This year’s Neilly Author Series season will feature Black authors and a variety of perspectives on racism, freedom, and the Black experience. Learn more about the series, and the first lecture with Julius Fleming Jr., below in the For the Community section.
Also in today’s issue:
Faculty can attend workshops on supporting student well-being
Residency events with musician, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo
Join the Language Center for “Dysfunctional Bingo” on Saturday, September 30, at 5:30 p.m. in the Language Center, Douglass Commons, Room 305. Participants can call a number in the language they are learning or speak at home. The remaining participants must guess or learn the numbers in different languages to fill out their bingo cards. Prizes will be awarded to the first three winners. Food and beverages will be provided.
Business and banking bootcamp
Have you ever thought about what a career in business, banking, or finance might look like? Attend an exploratory bootcamp on Sunday, October 1, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Gowen Room for an opportunity to interact with and hear from alumni across many business and banking roles. Learn useful tips related to working in business and banking, and applicable skills that can be applied to many relevant fields. No prior prep or knowledge is required, just an appetite for learning more about business and banking—and an actual appetite, as food will be provided. Register here.
Workshop on financial aid for graduate students
All enrolled AS&E graduate students seeking to learn how the Financial Aid Office operates and how it works to best support its graduate students can attend a workshop on Wednesday, October 4, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The hybrid session will be led by financial aid counselors will lead the hybrid session and help you learn best practices for searching for alternate funding sources such as scholarships and grants, provide contact information for your financial aid counselor, and share general aid option information. The event will be held in the admissions conference room in Wallis Hall and via Zoom. Registration is required.
Join the Learning Center today, September 29, from 2 to 3 p.m. in Genesee Hall, Room 325, or via Zoom for a workshop on how to motivate students, promote effective study strategies, and humanize oneself as a professor. As a part of the Well-Being for Life and Learning Training Program, the workshop focuses on ways that professors can support their students in developing and implementing effective study strategies and covers a variety of tactics, from encouraging active learning techniques and regular review sessions to offering guidance on time management and study environments. Register in MyPath by looking up “Effective Study Strategies: Guidelines to Empower Students’ Learning Success.” Open to all faculty and course instructors.
Sessions on supporting student well-being
Do you work directly with students and want to learn how to support their mental health and well-being? A variety of workshops are being held over the next few weeks as part of the Well-Being for Life and Learning Training Program.
Contemplative Classroom on Monday, October 2, from 11 a.m. to noon in Genesee Hall, Room 325
Compassion Fatigue: Supporting Those Who Support Others on Tuesday, October 3, from noon to 1 p.m. in Genesee Hall, Room 325
Keys for CARE: Connecting Students, Staff, and Faculty To a Supportive Community on Friday, October 6, from noon to 1 p.m. in Genesee Hall, Room 325
Educator Self-Care and Self-Compassion on Friday, October 13, from noon to 1 p.m. in Genesee Hall, Room 309
Use the auto insurance comparison tool to get side-by-side auto insurance quotes at no cost from Liberty Mutual, Farmers GroupSelect, and Travelers online through YOUR Benefits Extras.
Residency events with musician and musicologist Patricia Caicedo
Musician, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo, from Barcelona, will be at Rochester for a five-day residency through Monday, October 2, with several multidisciplinary events free and open to the full University community:
Medical Center DEI and Health Care Equity Symposium: “We Are What We Listen To, The Impact of Music on Individual And Social Health”—today, September 29, at noon in the Class of ’62 Auditorium, School of Medicine and Dentistry
Eastman Performing Arts Medicine guest lecture: Saturday, September 30, at noon in the Ciminelli Formal Lounge, located within the Eastman School of Music Student Living Center, 100 Gibbs Street.
Lecture on the Soviet Union and the history of modern whaling
Ryan Tucker Jones, the Ann Swindells Professor of Global Environmental History at the University of Oregon, presents “Russia, the Destruction of the World’s Whales, and the Nature of the Twentieth Century” on Tuesday, October 3. The lecture runs from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library.
Public Safety leads community donation drive for Willow Domestic Violence Center
The Department of Public Safety is partnering with the Rochester community for a donation drive in support of the Willow Domestic Violence Center. University community members can donate new or gently used items in drop-off boxes at points across the University through October 31. Requested donations are listed on Willow’s wish list. Send questions to Josh McCartan via email or by calling (585) 275-7351. Find more information and drop-off locations here.
Neilly Author Series: Julius Fleming Jr.
At a time when the Black community was consistently told to be patient in their pursuit of civil rights, Black theater demonstrated a radical unwillingness to “go slow.” On Thursday, October 12, Julius Fleming Jr., an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, will bring his theatrical lens on the civil rights movement to Rochester for a talk on his book, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. You can learn more about Fleming and Black Patience on the River Campus Libraries website. Register here to attend the talk.
Presented by the River Campus Libraries and the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies, the 2023–24 Neilly Series season will celebrate the inaugural year of the Department of Black Studies with talks featuring Black authors and a variety of perspectives on racism, freedom, and the Black experience.
25th annual Health Care Compliance Conference
The 25th annual Health Care Compliance Conference, presented by the Medical Center’s Office of Integrity and Compliance, will address emerging compliance program developments and risks affecting health care providers throughout the region and nationally. Keynote speakers Giovanni Gallo and Nick Gallo, co-CEOs of Ethico, will discuss the culture of compliance in today’s highly regulated world. The hybrid conference takes place on Thursday, October 26. Find more information and register here.
Group fitness classes at the Goergen Athletic Center
The Department of Athletics and Recreation sponsors group fitness classes through the Intramural Sports Program every semester. The in-person classes are free for all full-time matriculated students or R Club members and take place in the Leibner-Cooper Room, Goergen Athletic Center. Current classes include bachata on Mondays from 4 to 5 p.m.; Zumba on Tuesdays from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. and Wednesdays from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.; and Iyengar yoga on Wednesdays from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Find a full schedule and register here.
@Rochester is produced daily by University Marketing and Communications. You are receiving this message as a member of the University of Rochester community or as a subscriber. Please do not forward this newsletter to other distribution lists.
