Laura Cardella, an associate professor of psychiatry and of pediatrics, shares tips to help families manage holiday stress together.

If you enrolled in VSP for your routine vision coverage (“Benefit Extras” would be listed under pre-tax deductions on your paystub), don’t forget to take advantage of it during the calendar year. You don’t need a card to utilize your benefits. At your eye care appointment, provide your VSP ID number, which is 3 zeroes followed by your employee ID number.

River Campus Libraries will operate under modified hours during the Thanksgiving break, November 26–30. Before visiting, please check the updated schedules for each library location. Gleason Library will remain open throughout the break. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to plan and make use of available resources.

Experience the Memorial Art Gallery’s Frontiers of Impressionism: Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum on an American Sign Language (ASL) tour, with voice interpretation, led by Deaf tour guide Jackie Schertz on Saturday, December 13, at 1 p.m. An ASL-only tour is offered on Saturday, December 6, at 1 p.m.

In his recent Leadership Conversation, David Linehan, CEO of the Medical Center, dean of the School of Medicine & Dentistry, and senior vice president for health sciences, talked about resilience, research, and the future of healthcare at URochester.

The International Education Week (IEW) committee welcomes feedback from the URochester community on this year’s programming to help improve future IEW events. Take the brief survey here.

Students can take a break from studying at Destress Fest on Wednesday, December 3.

CNN, November 24

Adam Frank, the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, joins CNN to talk about never-before-seen images, released by NASA, of an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS.