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鈥淚t鈥檚 amazing, but a lot of the kids don鈥檛 realize they can鈥檛 see.鈥� Logan Newman has seen many students get their first pair of glasses through an innovative program that trains East High students for careers in the optical field while providing vision care services for their fellow students.

The assistant professor of history is known for having students reenact battle scenes, conduct 鈥渞ocket鈥� tests, and write propaganda campaigns to try to bring the era of the Korean War to life.

The third Bright Line Watch survey, co-authored by Rochester political scientist Gretchen Helmke, focuses on the health of U.S. democratic institutions and compares the results from thousands of political professionals with the general public.

Historian Derek Peterson ’93 has been awarded one of this year’s John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships鈥攃ommonly known as the 鈥済enius grant鈥濃�攆or his work in reshaping the understanding of African colonialism and nationalism.

The SMILEmobile鈥攁 self-contained traveling dental clinic鈥攊s wheelchair-accessible and designed to reach underserved or hard-to-reach populations.

Joanne Larson takes academic-scientific knowledge of best practices directly to East High鈥檚 classrooms, support staff, administrators, and teachers. She says the school feels 鈥�180 degrees different.鈥�

The University鈥檚 vice provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of University Libraries has started her term as the new president national association representing 125 leading research libraries in the United States and Canada.

The Mt. Hope Family Center sits on a two-way street. Its researchers and clinicians have provided evidence-based services to at-risk families, while training the next generation of clinicians and research scientists.

Krystel Huxlin has developed rigorous visual training that can restore some of the basic vision lost to traumatic brain injury, stroke, or a tumor. Here Huxlin discusses how this therapy teaches undamaged parts of the brain to take over.