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Campus Life
March 26, 2019 | 11:27 am

The student as author

Vlad Cazacu ’20 knew he wanted to make the most of his time at Rochester, but was unsure how. Now as the founder of Rochester Creators, he is helping himself and his fellow students gain confidence and credibility by writing and publishing books.

topics: Barbara J. Burger iZone, Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections, River Campus Libraries,
Science & Technology
March 25, 2019 | 09:52 am

Should higher education go digital?

From smartphones and social media to augmented spaces and virtual reality —three Rochester professors discuss the role digital technologies play in our learning.

topics: Department of History, Digital Scholarship Lab, Emily Sherwood, featured-post-side, Jayne Lammers, Joan Shelley Rubin, QuadCast, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences, Warner School of Education,
Society & Culture
March 19, 2019 | 04:27 pm

How to fail properly and often

Julia Maddox, director of the University’s Barbara J. Burger iZone in Rush Rhees Library, talks about creating a safe space for students to try things, and fail, while reducing the pressure to have to succeed all the time.

topics: Barbara J. Burger iZone, Julia Maddox, River Campus Libraries,
Society & Culture
February 18, 2019 | 03:49 pm

Turning the gears of an early modern search engine

A collaboration between librarians and engineering students, the book wheel in Rossell Hope Robbins Library is a recreation of a 16th-century design, solving the problem of needing access to multiple books at the same time.

topics: Anna Siebach-Larsen, Department of English, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, featured-post-side, Gregory Heyworth, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Koller-Collins Center for English Studies, Middle Ages, River Campus Libraries, Rossell Hope Robbins Library, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
January 28, 2019 | 11:41 am

‘Drifting open eyed into insanity’

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation has acquired a remarkable collection of 52 personal letters from author and early feminist reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who minces no words when it comes to motherhood, marriage, and depression.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, featured-post, River Campus Libraries, women's rights,
Society & Culture
December 21, 2018 | 02:03 pm

‘Lewis Henry Morgan at 200’ reintroduces a landmark scholar

A new digital project and exhibitions on and off campus mark the bicentennial year of one of the founders of social and cultural anthropology.

topics: Department of Anthropology, events, Humanities Project, River Campus Libraries, Robert Foster, School of Arts and Sciences,
In Photos
December 4, 2018 | 05:27 pm

Tribute to Frederick Douglass in word and song

On December 3, 1847, the first issue of the North Star newspaper was published in the city of Rochester. One hundred and seventy one years later, the city again celebrated abolitionist, activist, author, and orator Frederick Douglass in an evening of words and song at Rochester’s Hochstein Hall. The Prophet of Freedom event include a performance by Eastman School of Music student Jonathan Rhodes ’20 of a song written for Douglass in 1847 that had not been performed in 100 years.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, Eastman School of Music, events, Frederick Douglass, River Campus Libraries,
University News
November 29, 2018 | 02:39 pm

‘Innovation is a muscle’ — 8 questions about the iZone

Julia Maddox, director of the new Barbara J. Burger iZone at Rush Rhees Library, talks about what stops many would-be innovators, and how the iZone’s intentional design fosters creative thinking and actions.

topics: Barbara J. Burger iZone, River Campus Libraries,
The Arts
November 29, 2018 | 12:57 pm

Digital scholars rescue lost Japanese film

A 1929 Japanese silent film inspired by a classic O. Henry short story was long thought lost until Rochester researchers collaborated to bring it back to the big screen.

topics: Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Digital Scholarship Lab, Film and Media Studies Program, George Eastman Museum, Joanne Bernardi, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences,