Friday

Admissions interviews are available for high school seniors whose parent, grandparent, or sibling attended Rochester. Please call the Admissions Office directly to schedule an appointment at (585) 275-3221.

Tee off on Oak Hill Country Club’s East Course–site of the 2008 Senior PGA Championship–and support undergraduate scholarships. For more information, contact Jack Kreckel in the Office of Trusts and Estates at (800) 635-4672, (585) 273-5930, or jack.kreckel@rochester.edu. Lunch is included.

The University Archives, sometimes called the UR’s attic, is filled with 159 years’ worth of treasures and marvels. This exhibit brings together an assortment of rarely seen objects: ephemera, photographs, clothing, mementos, curiosa, and much more that has been generated since the University’s founding. From the mundane to the rarified, from the funny to the poignant, there is something to enchant everyone.

A lavish exhibition of literary, cinematic, popular, visual, and historical materials illustrating the appeal of Robin Hood from the 18^th to the 21^st centuries.  This exhibit, in Rush Rhees Library and elsewhere on campus, will include previously unshown photographs from the George Eastman House, items from the Strong National Museum of Play,  and thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, Viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.

Thomas Hahn is a professor of English whose teaching centers on the sponsorship, production, and interpretation of texts and images from the earlier Middle Ages through the early modern period. Recent papers, publications, and seminars have concentrated on those scattered or huddled at the edges of emerging European identities, including women, Indians, Jews, heretics, Robin Hood and other outlaws, virtuous pagans, popular chivalric heroes, and other monstrous types.

Exhibitions:
An Impression of the Middle Ages: Production Stills from Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood
A major exhibition drawing upon an archive of nearly 1000 negatives at the George Eastman House, most never exhibited or examined before. The exhibition will also include original posters and lobby cards, and the boots which Fairbanks wore in the film. Support and contributions from the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department, and the University of Rochester Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

The Americanization of Robin Hood, 1883-1923
A focused exhibition, tracing the development of American images of Robin Hood which have permanently changed the outlaw’s status in international popular culture.  Incorporating the Fairbanks photographs from “An Impression of the Middle Ages,” it will provide a lavishly documented account of the impact and history of Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and present music, lyrics, advertisements, programs, and photographs associated with the operettas of Reginald De Koven, including Robin Hood (1891) and Maid Marian (1901).  Support and contributions from the George Eastman House, the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, the Sibley Music Library, and a private collection.

Robin Hood: Media Creature
An exhibition of Robin Hood-related materials, ranging from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, in all media – selected from thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), photographs (including a selection from previously un-exhibited “keybooks” for The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938] with Errol Flynn),  along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.  Support and contributions from the Strong National Museum of Play, the George Eastman House, the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Rush Rhees Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and a private collection.

Featuring the Trauma and Pediatric Units and the new James P. Wilmot Cancer Center.

Contact Mona Fine at (585) 275-5087 for more information or to register. Or, click here to download a brochure.

Images of Abraham Lincoln in American Art 
Two thousand nine marks the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Join Grant Holcomb, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery, for an illustrated lecture highlighting images and interpretations of Abraham Lincoln from mid-19^th century photographs to late 19^th and 20^th century painting, sculpture, prints and drawings.  Following the presentation, enjoy a served lunch in the Memorial Art Gallery's magnificent M&T Bank Ballroom.

After lunch, participants are welcome to take part in a self-guided tour of the Memorial Art Gallery’s collections.  Roundtrip shuttle service will be provided from the River Campus.

Education for Global and Multicultural Leadership with guest speaker Shaké Ketefian, EdD, RN, FAAN, professor and director, Office of International Affairs at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

Increasingly, the global economy is becoming knowledge-based, and dependent on new knowledge and its application. Closer to home, the population of the United States, and indeed that of many countries, has acquired a global profile, with the concomitant need to be responsive to the educational and health needs such diversity entails. Universities are called upon to prepare their students and scholars for global leadership in this uncharted environment. This presentation will address relevant issues inherent in this task, and suggest strategies for educating our students to meet the challenges presented.

