A reminder on face masks: they must be worn properly, covering the nose and mouth, indoors on the University’s campuses and properties. Visit the face mask FAQ page for full information. Face masks with air valves are not permitted, nor are face shields alone without a proper face mask underneath.
Security Tip: Get LastPass, the University’s free password management service
You can, and should, have unique passwords. The average person has upwards of 100 passwords to remember, so how can you keep them straight? Free for all University, Medical Center, and affiliate staff, faculty, and students, LastPass helps manage, create, and secure your passwords. Available for mobile and desktop, you remember one LastPass password and let it do the rest: securely store login credentials in your vault, auto-fill logins, and create strong, secure passwords. Get a quick overview of LastPass, or read more details, then call the University Help Desk (585-275-2000) or ISD Help Desk (585-275-3200) to activate your free LastPass account.
Joseph Eberly honored as a ‘true visionary’ in optics
Share the warmth: A coat drive for patients in need
Friends of Strong, Advantage Federal Credit Union, and Strong Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department are collecting clean, gently used—or new—men’s winter coats for patients in need who are being discharged from the hospital throughout the coming winter months. For Medical Center staff and students, donation collection boxes are located in the hospital’s main lobby, and on the ground floor between the University ID and post offices located just inside the Whipple Circle entrance on Crittenden Blvd. The general public may use the donation bin located outside of Advantage’s Penfield branch at 2515 Browncroft Blvd. Call (585) 275-2420 with questions or if you would like arrange a collection drive in your location or department.
Protect yourself and your community: Get a flu shot
As fewer people are wearing masks in public and community spaces, influenza is more likely to spread. To help prevent the spread of influenza in the community, make a plan to get your flu shot. You can get a flu shot at many local pharmacies, including CVS, Walgreens, and Wegmans.
Dining Services updates, reminders
The final chance for students to change their spring meal plans is during the spring dining change period, November 29 to December 3. The $25 change fee is waived during this period. Change forms will be available on the Dining Services website beginning today, November 29. Completed forms should be emailed as an attachment using either a Word document or PDF format to mealplans@services.rochester.edu. Forms must be received by December 3; late forms will be not be processed.
Spring plans for dining services: Dining Services expects many on-campus options to resume during the spring semester. While some operations will remain limited, Danforth Dining Center will reopen for lunch and dinner every day, along with all three fraternity kitchens. Other updates include:
Connections will have expanded hours of operation: from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays; and closed on weekends.
Dining Services will maintain its current hours of operation in Starbucks, Hillside, The Brew@Simon, the Pit, and the Eastman School of Music.
Beginning on January 7, students will no longer be able to use their meal plan declining balance dollars to purchase food from off-campus restaurants on Grubhub.
Dining Services will continue to work on expanding other services on campus throughout the spring semester. Updates will be reported on the dining website.
‘Nourish to Flourish Snack Attack’
Take a study break and learn about creating a compassionate relationship with food and your body while making charcuterie boards. There will be fruits, nuts, crackers, hummus, honey ham, hot chocolate, tea, and the first screening for the Nourish to Flourish mini-documentary about mindful eating. This event takes place Saturday, December 4, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Douglass Community Kitchen and is open to all undergraduate students. Registration is required.
Tension sometimes winds us up so tight that it can be hard to find the release button without help. Make an appointment at (585) 276-9110 to find support for managing emotional stress through Well-U’s confidential UR Medicine EAP.
Apply for pilot program at Translational Immunology and Infectious Diseases Institute
The Translational Immunology and Infectious Diseases Institute is accepting requests for applications. The purpose of this program is to foster innovative new ideas and team-driven multidisciplinary translational research projects related to infectious disease and immunology. Abstracts will be reviewed and those applicants selected to submit full applications will be contacted shortly thereafter. Applicants must be full-time tenure or research track faculty at the University. Submit your abstracts to Stefanie Fingler by Tuesday, November 30, at 5 p.m. EST.
Lecture on the metaphysics of sex and French feminism
Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, “The Metaphysics of Sex: How French Feminism Deconstructs the Fraternal Order” explores how millennia-old structures of women’s oppression are upheld by a metaphysics of sex, a series of hierarchical binaries that privilege reason over passion, mind over body, and culture over nature, all the while assigning the feminine to the negative pole. Noëlle McAfee, a professor of philosophy and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University, presents this entry in the Margaret Parkhurts Morey Lecture Series in French today, November 29, at 5 p.m. in the Humanities Center, Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library. Grab-and-go refreshments provided.
Lecture: ‘Love, Death, and Rivers: Native Californians and Native Hawaiians Remember the Confluences of History’
The Humanities Center welcomes David Anthony Chang, a professor of history at the University of Minnesota, for the third public lecture in the Sawyer Seminar series on migration. Drawing on collaborative, community-engaged historical research, Chang considers how colonial processes and the movement of diverse peoples on the Pacific Coast have shaped racial and ethnic identities as well as interethnic relationships in the region. The free lecture takes place Thursday, December 2, from 5 to 6 p.m. EST in the Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. The event will also be streamed live. Learn more and register.
Explore graduate program offerings at the Warner School in December
Join Warner School of Education admissions at a virtual information session in December to learn more about graduate programs in counseling, educational leadership, education policy, health professions education, higher education, human development, online teaching, program evaluation, and teaching. The next application deadline is December 15. Contact Warner School’s admissions office with questions. Learn more and register to attend an upcoming admissions information session.
“There’s lots of asteroids out there. We’ve only found close to half of the ones that are really dangerous to us…You really don’t want to blow something up,” says Adam Frank, the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Frank appeared on CNN to discuss NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission. Find the interview on the University’s Twitter.
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