Carl Chiarenza, an artist-in-residence and a professor emeritus in the at the 做厙勛圖, is being remembered as a notable American photographer and an erudite scholar.

Chiarenza, who died in May at the age of 90, was the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art and Art History from 1986 until he retired in 1998. After retirement, he was named artist-in-residence and remained available for critiques and classroom visits.

Internationally known as a photographer specializing in abstract imagery, Chiarenza created photographs featured in more than 90 one-person and more than 280 group exhibitions since 1957. He authored numerous monographs and essays, as well as a seminal biography of American photographer Aaron Siskind called Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors��(Little, Brown and Company, 1982).

Beyond his contributions to photography and scholarship, Chiarenza was widely admired for his generosity and warmth.

���The multitude of things that distinguish Carl as a scholar and as an artist are all secondary to the fact that he was a fine human and a generous citizen,��� says , a professor of art and the chair of the Department of Art and Art History. ���I don���t remember many of the countless topics we covered over breakfast at the Frog Pond or Highland Diner in Rochester, but the warmth and wholly uncommon generosity of spirit is something I still embrace from every one of those times���they live with me.���

A trailblazer in photographic scholarship

Chiarenza earned an AAS in 1955 and a BFA in 1957 from Rochester Institute of Technology. He went on to earn an MS in 1959 and an AM in 1964 from Boston University.

In 1973, he became the first person to earn an art history PhD in photography from Harvard University.

���Carl ruffled feathers there by intending to write a dissertation not only on a living ��artist, but on a photographer���two categories that had never before been found worthy in that department,��� recalls , a professor emerita of art history at 做厙勛圖. ���It is a tribute to his talent, and the force of his will, that he was allowed to proceed.���

Chiarenza lectured and conducted workshops at more than 100 institutions in 33 states during his academic career.

Before his tenure at 做厙勛圖, Chiarenza was a professor of art history at Boston University, where he served in the roles of chairman and director of graduate studies. He also taught at Smith College and Cornell University.

���He enjoyed teaching his lectures on the history of photography by starting with a cave painting,��� says artist and landscape designer Heidi Katz, Chiarenza���s wife of 48 years. ���He loved his smaller engaging seminars, some co-taught with colleagues from other disciplines. But finally, he loved being artist-in-residence with his own studio space on the University campus for several years after he retired.���

Finding mystery in the ordinary

Described by colleagues as a prolific and tenacious artist, Chiarenza worked predominantly in black and white, producing photography of collages made from materials such as torn paper and various foils.

His creative process often included the other art form about which he was passionate: music. ���He never worked in the darkroom or studio without music being a part of it,��� says Katz, adding that Chiarenza was a singer and musician who played the saxophone and clarinet.

Chiarenza���s works���from collages to single and multiple large format prints���are collected on , and catalogues include Journey into the Unknown, which accompanied a at the Eastman House in 2021.

An Eastman House description of the retrospective noted, ���Rather than create straightforward records of the cast-off materials that appear before his camera, Chiarenza photographically transforms them into new and provocative images. [��因 His photographs often bear little resemblance to their actual subjects and instead suggest mysterious worlds that viewers are invited to explore.���

A legacy in art and education

Chiarenza���s academic and artistic contributions leave a legacy in the worlds of art, photography, and research. The archive of his artwork is housed at the in Richmond, Virginia, and his papers are at Harvard University.

Along with his artistry. Chiarenza���s legacy includes the artists, students, and scholars he mentored throughout his career.

���When I turn the key to my studio, I bring with me an audience of three,��� says Topolski, adding that Chiarenza was a friend and mentor for 30 years. ���Along with my father, who gives me confidence and checks the standard of my craft, and my mentor from grad school who taught me how to embed meaning into process, Carl is there to remind me that what I do is wholly important as long as it is wholly genuine. And being genuine in my studio is respecting it relative to what envelops it���kinship and family.���

Chiarenza is survived by his wife and three adult children, Jonah, Gabriella, and Suzanne.

Stress is the body���s natural reaction to a challenge. While our psychological, behavioral, and biological responses to stress can be beneficial, chronic stress can have serious negative health implications. At the new Resilience Research Center, faculty from across the 做厙勛圖 investigate why some people bounce back from stress, trauma, and adversity and others don���t���and what can be done about it.