In 1998, Memorial Art Gallery Director Grant Holcomb bid on a mysterious painting on the auction block at Sotheby’s. Almost nothing was known about it, or about its remarkably talented painter, but Holcomb’s risk paid off. In a review of auction sales that year, one writer hailed the work as "a masterpiece that is the equal of the best of William Harnett…John Peto…and John Haberle…the three great American titans of trompe l’oeil." With photographs, engravings, and antique bits of bric-a-brac—all overseen by a bespectacled and bearded figure—The Printseller is filled with puzzling bits that suggest a story. This exhibition tells how the painting’s secrets have been given up one by one through the painstaking detective work of guest curator Pete Brown.

Please join Dean Kathy P. Parker as she shares updated news on the School and confers special commemorative medallions on alumni celebrating 50^th and post-50^th reunions. Sigma Theta Tau awards will also be presented to an undergraduate and graduate student.

Keynote remarks by author Judith Warner, whose works include Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety. Warner also writes the New York Times blog "Domestic Disturbances" and has written for Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Elle magazine.

Confirmed speakers: Author/journalist Judith Warner, filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, and author Elrena Evans

Judith Warner is the author of several best-selling works, including Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety; Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story; You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country; and Restore Democracy in America (with Howard Dean). She writes the New York Times blog Domestic Disturbances and has written for Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Elle magazine.

Pamela Tanner Boll is an artist and director of the film Who Does She Think She Is?, which follows five women artists as they navigate the economic, psychological, and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world.

Elrena Evans is co-editor of the book Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life and its corresponding blog.

Sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership

Dean Robert Clark welcomes back alumni, former faculty members, students, and parents for the inaugural Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Symposium.

Keynote addresses are: 
• " The Future of Engineering" by Charles M. Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of MIT.
• "The Bridge Between Engineering and Arts and Sciences" by Henry Petroski, the Arthur S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University and author of more than a dozen books on engineering and design.

Attend the Eisenberg Undergraduate Research Symposium to hear students discuss chemical engineering research they have undertaken with the support of Professor Richard F. Eisenberg ’45, a former chemical engineering faculty member.

Throughout the weekend, let students be your guides as you revisit favorite haunts and see how the River Campus has changed. Tours depart from the steps of Wallis Hall at 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m.

Join your classmates for a group photo. All participants will receive a framed photograph of their class after Reunion.

Associate Professor of History Michael Jarvis discusses how cross-cultural influences shaped a distinctly new culture and, through characterizations of Bermuda as a “finite” space and Virginia as an “infinite” space, consider how these qualities shaped settlement pace and patterns into the 1620s.

Includes a reception for alumni and friends to mingle with students.

Public health is concerned with preventing disease, prolonging life and improving the health of communities locally, nationwide, and globally. Learn about the role of public health in identifying and solving some of society’s most challenging problems related to globalization, global warming, and the upcoming dramatic shift in United States demographics. In addition, hear an overview of the newly established undergraduate public health-related programs at the University of Rochester and the exciting career opportunities available to future graduates of these programs.

President Joel Seligman honors the Class of 1959. Class photos will be taken at this time. Please arrive by 2:30 p.m.

Presented by George Denton, University of Maine, as part of the Fairchild Colloquium.

The concept that Earth has experienced a great ice age emerged more than a century ago. However, 12,000 to 18,000 years ago, an unusual warming pattern affected the southern globe, including Antarctica, New Zealand and South America. Understanding this extraordinary warming event lies at the heart of solving the Ice Age puzzle.

Presented by the Fairchild Colloquium on Climate Change and Sustainability
The colloquium, organized by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, introduces the current status of our understanding of climate changes in the recent past, of the interaction between atmosphere and hydrosphere to form climatic conditions today and in the future, and to look at the consequences of climate change on the environment and society. It is named after Herman LeRoy Fairchild (1850-1943), pioneer in glaciology, first geology professor at the University of Rochester, and co-founder of the Geological Society of America (GSA).

