In Photos

Students affiliated with Active Minds, a national organization dedicated to mental health awareness, planted 1,100 pinwheels-- representing the number of college students lost to suicide each year-- in Wilson Quad. "Send Silence Packing", as the traveling exhibition is called, is a program designed to raise awareness about the incidence and impact of suicide, connect students to needed mental health resources, and inspire action for suicide prevention.

Eastman School of Music alumnus Jeff Beal '85 leads a small group coaching session with jazz students Eugene Bisdikian, Chase Ellison, and Billy Petito in Howard Hansen Hall. Beal, the Emmy-winning composer of the House of Cards score, is visiting Eastman to host master classes and an evening of film music.

Performers from more than a dozen student groups took the stage in Strong Auditorium for the Association for the Development of Interest in the Indian Subcontinent's 30th annual Mela performance in Strong Auditorium. (Chi Huang / University of Rochester)

Colleen McCarthy, director of the University's annual United Way workplace campaign, and Jon Roberson, senior vice president of the United Way of Rochester, fire up the crowd at the annual kick-off breakfast. This year, the University is seeking to raise $1.4 million to support communities agencies.

The Chinese Students' Association rang in the Year of the Sheep at their annual China Nite performance and celebration. (Photo by Chi Huang '18)

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, meets with students at the Douglass Leadership House before delivering the annual University of Rochester Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Address.

The Brass Choir and Gospel Choir join forces for an impromptu holiday concert in Goergen Hall.

Senior chemical engineering student Erik Laurin monitors an experiment on his team's senior design project-- a tubular reactor that will be used for experiments in the junior chemical engineering lab in Gavett Hall.

Sophomores Claire Kaiser, biomedical engineering, Ibrahim Akbar, electrical and computer engineering, and Marina May, biomedical engineering, are buried in leaves instead of work on Eastman Quad.

The clock tower in Dandelion Square marks sunset on River Campus.

Noah Woolfolk '16 prepares to fire his trebuchet at the annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pumpkin Launch on Wilson Quad.

Actress Laverne Cox, who plays the role of Sophia Burset, an incarcerated African-American transgender woman in Orange Is the New Black, speaks in the Palestra during Meliora Weekend.