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Trumpets blaring. Men and women clad in medieval costumes. Figgie pudding and "the reading of the Boar." The 82-year-old tradition of Boar's Head Dinner continues this week.

A mixture of theater rookies and veterans, the student cast and crew of Circle Mirror Transformation share some of the insights they鈥檝e gained in working on the production, which runs through December 10.

Dan Bronson鈥� 18, starting quarterback for the Yellowjackets, chased and captured a man who had robbed an elderly woman outside a Lockport, NY restaurant.

Angela Remus, a Des Plaines, Illinois, native, is interviewing to be among the 32 American candidates chosen for the international postgraduate award.

Since its 2013 launch under an award from the National Science Foundation, CeFO has been shaping the future of optical instrumentation on a global scale, and has more than doubled the number of partner companies in just this past year.

As a PhD candidate in biophysics, Karl Smith studies glass filters 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. But his "hidden passion" is crafting stories on demand on his 1926 Underwood typewriter for 10 cents each.

As a freshman, Skylar Cerbone 鈥�20 normally wouldn鈥檛 take Lynda Powell鈥檚 intermediate course, American Elections, this fall. But Cerbone didn鈥檛 want to wait. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a presidential election year,鈥� the political science major says. 鈥淚 had to take this class now. It鈥檚 too important not to.鈥�

The campaign highlights the services available to University community members who every day cope with a disability or have a special accessibility need.

According to a national study, Rochester students voted in the 2012 presidential election at a similar rate to the national average -- at around 42 percent. This year, students share their students of how they have become engaged in what for most will be their first political contest.

Although international students are not eligible to vote, they have plenty to say about this year's American presidential election.

Since he arrived, Laube鈥檚 picked up violin, honed graphic design skills, and actively participated in several cultural groups. 鈥淩ochester works for me,鈥� he says.

Each summer the University allocates thousands of dollars to enable to students to conduct research here or abroad鈥攊ndependently, in a lab, or under the guidance of a professor.