George Denton is Libra Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Maine.  He is also an adjunct senior scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. His main research interest is the geological history of large ice sheets and smaller mountain glaciers. Another interest is abrupt ocean-atmosphere reorganizations in glacial cycles. As a consequence he has published on extensive field mapping of glacial deposits and features in Antarctica, South America, New Zealand and the Arctic. He is a co-author of The Last Great Ice Sheets. In 1990, Denton was presented with the Vega Medal in Stockholm. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1996 and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. A graduate of Tufts University, he earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in geology from Yale University and has been awarded honorary degrees by Stockholm University and the University of Edinburgh.

Professor April Luehmann will showcase Get Real! Science, the Warner School’s innovative teacher preparation program, designed to engage students preparing to be science teachers in authentic community-based problems such as why our local beach is often closed through an inquiry-based approach. Practicing science teachers think deeply about the nature of science and engage themselves in real scientific questions while preparing to teach their students these same lessons through the same engaging ways. Practicing teachers learn, by doing, how to create plans and projects to lead their students in research, experimentation, and discovery. This will be an experiential session, so bring your hip waders!

The Sound and Music Initiative is an exciting new collaboration between the University's College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering and the Eastman School of Music. Music, science, and Engineering play pivotal roles in the University of Rochester and in the broader Rochester community. The Music and Sound Initiative serves as a focal point for enhancing and expanding research programs that span these disciplines. Hear John Covach, professor of music and music theory and Chair of the College Department of Music; Elissa Newport, George Eastman Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics and Chair of Brain & Cognitive Sciences; and Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics and astronomy, and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering discuss the cross-disciplinary effects of this exciting new program.

Paul Burgett ’68E, ’76E (PhD) offers stories about the University from its early beginnings through today, sharing tales of the people and events that shaped the University of Rochester we know and love. Burgett, who is vice president, general secretary, and senior advisor to the president, draws on Arthur May’s A History of the University of Rochester 1850-1962 and other sources, including photographs of University people and places throughout our history, for an entertaining historical perspective.

Just as digital technology has changed research, teaching, and scholarship, so too has it changed libraries. Join Susan Gibbons, vice provost and the Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of River Campus Libraries, for a walking tour of the Rush Rhees Library to see how it has changed and stayed the same over its 80 years. See what library spaces designed for today’s undergraduate and graduate students look like. Or, take a peek at the Welles-Brown Room to make sure your favorite napping spot is still there.

Gibbons earned an MLS and M.A. in history from Indiana University, professional MBA from the University of Massachusetts, and an Ed.D at University of Rochester. She held library positions at Indiana University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst before moving to the University of Rochester, where she worked as the director of digital library initiatives before moving into administration. 

Most recently, Gibbons’ research has focused on methodologies for user studies, the alignment of academic libraries with the needs of Net Generation students, university press publishing, and the future of academic librarianship in the digital age. In 2007, she published The Academic Library and the Net Generation Student and Studying Students: the Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester, for which Gibbons was co-editor.  She was named one of Library Journal’s 2005 “Movers & Shakers” and in 2006 was a Visiting Program Officer for the Association for Research Libraries.

Current and former Workshop leaders, their families, and interested friends and colleagues are invited to attend an open house hosted by the Center for Workshop Education (formed in 2008) and Learning Assistance Services. Learn about how the Workshop program has grown and hear about the newly formed Center for Workshop Education. Recent participants in leader training will present their research. Light refreshments provided.

Join Mark S. Zaid ’89, owner of EsquireComics.com, a co-founder of the Network of Disclosure, and an advisor to the Overstreet Comic Book Price and Grading Guides, for an educational and humorous interactive presentation tracing the historical creation and development of comic books and their characters, and particularly how comics addressed social issues of the day (including war, sex, civil rights, women’s liberation, politics, censorship, violence, and terrorism).

