Two-factor authentication (2FA) protects your account, but only when approvals are intentional. If you receive a 2FA request you weren’t expecting, do not approve it. Attackers may send repeated prompts hoping you tap “approve” out of habit or frustration. Only approve requests you personally initiated. If unexpected prompts continue, change your password and contact University IT or the ISD Service Desk. If you didn’t start it, don’t approve it.

University flags on the Eastman Quadrangle and near the entrance of Strong Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department, and the flags atop the Eastman Theatre at the corner of Gibbs and Main Streets, will be lowered on Thursday, March 5, for Mike Jones, a steamfitter/plumber in University Facilities & Services, River Campus Operations, who died on January 27. Jones joined the University in 1988.

Worn daily by kids, teens, and adults, earbuds can expose ears to damaging sound levels without obvious warning signs. Medical Center experts offer a few simple changes that can go a long way in protecting hearing.

Motivation and follow-through can be the biggest barriers to reaching your goals. In Well-U’s goal-setting success program starting on Monday, March 2 at noon, discover your “why”—the key that flips the switch to lasting accomplishment. Save your spot.

Did you submit a fall 2025 tuition reimbursement application for classes taken at an outside college or university? Don’t forget to submit your supporting documentation (tuition bill, proof of payment, and final grades) to Workday within 90 days of the completion of the course.

The Office of Online Learning and University IT offer a series of workshops this spring to support your use of technology in teaching. The first sessions will be held on March 2 and 3 and cover the use of the Blackboard Ultra AI Design Assistant, a tool that can help save time during course development. Additional workshops about Panopto (video storage and playback), Harmonize (a sophisticated discussion board tool), and Blackboard Ultra courses will also be offered in the coming months. Explore the schedule and register to attend.

Love Data Month, hosted by the University Libraries, celebrates data with a month of workshops and events. Events wrap up this week with workshops on 3D–XR for Visualization and Doing Text Analysis with Python. Learn more and register. 

Palestinian-Lebanese-American playwright, screenwriter, and theater director Ismail Khalidi speaks about his career, work, and life today, February 23, in Morey Hall, Room 321, at 5 p.m.

Karma Frierson, an assistant professor of Black studies, discusses her new book, Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz, today, February 23, at 6 p.m. at Hipocampo Children’s Books, 638 South Avenue. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested.

Join Jason Marvin, director of partnerships and external relations at the American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, at a networking session on Tuesday, February 24, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the School of Medicine and Dentistry, Room 2-7534. Marvin will also give a talk at the Center for Musculoskeletal Research as part of the Neuman Visiting Scientist Speaker Series on Wednesday, February 25, at 12:30 p.m. in Lower Adolph Auditorium or via Zoom. Find details on both events here.

Join the Warner School of Education & Human Development and River Campus Libraries for a vibrant celebration and workshop on Black children’s literature, Wednesday, February 25, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. Learn about selecting age-appropriate, culturally relevant books, organizing books to encourage independent discovery, and ways to maximize literacy for all readers.

Rashid Johnson’s The Hikers, a seven-minute video that explores a narrative of connection, the exchange of platonic love, and independence, plays in the Memorial Art Gallery’s Media Arts Watch Gallery through July 19. Learn more about the poetic film.

Submissions to the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program’s annual Undergraduate Writing Colloquium are due today, February 23. Monetary prizes will be given in five categories.

All students are invited to learn more about eating disorders and available resources by visiting the University Counseling Center’s table outside the Welles-Brown Oasis in Rush Rhees Library on Thursday, February 26, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. They can also take an eating disorder screening and review the results with someone from UCC.