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graphic illustration of inflation targets showing a bulls-eye with different percent figures labeled on each ring. The arrow is hitting the ring labeled 5%.

Society & Culture

Why the pandemic economy鈥檚 higher inflation rate is 鈥榓 short-term blip鈥�

Rochester economist Narayana Kocherlakota says a return to 1970s levels of inflation is unlikely鈥攂ut offers a cautionary note.

Society & Culture

Radicalized and believing in conspiracies: Can the cycle be broken?

Rochester political scientist Scott Tyson says the growing belief in conspiracist narratives has led to the increased radicalization of average Americans.

Portrait of a couple holding pregnant belly

Society & Culture

Partners play pivotal role in pregnant women鈥檚 alcohol use, which affects their babies鈥� development

Rochester psychologists say successful intervention efforts need to include partners of mothers-to-be.

historical image looking down a street with burned out building lining both sides.

Society & Culture

100 years later, remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre

As one of the oldest survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, Olivia Hooker 鈥�62 (PhD) helped break decades of silence about the atrocity.

three year book portraits side by side

Society & Culture

Memorial Day: 鈥楥ourage, service, and sacrifice鈥�

Each Memorial Day, we remember and honor the 蘑菇传媒 students, faculty, staff, and alumni who died while serving in the armed forces.

An assistant paints part of a mural by artist Dragon76 that reads "Stop Asian Hate" in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Society & Culture

To drill down on anti-Asian hate crimes, Rochester researchers harness social media

Information gleaned from thousands of Twitter users lets the researchers gauge public opinion toward #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate.

Cars stopped at Northern Ireland border in 1950.

Society & Culture

100 years on: The partition of Ireland explained

Stewart Weaver offers an explainer on the partition of Ireland, which took place a century ago.

Thomas Edison standing next to model house.

Society & Culture

How patents transformed the world of architecture

Associate professor of art history Peter Christensen has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim fellowship for his project exploring an understudied shift in architectural history.

Face of Frances Seward.

Society & Culture

History project tells a more complete story of Frances Seward

Three women in the history PhD program have completed a video project showing the wife of Lincoln鈥檚 secretary of state as more influential than typically depicted.

Himalayas climate change environmental history

Society & Culture

Rochester Himalayan project receives environmental history award

Work to preserve testimonies of a people and their culture is recognized as an 鈥渙utstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship.鈥�

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Society & Culture

Republican and Democratic voters agree on one thing鈥攖he need for generous COVID-19 relief

February 26, 2021

The latest Bright Line Watch survey finds that voters support COVID-19聽relief spending, but partisan divides remain over the election and impeachment.

archival photo of Mary Young, seating as desk in front of a blackboard, speaking.

Society & Culture

Mary Young remembered as a trailblazer in the field of Native American history

February 19, 2021

At the University for more than 25 years, she was among the first scholars of her generation to see Native Americans as major, rather than secondary characters, in the American story.