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HAJIM SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING RIVER CAMPUS
& APPLIED SCIENCES LIBRARIES
$395,085 $312,505
• Financial aid played an important role in • The River Campus Library Excellence Fund
recruiting the best and the brightest students. supports the University of Rochester Libraries’
Students who want to use their engineering and priorities as defined by the Dean. These include
applied sciences degrees to solve some of student experiential learning, redesigned and
society’s most pressing challenges and make updated spaces, and digitization of resources to
the world ever better. give better access to students, faculty, and
• Hajim students gained valuable experience by researchers. In addition, we continue to enhance
participating in research, internships, and global our collection with acquisitions of rare and unique
experiences. Research provided students the materials, both physical and digital, for
chance to develop creative and analytic skills customized curricular experiences, curated
that enhance their problem-solving abilities; exhibits, citizen scholarship, and collaborations
internships allowed students to put into practice with other cultural institutions.
what they learned in the classroom in real-world • The River Campus Libraries (RCL) researched and
scenarios; global experiences broaden students’ developed a comprehensive library internship
perspectives. Donor support made it possible for program that provided practice/project-based
students to have these experiences regardless employment/experiential learning through paid
of their financial resources. internships in students’ areas of interest. Summer
• George Eastman Circle support made it possible internships include opportunities in IT, digital
for students to attend a number of national scholarship, finance, metadata, learning &
conferences for their professional societies, research initiatives, and administration.
including (but not limited to) the Society of • Internships offered coaching opportunities with
Women Engineers (SWE), the National Society of outcomes of improved curriculum vitae; provided
Black Engineers (NSBE), the Society of Hispanic opportunities for students to present their
Professional Engineers (SHPE), and the Society projects to RCL and others; networking
of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE). opportunities; and familiarized students with
working in a professional environment.
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