, Dean���s Professor, , and Professor, Departments of and :

���My research focuses on early-life exposures to neighborhood and community sources of stress and how those exposures affect health throughout the life course.

In looking at how the pandemic exacerbated the overdose crisis, we found that pre-pandemic community vulnerability and local economic conditions, as measured by high unemployment, explained most of the large increases in overdose mortality through 2022. We also found that access to substance-use treatment during pregnancy improved outcomes for mothers and infants, including reducing preterm birth and severe maternal morbidity. In terms of environmental exposures during pregnancy, our team has found adverse infant and maternal outcomes with exposures to traffic, shale gas development, low-quality public drinking water, hazardous waste management, construction projects, and extreme heat.

has led me to say environmental policy and economic policy are health policy. Policies that target improving community contexts and building community resilience are likely to have meaningful returns on investment, leading to improved health and well-being over the long term.���

, Professor, , and Executive Director, :

���There are remarkable stories of resilience, of people who have come from amazingly difficult systems, families, experiences. For three decades I have studied how early adversity and trauma impact human development at various levels of functioning. The bulk of has focused on child sexual abuse, and my work has contributed to foundational knowledge that explains the vast mental and physical health disparities exhibited by survivors.

These disparities include difficulties in social relationships with peers, parents, romantic partners, and even with one���s own children. Marked mental health difficulties, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and an overactive stress-response system can disrupt key stress-regulated physiological systems associated with health and longevity. These disruptions affect our ability to fight off disease and can set the stage for metabolic and behavioral problems.

I pay particular attention to variables, conditions, and contexts that help explain why some survivors emerge relatively unscathed in comparison to their peers, as these are clues to early intervention and prevention.���

, Professor, and Departments of and , and Associate Chief of Research,�� :

���Stress is experienced across the lifespan. What changes are the challenges or stressors we face. Children absolutely feel stress, whether from school pressures, family circumstances, or social dynamics. Adolescents often experience stress around identity and belonging, while adults may juggle work and caregiving or financial strain. For older adults, stress combined with aging can increase the risk for poor health in later life.

My current focus is on finding ways to promote well-being and immune health in caregivers of a family member with dementia, as well as individuals at risk for dementia. We found that improving attention and the speed at which stressed caregivers processed information���using computerized cognitive training���also improved their memory performance under laboratory stress. Importantly, cognitive training also lessened their negative emotional responses to memory problems and challenging behaviors of their family member with dementia, suggesting that these brain games can build caregivers��� cognitive and emotional resilience.���

, a political scientist at the whose research focuses on how people form opinions and how that translates into political and social phenomena, has been elected a member of the .

Membership in the National Academy of Sciences is awarded to scholars in recognition of distinguished and continual achievements in original research. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in the scientific community, and Druckman is among 120 members and 25 international members elected in 2026.

���I���m extremely honored and appreciative of all the opportunities I have had throughout my career,��� says Druckman, the Martin Brewer Anderson Professor of Political Science. ���It is special to receive the honor, too, while at 做厙勛圖, which has long had a department at the forefront of advances in political science.���

Druckman, a renowned expert in political polarization and American democracy, has published seven books and more than 200 articles and book chapters in political science, communication, economics, sciences, and psychology journals.

He is involved in several prominent initiatives including sitting on the boards of , the , the , and the board of trustees for the . He is also a principal investigator for the .

The National Academy of Sciences, a private, nonprofit institution, was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Along with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine, it provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.

Druckman joins a prestigious list of current selected to the academy in past years, including , the Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus; , the Charles Frederick Houghton Professor of Chemistry; , the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; and , the William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics.

The ���s (MHFC) has received a $1.7 million grant from to improve health outcomes for expecting parents and infants across the county.

The new funding from the Monroe County Department of Public Health will allow MHFC to launch the Building Healthy Communities (BHComm) initiative, an expansion of their nationally recognized Building Healthy Children program. All pregnant women, new parents, and infants within the system will have access to enhanced screening, outreach, and home-based services���making access to early support more universal, equitable, and responsive to family needs.

