人妻少妇专区

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Points
of Pride

Awards and honors

We celebrate 人妻少妇专区 faculty, scholars, artists, alumni, and students who are revolutionizing their fields, discovering ways to address the world's biggest challenges, and making our lives ever better.

Nobel Prizes

2020

Physiology or Medicine

Harvey J. Alter 鈥56, 鈥60M (MD)

2018

Economic Sciences

Paul Romer

Former assistant professor of economics

2018

Physics

Donna Strickland 鈥89 (PhD)


G茅rard Mourou

Former Laboratory for Laser Energetics faculty member and senior scientist

2017

Economic Sciences

Richard Thaler 鈥74 (PhD)

2002

Physics

Masatoshi Koshiba 鈥55 (PhD)

1997

Physics

Steven Chu 鈥70

1993

Economic Sciences

Robert Fogel

Member of the economics faculty in the 1960s and 1970s

1976

Physiology or Medicine

Carleton Gajdusek 鈥43

1959

Physiology or Medicine

Arthur Kornberg 鈥41M (MD)

1955

Chemistry

Vincent du Vigneaud 鈥27 (PhD)

1943

Physiology or Medicine

Henrik Dam

Senior research associate 1942鈥45

1934

Physiology or Medicine

George Whipple

Founding dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry

Pulitzer Prizes

2012

Music

Kevin Puts 鈥94E, 鈥99E (DMA)

Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts

2004

History

Steven Hahn 鈥73

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

1996

Music

George Walker 鈥56E (DMA)

鈥淟ilacs for Voice and Orchestra鈥

1993

Music

Christopher Rouse (Eastman School faculty)

鈥淭rombone Concerto鈥

1983

Poetry

Galway Kinnell 鈥49 (MA)

1979

Music

Joseph Schwantner (Eastman School faculty)

1975

Music

Dominick Argento 鈥58E (DMA)

1968

Poetry

Anthony Hecht (Department of English faculty)

1962

Music

Robert Ward 鈥39E (BM)

1960

Drama

George Abbott 鈥11

1959

Music

John La Montaine 鈥39E (BA)

1952

Music

Gail Kubik 鈥34E (BM)

1944

Music

Howard Hanson (Eastman School faculty)

Guggenheim Fellows

2025

Political science

Gretchen Helmke

Thomas H. Jackson Distinguished University Professor and Faculty Director of the Democracy Center

2021

Architecture, planning and design

Peter Christensen

Associate professor of art history

2017

Poetry

Jennifer Grotz

Professor of English

2006

John Tarduno

Professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

2004

Laura Ackerman Smoller

Professor of History

2002

John P. Huelsenbeck

Associate professor of biology

2001

Hugo Hopenhayn

Associate professor of economics

2000

Alice L. Conklin

Associate professor of history

2000

H. Allen Orr

Associate professor of biology

1999

Janet Catherine Berlo

Professor of art history and of visual and cultural studies

1997

Joan Shelley Rubin

Professor of history

1997

David R. Williams

William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics and director of the Center for Visual Science

1996

Morris Eaves

Professor of English

1996

Shaul Mukamel

Professor of chemistry

1995

James Longenbach

Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English

1994

Linda Levy Peck

Professor of history

1993

John H. Thomas

Professor of mechanical and aerospace sciences and of astronomy

1993

Janet Wolff

Professor of art history and of visual and cultural studies

1992

R. J. Dwayne Miller

Professor of chemistry and of optics

1992

Paul F. Slattery

Professor of physics

1992

Douglas H. Turner

Professor of chemistry

1991

Kenneth Gross

Professor of English

1990

Christopher C. Rouse

Professor of composition, Eastman School of Music

1988

Joanna Scott

Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English

MacArthur Fellows

2017

Derek Peterson 鈥93

Historian with a focus in African history

1992

Joanna Scott

Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English

Making the world ever better

The Rochester environment fuels innovations and fosters collaborations to take on the world鈥檚 biggest challenges.

Students in cap and gowns at 人妻少妇专区 graduation ceremony

Top employers

Amazon, Ernst & Young, Google, Lockheed Martin, and Microsoft are some of the top employers of recent 人妻少妇专区 graduating classes. (Source)

professor looking through an optical instrument on a lab workbench.

First in optics

The University鈥檚 Institute of Optics was the nation鈥檚 first optical science, engineering, and design program and has granted over half of all degrees in optics awarded in the United States.

Lasers firing a target  Laboratory for Laser Energenics laser array.

Most powerful laser systems

The Laboratory for Laser Energetics is the largest university-based US Department of Energy program in the nation and home to the largest and most powerful laser systems found at any academic institution in the world.

Statue of boy and girl figures kissing. Created by Tom Otterness at 人妻少妇专区 Memorial Art Gallery.

Memorial Art Gallery

Referred to as the 鈥渕ini MET,鈥 the