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The University of Rochester was founded in 1850, after dissenting faculty and students left Madison University and obtained a new charter from the Regents of the State of New York on the 31st of January, 1850. Classes began that November with approximately 60 students.
George Eastman was the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. He gave more than $50 million to the University of Rochester during his lifetime and left his entire estate to the institution after his death, bringing his total gifts to over $100 million before inflation. His patronage funded the Eastman School of Music, the medical and dental schools, and the River Campus.
The Eastman School of Music is a music conservatory located on its own campus in downtown Rochester, established in 1921. It houses the Sibley Music Library, the largest academic music library in North America and the largest privately owned collection of sheet music. The school also features the Eastman Theatre, a 2,326-seat concert hall that serves as the primary venue for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
Susan B. Anthony led the effort to admit women to the University of Rochester, which resulted in the first female students enrolling in 1900. Thirty-three women joined that initial class, and Ella S. Wilcoxen became the first woman to receive a degree, in 1901. Anthony's contribution is commemorated through multiple awards, buildings, and centers named in her honor, including Susan B. Anthony Hall, the largest undergraduate dormitory.
The Laboratory for Laser Energetics is a national laboratory on the university's South Campus, funded by the US Department of Energy and focused on laser-based nuclear fusion research. In 2023, the university began a $42 million expansion of the facility.
Eight current and former faculty filed a complaint with the EEOC in September 2017 alleging sexual misconduct by a tenure-track faculty member. In 2019, federal judge Lawrence Vilardo ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on 15 of 16 legal claims. The lawsuit was settled in 2020, with the university paying the plaintiffs $9.4 million.