���Mt. Hope Family Center has been in partnership with the Monroe County Department of Human Services for decades, but this award from the county will expand our reach and evidence-based services to a whole new level at a time when it is needed most,��� says , executive director of the Mt. Hope Family Center. ���I am deeply grateful to County Executive Adam Bello for his leadership and support and to Congressman Joe Morelle and Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand for making this program expansion possible.���

She continues, ���We are thrilled to share this award with our long-time colleagues in the at , whose enduring partnership now offers new avenues to prevent child abuse, improve maternal and infant outcomes, and meet the mental health needs of more families than we have ever reached before.���

The Social Work Division at Strong Memorial Hospital and is excited to expand its reach by bringing much needed support and resources to patients in our community through our partnership with Mt. Hope Family Center, says Mardy Sandler, director of the Social Work Division.

���BHComm offers broad outreach to an underserved, perinatal population at a time when patients are most inclined to seek help and support as they prepare to deliver and receive a new baby,��� Sandler says. ���This critical timing of service integrated with the healthcare team has potential to optimally impact maternal and newborn outcomes, secure essential resources for a safe and nurturing environment and respond effectively to perinatal behavioral health conditions.���

About the Building Healthy Communities program

The BHComm program is a free pregnancy support program for expecting parents in Monroe County. Through a partnership with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, BHComm coordinates referrals with URMC���s and URMC���s to screen, evaluate, and provide various levels of service to pregnant women and new families within the URMC system and beyond.

BHComm is positioned to focus additional outreach and services in high-need zip codes to address persistent disparities in maternal and infant health and mortality across the community. Along with direct services, BHComm will launch community-wide awareness and prevention efforts designed for parents, healthcare providers, practitioners, and the general public. These campaigns will promote healthy parenting, early help-seeking, and stronger connections between families and local resources.

Elected officials praise BHComm

Elected officials applaud the initiative to improve maternal, infant, and community health outcomes.

Monroe County Executive Adam Bello: ���Nothing is more fundamental to a community���s well-being than the health of our families. For years, the Mt. Hope Family Center has been a lifeline for thousands of parents, meeting new moms and dads where they are and delivering comprehensive, wraparound support both before and after pregnancy. This proven model has changed Monroe County families for the better, and we are proud to invest American Rescue Plan funding to expand its reach and impact across our community.���

Congressman Joe Morelle: ���Every mother deserves access to quality care, and every child deserves a healthy start in life. I’m proud to have��secured this federal funding to help ensure more mothers and babies in our community get the support they need to thrive. I���m grateful to all our partners in this effort, including URMC and the Mt. Home Family Center, and I look forward to our continued work together.���

US Senator Charles Schumer: ���Mt. Hope Family Center and UR Medicine are doing the kind of smart, community-based work that helps mothers and babies get healthier starts and helps families get stronger support when they need it most. That is why I fought to deliver funding through the��American Rescue Plan��so Monroe County���s leading health institutions could expand programs that improve maternal and infant health outcomes and help close longstanding disparities in care. This $1.7 million investment will help Mt. Hope Family Center���s Building Healthy Communities program build on 做厙勛圖���s vital clinical and community partnerships to expand outreach, strengthen care connections, and better support expecting parents, new mothers, and infants across Monroe County.���

US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: ���Mt. Hope Family Center has long been recognized for their evidence-based interventions to support child development and families, and I���m pleased to have helped secure funding through the American Rescue Plan Act to allow MFHC to launch the Building Healthy Communities (BHComm) program. In partnership with Monroe County, BHComm will address maternal health disparities across Monroe County through a community-based program that meets new mothers and families during the critical time before infant delivery. I���m grateful for the work of Mt. Hope Family Center and Monroe County to lead transformative efforts to improve maternal health outcomes.���

When cultural anthropologist traveled to the port city of Veracruz to conduct research, she intended to study Black people in Mexico. Instead, her research became an exploration of a city with people who may not necessarily identify as Afro-Mexican, but who were nonetheless knowledgeable and, in some instances, deeply connected to Mexican Blackness.

Frierson���s book (University of California Press, 2025) is the culmination of two years of research. Prior to joining the 做厙勛圖���s in 2024, she spent nearly a decade visiting and living in Veracruz, located on the coast of east-central Mexico.

The book examines how Veracruzanos���natives or residents of the city���reckon with the Afro-Caribbean roots of their history, traditions, and culture. The Afro-Mexican population, which has struggled for recognition, was in the Mexican census for the first time in 2020.