Meet the new Director of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, Kit Miller. Learn about our new work within the University and the community of Rochester. View the Smithsonian photographs of Gandhi’s life and even purchase a copy of the historical photograph of Gandhi taken by famed photographer Margaret Bourke -White.

Collaborating with faculty on research and engaging in original research can be life changing experiences for undergraduates. The Journal of Undergraduate Research (JUR) invites you to hear from the JUR staff, students, and faculty involved in undergraduate research and to learn about undergraduate research activities and opportunities.

Mt. Hope Family Center invites all alumni, staff members, interns, volunteers, and Meliora Weekend guests to help celebrate our 30^th anniversary. Take a special tour, enjoy light refreshments, visit with old and new friends, share memories and get a sneak peek at what lies ahead. Find out why we are one of the nation’s foremost centers for research, intervention, and training on human development and how its affected by violence, maternal depression, abuse, and neglect. Free parking on site or use the convenient door-to-door shuttle service available from the back of Rush Rhees Library every 15 minutes between 3:15–5:15 p.m. Look for the Mt. Hope Family Center bus and staff to direct you or call the Center for directions at (585) 275-2991.

NROTC alumni are welcome to stop by for an informal visit with NROTC staff and to meet some of today’s midshipmen. Parents, please come see and hear about some of the latest accomplishments of your sons and daughters.

Join the Political Science Undergraduate Council and the Political Science/International Relations Department for a panel discussion on the career paths pursued by various political science alumni. This panel addresses journalism, education, politics, and more. Features panelists Joshua Farrelman, director, University of Rochester Office of Government & Community Relations; Justin Fox ’97, ’01 (MA), ’04 (PhD), assistant professor of political science, Yale University; Michael Guerra ’06, special assistant to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); and Adam Konowe ’90, vice president of public relations, Sullivan Higdon & Sink.

Alpha Phi sorority invites sisters, family and alumnae to a Red Dress Soiree! Meet and greet for a mocktail hour celebration to honor Phis past and present, their families, and our home at the University. Enjoy music and a special event to support the American Heart Association and our fight against heart disease. Casual red dress attire recommended.

Join classmates immediately following the medallion ceremony for a reception featuring complimentary cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres.

Artist Edie Tsong transforms the gallery into an interactive performance between gallery visitors and herself via live teleconference. Come participate in this live exchange of portraits between you and the artist.

The River Campus Libraries host Dan Rattiner ’61, creator of Dan’s Papers, the first free newspaper in America and the largest circulating newspaper in the Hamptons. He founded it in Montauk in 1960 as the first free newspaper in America. Rattiner is the author of 13 books, has received numerous awards for his writing, and continues his work at the paper to this day. His book In the Hamptons (2008) was an Amazon.com best-seller, and a second memoir In the Hamptons Too will be published in 2010. This annual lecture series is supported by an endowment from Andrew H. ’47 and Janet Dayton Neilly.

David Harman and Irina Georgieva, conductors
The University of Rochester Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Singers, comprised of River Campus undergraduate students, presents an afternoon “open house” concert featuring classical music in the style of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.

Enjoy this opportunity to socialize with classmates and celebrate the beginning of Reunion Weekend. Complimentary light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.

This special reception celebrates the success of engineering at the University of Rochester and the newly named  Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Join the members of Theta Chi, past and present, for an afternoon of food, drinks, and great conversation at the Theta Chi fraternity house.

Meet brothers of all generations and enjoy an afternoon of literary readings in the spirit of Samuel Eells.

Enjoy complimentary snacks, relax with friends, and peruse yearbooks and other items of nostalgia. A cash bar will be available for your enjoyment.

The 2009 University of Rochester Athletic Hall of Fame inductees, their families and friends, and current Hall of Fame members are invited to share this special evening. 

