Chemistry
What makes smoky, charred barbecue taste so good?
Professor Kristine Nolin reveals the mouth-watering chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
Features
Entrepreneurship
When college gets delicious
Jimmy James, ’25, takes you inside as 16 students come together to create, develop, and launch a brand-new product and company their senior year.
Arts
University Dancers celebrate 40 years
The anniversary concert showcased the company’s legacy of artists, mentors, and dear friends putting one another in the spotlight.
NCAA Tournament Preview
Six things to know as the Spiders go dancing
Here’s your guide for watching the Spider women in the NCAA Tournament.
Research
I taught rats to drive, but they taught me to enjoy the ride
A neuroscientist on lessons learned from teaching rodents to drive a mini-car.
Portfolio
Look Again: Art for Our Curriculum
A spring exhibition focused on recent acquisitions highlights the university’s art collection as an ongoing record of campus intellectual life.
Inquiry
AI @ UR
Artificial intelligence is now part of higher education. UR’s approach encourages experimentation focused on enhancing student learning.
Curriculum Vitae
The health studies boom
Enrollment in health studies is growing quickly. Here’s an inside look at why students are increasingly choosing it and where it’s taking them.
Music
Meet the professor studying Super Bowl halftime shows
Music professor Joanna Love has built a career studying how pop music, mass culture, and branding overlap, harmonize, and sometimes collide.
Championship Chase
She shoots, she scores
The team’s up-tempo style of play is making it one of the nation’s best shooting teams and one of the most entertaining in the country to watch.
Well-Being
Run. Chat. Marvel. Repeat.
In the golden glow of the rising and setting sun, senior Ava Tankersley is channeling two of her passions — staying fit and building community — with her Sunrise Social Club. Everyone’s welcome.