���Local color is an homage to the people who have been on the receiving end of a new-to-them narrative about Mexico���s Blackness and what they did with that narrative,��� says Frierson.

Public spaces offer lessons on Afro-Mexican heritage

From 2014 to 2016, Frierson conducted research on African heritage and influence in Mexico���a legacy Mexican residents refer to as ���the third root,��� the first two being their Indigenous and Spanish origins.

While immersing herself in the region���s communities, she observed various local affinity groups that cohered around the places and practices associated with jarocho (pronounced ha-RO-cho) legacy and traditions. (During the colonial era, the Spanish word jarocho referred to people of mixed Indigenous and African ancestry; since the 20th century, it has been used throughout Mexico to mean people from Veracruz more broadly.) In the book, Frierson refers to the affinity groups she focused on as jarocho publics.

Frierson studied local musical traditions and attended talks, among other activities, to build rapport and gain understanding. Her participation in local life broke the ice and made locals comfortable opening up about their heritage.

���They knew I was there to study the third root,��� she says. ���I spent that time sitting with people, dancing with people, playing music, drinking coffee with people, and understanding their lives and how Blackness is incorporated into their lives.���

Frierson���s interest in learning more about the African legacy in Mexico was sparked while living in California after earning an undergraduate degree and working for an education nonprofit before graduate school. In 2009, after viewing the exhibition The African Presence in M矇xico: From Yanga to the Present at the Oakland Museum of California, she left with the impression that the Gulf State of Veracruz had a rich history. And yet she wondered about its Black present.

Expanding what it means to be Black in Mexico���and around the world

Before conducting fieldwork in Veracruz, Frierson found that many scholars who had traveled to the port city concluded that Black residents in Veracruz were in denial about their Afro-Mexican roots. Upon her own arrival in Veracruz, Frierson quickly understood why these previous researchers came to that conclusion.

Frierson recalls initial conversations with locals during which she inquired about the Black Mexican population in Veracruz and was told, ���There are no Black people here anymore.��� Or, Frierson says, it was not uncommon to encounter someone in Veracruz who says, ���I am not Black,��� even though in the United States, they would be characterized as such.

Yet once Frierson engaged in more sit-down talks and participated in community activities, the discussion shifted. In time, the Veracruzanos she interviewed would voluntarily acknowledge their connections to Afro-Mexican heritage, clarifying that ���this thing I do is Caribbean.���

���I don���t think of that as denial,��� Frierson says. ���Just because they might not self-recognize as the political subject of being Black Mexican or Afro-Mexican doesn���t mean they are denying Blackness.��� In fact, she argues, by misguidedly privileging self-recognition or self-identification as Black, ���we are going to miss the broader impacts of the African diaspora not only in the Americans specifically, but also in the world more broadly.���

Frierson hopes academics and a general audience take many things away from Local Color. Perhaps most importantly, the book functions as a call for nuanced definitions about what constitutes Blackness in the world, beyond the narrowness of physical bodies and skin color.

���I want people to think more expansively about Blackness and its generative possibilities���world-making, place-making,��� she says. ���And if we think more expansively, we can get to a more productive understanding of why it matters.���

The has awarded the 做厙勛圖 a $1.3 million grant for research at the forefront of how light and matter interact. The project, titled ���Quantum Electrodynamics for Selective Transformations,��� aims to create new chemistry using quantum light. The ambitious project has the potential to unlock new opportunities for chemical and material synthesis.

���We are thrilled to receive support from the W. M. Keck Foundation that will allow us to pursue high-risk, high-reward research that we hope will open up new frontiers at the intersection of chemistry, photonics, and quantum science,” says , the Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering in the and the .

Krauss leads a team of researchers that includes , the Dean and Laura Marvin Endowed Professor in Physical Chemistry and an associate professor of optics; Dan Weix at the University of Wisconsin���Madison (and former faculty member at 做厙勛圖), and Rachel Bangle at North Carolina A&T State University.

���The work of Professor Krauss and his team is an example of Rochester���s long tradition of working across cutting-edge disciplines to advance science and improve our understanding of the physical world,��� says University President Sarah Mangelsdorf. ���We���re grateful for the support of the W. M. Keck Foundation in recognizing the enormous potential in this research.���

Using quantum light to create new chemistry

A grand challenge in the field of chemistry is controlling chemical bond formation at any stage in a reaction.