The 2009 Hall of Fame inductees are:
Randolph Bourdeau ’89, Football
Michael Coleman ’92, Basketball
Megan Hanushek ’92, Soccer
Jack F. Jung ’71, Football, Baseball
Karen Larson-Sullivan ’78, Basketball
Thomas Lowney ’84, Basketball
Mark Rose ’64,Tennis
Vincent J. Russo ’62, Football
Joseph Tomasso ’94, Golf

Celebrate Shabbat as students lead services (Reform and Conservative).  Then join us for a delicious Shabbat dinner. Dietary laws observed.

Stewart Weaver, professor of history and co-author of a recent book on Himalayan mountaineering, will talk about early British exploration of the Himalaya in the context of the history of the British Indian Empire.
Reception—6 p.m.
Lecture—6:15 p.m.

Join us in the celebration of the 25^th anniversary of Phi Kappa Tau at the University of Rochester. This is a chance to rekindle friendships, reminisce, and a great way to show support for the active brothers.

Gather in the tent on the Wilson Commons Quad for this casual dinner. Catch up with fellow alumni, parents, families, and students; your whole family is invited. Reserved seating by class year.

Students and alumni are invited to jump-start the weekend with the newest craze to hit the business world—speed networking! A structured, fast-paced networking activity followed by a reception insures maximum student and alumni interaction. Alumni and parents are encouraged to bring business cards. A cash bar will be available for your enjoyment.

Celebrate the eighth night of Sukkot with a short Hakafot Service followed by a four-course dinner in the Chabad Sukkah.
Services and Hakafot: 7 p.m.
Dinner:  8 p.m.

William Tiberio and Harold McAulliffe, conductors
The 100-plus member Wind Symphony will present a diverse program of traditional and contemporary works for wind ensemble. The Men’s Glee Club will present an energetic and entertaining performance in keeping with the long-standing men’s singing tradition on the River Campus.

Come share in the energy and excitement during an evening of entertainment provided by three of our nationally acclaimed a cappella groups—the Midnight Ramblers, After Hours, and the YellowJackets—as they sing new hits and old favorites.

For the first Eastman School of Music concert in the renovated Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, conductor Neil Varon leads the Eastman Philharmonia in one of the most dramatic works in the orchestral repertory, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5.  The program begins, appropriately, with a work written by Beethoven for the opening of a new theatre in Vienna, the Consecration of the House Overture (op. 124) and also includes Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, featuring a top Eastman student cello soloist (to be chosen in September). Arrive early to admire the beauriful renovated spaces! Admission is free.

The UR International Theatre Program (URITP) celebrates its 20^th anniversary season with Tony Kushner’s (Angels in America) witty, magical, and totally theatrical adaptation of Corneille’s The Illusion. Directed by URITP Artistic Director Nigel Maister, The Illusion is a transcendent and thoroughly modern meditation on the redemptive power of love and theatre. Tickets may be reserved online at www.rochester.edu/theatre.

A cash bar will be available for your enjoyment when you arrive for After Hours.

A cash bar will be available for your enjoyment when you arrive for After Hours.

A cash bar will be available for your enjoyment when you arrive for After Hours.

A cash bar will be available for your enjoyment when you arrive for After Hours.

A cash bar will be available for your enjoyment when you arrive for After Hours.

It’s fun, it’s irreverent … it’s Meliora Night Live! With tongue firmly planted in cheek join us as we poke some friendly fun at all that is Rochester. No “Rochester roast” would be complete without hysterical videos, live stand-up comedy, and great bands! You won’t want to miss this hilariously entertaining night!

Grab some friends and head over to your favorite college hangout! Shuttle transportation provided between River Campus , The Elmwood, and preferred young alumni reunion hotels (Holiday Inn Airport, Radisson Riverside, and Doubletree Hotel).  A cash bar will be available for your enjoyment when you arrive for After Hours.