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The U.S Navy's Blue Angels rehears for the upcoming Rochester International Airshow in the skies over River Campus.

Dean of Arts & Sciences Gloria Culver has announced the creation of a Humanities Center, which will support multidisciplinary engagement around literature, history, the arts, and philosophies of cultures past and present. Culver and interim director of the new center Joan Shelley Rubin have chosen “Humanities at the Crossroads: Charting Our Future” as the center’s theme for its first year. Faculty and students will organize research projects, seminars and symposia around the theme.

A dogwood tree blooms in the courtyard of Rush Rhees Library.

Spanning the years 1730 to 1917, the William Henry Seward Collection is the largest and most-consulted special collection in Rush Rhees Library.

Springing to Life: Movable Books and Mechanical Devices, the University’s exhibit of more than 50 movable and pop-up books, closes Aug. 17.