Chemistry is governed by an established set of rules that dictate how simple molecules react with each other to form new, more complex molecules. These rules are related to how electrons are distributed in the molecules and underpin the field of synthetic chemistry. The constraints imposed by these rules have a direct impact on society because they can limit access to potential new drugs or materials. In the past, chemists have used temperature, pressure, light, and other ways to control and perform chemistry.

For the newly funded project, 做厙勛圖 researchers and their colleagues at other institutions seek to discover if it is possible to use the quantum light of an optical cavity to bend or break these fundamental rules of reactivity by changing how electrons are distributed. To test the idea, researchers will couple light inside an optical cavity to the electronic states of molecules, forming a hybrid light-matter state called an electron-polariton.

While polariton chemistry has the potential to alter the fundamental rules of chemical reactivity, verifying this new concept experimentally has been challenging because of the varied expertise required. To overcome that hurdle, Krauss has assembled just such a diverse team, including synthetic organic chemists, materials scientists, spectroscopists, and theoreticians, who will work to help establish this new field of research.

Krauss notes, ���It isn���t often that one has the chance to discover a new set of rules that govern the makeup of matter in the universe.���

About the Keck Foundation

The W. M. Keck Foundation was established in 1954 in Los Angeles by William Myron Keck, founder of The Superior Oil Company. One of the nation���s largest philanthropic organizations, the W. M. Keck Foundation supports outstanding science, engineering, and medical research. The foundation also supports undergraduate education and maintains a program within Southern California to support arts and culture, education, health, and community service projects.

There is a long-standing debate in the field of music cognition about the impact of musical training and whether formal training is needed to pick up higher-order tonal structures���the overarching harmonic framework of a piece of music.

New research from the 做厙勛圖, published in , offers fresh insight into that discussion. The findings suggest that nonmusicians have a surprisingly sophisticated ear when it comes to music.

���Formal training in music���including music theory���fine-tunes the ear to pick up tonal patterns in music, like tonic, dominant, and cadences,��� says , an assistant professor in the Departments of and and the senior author of the study. ���But it turns out that with zero training, people are actually picking up on those structures just from listening to music over the lifespan.���

Music���s hidden structure

Like language, music is organized hierarchically into notes, phrases, and sections. But until now, relatively little was known about how expert performers and complete novices process these layers.

The study team���co-led by Riesa Cassano-Coleman, a PhD candidate in brain and cognitive sciences, and Sarah Izen, a former postdoc in brain and cognitive sciences���used a novel method to scramble music at different timescales to provide participants with different amounts of tonal context.

Context is crucial in daily life and decision-making. In music, it���s especially critical���in film soundtracks, for example, the build-up of context creates a strong sense of suspense, or romantic anticipation.

When asked to perform tasks that required them to use context, such as predicting upcoming notes or remembering previously heard notes, it appeared nonmusicians were using music theory knowledge, but fully unconsciously.

���Across a variety of tasks,��� says Piazza, ���nonmusicians performed similarly to musicians.���

Putting context to the test��

The study consisted of four experiments���memory, prediction, event segmentation, and categorization���in which participants responded to scrambled music from Tchaikovsky���s collection of piano pieces Album for the Young.

In the prediction experiment, for example, participants listened to context prompts scrambled at three timescales: 8B (eight bars, or measures, of intact context), 2B (scrambled every two bars), and 1B (scrambled every bar). After each sequence, they were asked to predict which measure should come next.

The results from this experiment suggest that musicians and nonmusicians integrate increasing amounts of context at similar rates to enhance prediction. Both groups became more accurate as the information about the tonal structures increased. And the amount of musical training did not predict better overall performance.

Where music meets language

The 做厙勛圖 study is analogous to a recent line of ��that investigates the neural mechanisms of scrambled language, in which words, sentences, or paragraphs are reordered to test how much context the brain can process.

We know from cognitive science that context helps the brain forecast upcoming events, informing our next action. For instance, prediction helps us catch a ball, navigate around people in front of us on the sidewalk, or finish a friend���s sentence.

���In the neuroscience of language, there are different brain areas in charge of considering context that is either very short or very long,��� says Piazza. ���This is an exciting new field that has potential for revealing how context processing changes across the lifespan and how it might interact with aging and cognitive decline.���

The 做厙勛圖 study is one of the first to investigate this phenomenon in music. Together, the findings raise new questions about how the brain integrates and deploys context���not only during listening, but amid the complex motor and memory demands of performance.

