It’s pumpkin spice season, with fall colors hitting the leaves and the heightened anticipation of crisp temperatures on the horizon. Here’s a look back at how we spent September at the University of Rochester. Photos by J. Adam Fenster.
REGAL EAGLES—ER, OWLS: Limestone owls adorning the Rush Rhees Library tower are seen from an aerial drone.
INSPIRATION FROM ABOVE: The Muses statues next to Rush Rhees Library are photographed with an aerial drone.
BLINK AND YOU’LL MISS IT: First-year graduate student Alina Neveroska uses blue light and a special dye to check for corneal abnormalities in the eyes of postdoc and test subject Krish Prahalad after an experiment session in the lab of Michele Rucci, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences.
ACOUSTIC SET: Sarah Raeman, an ultrasound research technician, adjusts an apparatus for acoustic patterning in the laboratory of Diane Dalecki, the Kevin J. Parker Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering and director of the Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound. Scientists in Dalecki’s lab are leveraging ultrasound waves to organize endothelial cells—the building blocks of blood vessels—into patterns that can promote the growth of new vessel networks within days.
HOLDING COURT: Nobel laureate Donna Strickland ’89 talks with students at the inaugural colloquium In honor of optics leader James C. Wyant ’67 (MS), ’69 (PhD), ’21 (Honorary).
IN HONOR: Area NROTC units hold their annual vigil on the Eastman Quadrangle honoring members of the University community who were killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
ALL IN STRIDE: Members of the men’s track team perform a drill in Fauver Stadium.
SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDERS: Students on River Campus enjoy a sunny afternoon.
WAY TO BEE: Students in the Laboratory in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology course, taught by Robert Minckley, a professor of instruction in the Department of Biology, perform a census of insects and plant species at pollinator gardens across the University.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF BOARD MEETING: Jeff Engebrecht of Scoreboards Etc. replaces a malfunctioning panel on the Peter S. DiPasquale ’52 Scoreboard in Fauver Stadium.
ON THE BALL(OT): On National Voter Registration Day, Andrew Gold from the Center for Community Engagement and Magdalena Beer ’26 offer students who are eligible to vote the resources necessary to do so—including voter registration and voter education information.
HISTORY EMBODIED: Christine Slobogin, an assistant professor of health humanities and bioethics, leads her History of the Body course at the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
EVER BETTER LETTERS: Jason Nealon (right) and David Miller (middle) of MSM Inc. and John Annechino (left) of McCarthy Events set up the traditional Meliora letters on the Eastman Quadrangle in front of Rush Rhees Library in advance of Meliora Weekend.
