Part 1 of a great piece by @kattenbarge.bsky.social on the ugly smears from the Eastman School of Music at @urochester.bsky.social after I went public.

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Paul Frommer, standing on a movie set.

For those checking out “Avatar: Fire and Ash” tonight!

Linguist & URochester alum Paul Frommer ’65 built Na’vi, the language spoken on Pandora and a popular fictional language like Klingon, Elvish & Dothraki

Ayoel ayngati kameie nìwotx! We see you all!

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Amazing to see @cvsuor.bsky.social faculty @flaumeye.bsky.social #RochesterOptics achievements highlighted among 1️⃣7️⃣5️⃣ contributions to the world#AdaptiveOptics #LASIK #WavefrontSensing #IOLs #URochesterResearch #EverBetter @urochester.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social

Collage of five different HIV/AIDS advocacy posters, including a famous Keith Haring poster that reads Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death, Act Up, Fight AIDS.

On #WorldAIDSDay we honor URochester’s fight against AIDS

@urochestersmd.bsky.social alum Michael Gottlieb first identified the disease in 1981; our libraries house one of the largest HIV/AIDS poster collections; and @rocvictoryalliance.bsky.social leads on HIV vaccines

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🌟 Exciting news for Warner! 🌟 Thanks to alumna Mary Ellen Burris ’68W (EdM), a new endowed professorship has been established for early-career faculty. Congrats to Yu Jung Han ’22W (PhD), the inaugural holder! 💙📚

Read more: uofr.us/Burris-Professorship

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Seen tonight on Jeopardy!

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Today, we're proud to launch a refreshed brand identity that keeps pace with the dynamic, collaborative, and innovative spirit that has always defined us.

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A tiny photonics chip delicately balanced on a fingertip.

Phlotonics, co-founded by @urochester.bsky.social alumni, won a $1.1M AIM Photonics contract to launch BioproSense™, a platform advancing real-time biosensing for regenerative medicine💡🧬 www.phlotonics.com/article.cfm?... #EverBetter #Innovation #Photonics #URochesterResearch

The "Varon Zone" At Eastman, we're "a family."

1/ The cult of personality around an abusive professor didn’t just survive a harassment finding—it intensified.

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Maybe You Should Transfer "Please don't take this the wrong way..."

1/ When I reported harassment, the school's Title IX Coordinator advised me to transfer.

In the first meeting.

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He Harassed. I Got Expelled. "Impregnated" at Eastman. Then kicked out.

1/ My advisor said I was "impregnated" by a former prof while I was TA'ing 60 students. Later he kept saying "I need to get him out of you."
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Ghosts of Eastman Past Spoiler alert: Everybody knew.

1/ Q: How many students have left the Eastman School of Music with an NDA?

A: Too many.

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I was expelled during an open harassment and retaliation investigation—by the administrators being investigated. No warning, process, or appeal.

It gets worse:

1/5

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He Got A Slap on the Wrist. I Got Expelled. Excerpts from my Eastman complaint to the New York State Division of Human Rights—submitted under penalty of perjury.

He screamed. He cursed. He harassed.

I reported him.

The result?

He stayed at the Eastman School of Music. I got expelled.

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btw, Waite Hoyt hit two triples today, the first time a #Yankees pitcher has done that since #Rochester native & U of R alum George Mogridge did it on August 7, 1917. [ed. note: No Yankee pitcher has done it since]. #OTD #SABR #EverBetter

student in a white lab coat and blue latex gloves holds a pipette near a flame.

A researcher is a problem solver 🧪

A team of 10 undergraduate students has pioneered a new 3D-bioprinting technology that efficiently replicates useful chemicals found in plants, including those endangered by our changing climate.

#EverBetter #URochesterResearch | uofr.us/4iZo2Xr

Professor Righter stands with his arms crossed in front of an office wall decorated with NASA memorabilia.

A silver, metallic, rectangular tray holds black rock and dust sample.

It's space dust, only cleaner 🌠

Prof. Kevin Righter came to Rochester as a former NASA curation lead, making sure rocks and dust collected by OSIRIS-REx were kept pristine

The asteroid samples are described as a “precious gift from the cosmos”

#EverBetter #URochesterResearch

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Meliora is the motto of my alma mater. @urochester.bsky.social‬ #EverBetter
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Two researchers in fill white bunny suits and googles working with an optical device.

Close up of a laser array with a bright light in the center.

Large laser facility with one person working in a white bunny suit, the person looks small in their surroundings.

The largest laser at any university—ever!

Our football-field-sized Omega Laser Facility at Laboratory for Laser Energetics is home to Nobel Prize winners and trains generations of the nation’s leading physics researchers

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