���I think there is a lot of potential to look at, for example, how highly trained musicians are doing this while they play,��� Piazza says. ���A lot of musicians feel like they hold their memory of a piece in their fingers. What are the motor processes for having that whole context stored up as they play? This research could have broader implications about how the brain uses this sort of context.���

Lectures presented by Professor center on collaboration, not recitation.

���Instead of seeing myself as a messenger of knowledge, I consider teaching as an interactive process where students and I figure out things together,��� says Clark, a professor of instruction in the ���s . ���I want students to be engaged with the material. Ideally, they should be constantly asking questions. And I want them to think like scientists. That���s my major goal.���

Clark���s interactive approach to instruction, which includes in-class discussions, workshops, and frequent office hours, earned the biologist this year���s Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Nominations for the Goergen Award come from students, faculty, staff members, and administrators.

���Despite the enormous size of his classes, the students report a deep, personal connection to him,��� wrote the Department of Biology���s Awards Committee in its recommendation.�� ���He makes it very comfortable for them to ask questions, his passion rubs off on them, and he seems to have an endless supply of energy, time, and patience to devote to his students. Michael���s impact on UR undergraduates has been broad and deep.���

Inspiring curiosity in every student

Annie Ganem ���26 took high school biology over Zoom and was nervous about walking into Clark���s 8 a.m. biology class as a first-year student at 做厙勛圖. Ganem sat in the last row of the packed auditorium that day, bracing for the worst.

But, Ganem recalls, ���from the moment Professor Clark started his lecture, I was engaged. He made me excited to learn. His ability to explain complex, scientific concepts in a simple and digestible way is unmatched. You can feel Professor Clark���s love of biology through his lectures as well as office hours. It is also evident that he has a passion for teaching.���

Clark, who enjoys teaching large classes, has 300 students this semester in his Biology 110 courses. As is often the case, students��� experience with science varies from those who have taken several science courses to those who are taking their very first course.

���I try to make my lectures understandable to a very broad group and still challenge students who already know a lot of the material we���re covering,��� says Clark. ���I want them to leave my classes more excited about biology and science in general.���

Jervon Cole ���27 says many students have benefited from Clark���s enthusiasm for course content, engaging workshop problems, and plentiful office hours.

���Dr. Clark does an excellent job of explaining content in more than one way, often with visual aids, mnemonics, or physical representations like a rope with different colors of tape to represent protein foldings,��� says Cole, who took Clark���s BIO 110 course in 2023. ���Dr. Clark is the reason that I switched from a psychology major to a biology major, and I have not looked back since.���

From the lab to the lecture hall

For Clark, standing in front of hundreds of students in a lecture hall isn���t where he thought he would be when he secured his first postdoctoral research associate position in 1998 at the University of Chicago and his second in 2004 at 做厙勛圖.

Back then, his goal was to run his own lab at a university. Yet by the time he felt comfortably qualified to do so, he realized running a lab was no longer what he wanted to do. With some hesitancy about leaving behind research, he decided to forge a new path.

Then, in what turned out to be fortuitous timing, an instructor position became available in the biology department in 2011. Clark was encouraged to apply and did so.

���In hindsight, that was the best decision I ever made,��� says Clark. ���I love teaching far more than I ever could have imagined.���

What 做厙勛圖 students say about Michael Clark

���Dr. Clark is very accessible and willing to offer his invaluable support. He has office hours available every day from Monday to Friday and we as students find them very helpful not only to get our questions answered, but also to connect and interact with the professor. To his students, he always says, ���if my door is open, you are always welcome to knock and come in to chat, even if it���s not my office hours times.������
���Christina Wang ���26

���During my four years as an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester, I never met an instructor so dedicated, caring about his students, and passionate about biology. In fact, if I hadn���t met him, I would not have chosen to pursue biology at all. Due to his influence, I am now working in a surgery and immunology research lab at the Duke University School of Medicine.���
���Angela Park ���22

���Having Dr. Clark for one of the first classes I ever took at 做厙勛圖 set the scene for the academic rigor that I would expect for the next few years but also what it means to have an outstanding professor.���
���Alyssa Adela Cisneros ���26