSCLIMB FOR 2ND STRAIGHT YEAR · MOVING DOESN’T AFFECTFIND ODDS OF OUT GETTING FIRST. 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 FALL 2019 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 28 ‘GOOD’ BROWN FAT · EXTINCTION THREATENS 60% OF WORLD’S PRIMATES · STRONG RELATIONSHIPS CAN LOWER Ever More 24 Where Curiosity Is Meliora! ‘Just Part of Life’ Universities are vital institutions. That’s The 19th edition of Meliora Weekend RISK OF SUICIDE · NEUROTIC PEOPLE MAKE BETTER PET ‘PARENTS’ · why accessibility is so important, says served as the setting for the inauguration Sarah Mangelsdorf. Interview by Karen of Sarah Mangelsdorf as Rochester’s McCally ’02 (PhD) PARENTS FEEL WEIRD ABOUT SEX ED FOR LGBTQ TEEN 11th president. The celebration featured reunions (above), events, and activities to showcase the many ways in which 27 Changing Spaces DINOSAURS COULDN’T STICK OUT THEIR TONGUES · SCIENTISTSfaculty, students, alumni, parents, staff, Psychologist Karl Rosengren—also the and special guests endeavor to make the husband of Rochester’s new president— world ever better. both studies and experiences adaptations SLEEP LOSS MAKES PEOPLE ANGRIER · MAGMA UNDER to change. By Lindsey Valich 22 ‘A University of STEM CELLSCLIMB FOR 2ND STRAIGHT YEAR · MOVING Global Consequence’ 32 Taking the Long As Rochester’s president, Sarah View Mangelsdorf promises to “keep my feet Think you know the University DOESN’T AFFECTFIND ODDS OF OUT GETTING FIRST. PREGNANT · BAD MOODS ON THE COVER: Sarah Mangelsdorf holds on the ground, my head in the clouds, campuses and the Rochester terrain? the University mace, one of the ceremonial and my focus on Meliora.” By Jim Early maps show there’s a lot more to the objects that represent her authority as presi- CREATED A NEW QUASICRYSTAL · EYE CELLS CHANGE SENSORS · MICROBIOMEMandelaro and KarenHELPS McCally ’02 (PhD) story. By Matt Cook dent. Photograph by J. Adam Fenster GET TODAY'S TOP RESEARCH NEWS AT FUTURITY.ORG J. ADAM FENSTER Fall 2019 ROCHESTER REVIEW 3 2956_ReviewFuturityAd_FINAL.indd 1 1/15/19 2:40 PM Departments Fall 2019 5 President’s Page | 6 Letters | 62 Books & Recordings In Review 58 School of Medicine and 12 40 Dentistry 8 Electron by Electron Rochester researchers 59 School of Nursing are part of a team 59 Simon Business School that has developed a semiconductor chip that 59 Warner School of uses individual electrons Education to relay information. 60 In Memoriam 10 Now Hear, See, and Feel 61 A ‘True Legend’ at This A new initiative will Rochester: G. Robert train doctoral students in Witmer Jr. ’59 Over ways to apply augmented his six decades as a and virtual reality tech- member of the University nology across a range of community, Robert disciplines. Witmer Jr. ’59 gave time, talent, and resources to 12 The Class of 2023 nearly every corner of the Arrives Meet a few of the undergraduates who institution. joined the University 64 Doctor and Vintner For community this fall. Kerith Overstreet ’98M (MD), the path from 14 Discover How immune cells find their targets, pathologist to winemaker machine learning helps was a smooth one. measure climate change, Alumni Gazette reunions during Meliora and other research news. weekend. 38 Iconic Imagery A 16 University Notebook photographer who 46 Sharing the Spirit of Medical Center selected documented a historic Meliora University to help combat opioid campus era donates volunteers crisis, curtain rises on a collection of 3,000-plus give back to 30th theater season, and images to the University. their local other campus news. communities. 40 It’s Always Rock and 18 Reproduction on the Roll Rochester musicians 49 Lifelong Reservation Historian are rocking all over the Learning Brianna Theobald world. Advisory explores how Native Council American women resisted 41 A Pilot Finds a New Pursuing federal policies to control Mission A former Navy knowledge. their reproductive and pilot makes it her mission family lives. to help others “live 55 Graduate Arts, with hope” by bringing Sciences & 19 Ask the Archivist yoga to populations that Engineering What secrets does the have been left out of the University’s painting of Eastman meditative exercise. 56 Azariah Boody hold? School of Music 20 Sports Quick questions: Class Notes volleyball coach Ladi Iya. 42 College Arts, Sciences & Athletic Hall of Fame 21 Engineering. Eight Yellowjackets named to the Athletic Hall 44 Gatherings of Graduates 64 of Fame. Alumni celebrate class 4 ROCHESTER REVIEW Fall 2019 J. ADAM FENSTER (CLASS OF 2023); SUE SIDZINA (ROCK AND ROLL); DAVID COWLES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (MASTER CLASS) President’s Page New Beginnings The inspiring research, captivating performances, and celebration of community on display during the inauguration and Meliora Weekend showcase why all of us should be excited about the future of the University of Rochester. By Sarah C. Mangelsdorf interdisciplinary faculty panel, whose com- bined expertise in astronomy, biomedical In this issue of Rochester Review, you will engineering, music cognition, education, see a number of wonderful photos from and art history breathed even more life into my formal inauguration as president on our ongoing discussions of how a great aca- October 4, and of the Meliora Weekend demic institution can help frame and solve events that followed. The inauguration was the world’s pressing problems. That these very special to my family and me, and I was interdisciplinary conversations are hap- touched that so many of my friends and for- pening here, at Rochester, is yet another mer colleagues traveled to Rochester to join strength of our University. us. I heard from many other faculty, stu- On a personal note, I was thrilled to at- dents, alumni, and friends how delighted tend a lecture by the author Ann Patchett, they were with the weekend’s events and whose Bel Canto ranks among my favorite festivities, and how excited they were about novels of all time. Her wise and humane the future of the University of Rochester. remarks were particularly inspiring to me, The inauguration ceremony itself was and I delighted in being a fangirl for an splendid in its tradition and structure. hour or so. The audience was transported by East- Most of all, I enjoyed the many wonder- man Dean Jamal Rossi and my dear friend ful conversations—with alumni, students, and colleague from Northwestern, Dean faculty, staff, parents, and community of the Bienen School of Music Toni-Marie members, all of whom were eager to share Montgomery, in their rendition of Rach- their stories about their connections to and maninoff’s Vocalise.