Rochester, University of

Rochester, University of

      private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Rochester, New York, U.S. The university includes the College of Arts and Science, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Eastman School of Music, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, and Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development. The Medical Center includes schools of medicine and dentistry and of nursing. The university's Memorial Art Gallery offers instruction in studio art and art history. The university offers a broad range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. Research facilities include the Institute of Optics and the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies. Total enrollment is approximately 8,400.

      The University of Rochester was founded in 1850 by a convention of Baptists. In 1900 the university became coeducational. Camera manufacturer George Eastman (Eastman, George) made several generous donations to the university and was instrumental in the founding of the Eastman School of Music in 1921; it ranks among the major music schools in the United States. The School of Medicine and Dentistry was established in 1920 and began instruction in 1926. Nobel Prize-winning medical researchers Vincent du Vigneaud (du Vigneaud, Vincent) and D. Carleton Gajdusek (Gajdusek, D. Carleton) were graduates of the university.

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