Jennifer Roach

The Office of the Dean of Students is helping to coordinate the efforts of various student groups interested in fundraising and relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Online registration for spring 2013 begins Monday, Nov. 5, for seniors and continues through Jan. 30

Katrina Smith Korfmacher, associate professor of environmental medicine and director of community outreach and engagement core for the Environmental Health Sciences Center, will present “Health Impact Assessment: Connecting Research with Policy to Shape Determinants of Health” at the next Public Health Grand Rounds on Friday, Sept. 21. The talk, which starts at noon in the Helen Wood Hall Auditorium, will provide an introduction to health impact assessment, an overview of efforts in the Rochester area (including Rochester’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program), and reflections on the potential of the health impact assessment to broadly inform policy in our region.

Discount tickets are available to the University community for “John Lithgow: Stories By Heart” at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Auditorium Theatre, 885 East Main St. Show your University ID at the theater box office to purchase a ticket for $22.50.

The southbound lanes of Mt. Hope Avenue will be closed for paving from Sept. 20–28. Traffic patterns will also be changed to pave Raleigh Street, Rossitor Road,Crittenden Boulevard, and the Elmwood and Mt. Hope Avenue intersection.

The Good Food Collective is currently enrolling for its winter CSA program that begins in December. The Good Food Collective Winter Membership provides four distributions for each member, once a month, December through March.

Faculty, postdocs, and graduate students are invited to attend a Postdoc Research Day poster session from 9 to 11 a.m. today in Flaum Atrium, Medical Center.

Retired local educator and writer William Guiffre ’56, ’63W (Mas), ’78W (EdD) is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of his children’s picture books to Golisano Children’s Hospital.

Learn about the Master of Science in Technical Entrepreneurship and Management (TEAM) degree program at the upcoming information session, Thursday, Sept. 20, at 4 p.m. in the Center for Entrepreneurship, 1-211 Carol Simon Hall.

The inaugural First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival starts today at various Rochester locations, including the Eastman School. Want to get involved? Participants are wanted for the “UR Dances” flash mob.

The River Campus Libraries have released a new homepage that offers a new look, a new discovery resource for Articles & Books, and a new face to the Voyager Catalog.

Check out a performance by comedian Craig Ferguson on Friday, Oct. 12, enjoy the Celebration of Diversity luncheon on Saturday, Oct. 13, sign up for the Presidential Symposium on “The Humanities, Artistic Expression, and the Digital Age: Innovation and Opportunities” on Oct. 13, or attend one of the many other programs and activities scheduled throughout Meliora Weekend, Oct. 11–14.