Raymond F. LeChase Hall, the home of the Warner School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester, has several distinctive features designed to support the preparation and development of educators and educational research.

Nothing ignites fervent and impassioned support like a tournament driven by popular opinion. No matter the category, put two things head to head, and you will discover people have big feelings about which is better. It could be anything—television shows; cereals; ways to prepare potatoes; even library spaces at the University of Rochester.

For a solid three years, COVID-19 draped itself across humanity like a weighted blanket. When it wasn’t swaddling people in illness, it was feeding on serotonin and inducing anxiety, making everyone loath to go anywhere—assuming they weren’t already under quarantine.

Early last year, Kevin Garewal, the vice provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the University of Rochester Libraries, looked at the student employee experience across the River Campus Libraries (RCL) and thought, “We can do better.” He wanted to give students an opportunity that would add value to their work and education.

The Ask the Archivist column in the Spring 2023 Rochester Review answered a question from an alumnus hoping to learn more about why the University Marching Band ended its long and successful career. You can read the article here.

The Marching Band got off on the right foot several times, beginning with a call for the formation of a band in 1908.

For more than a decade now, University of Rochester Trustee Evans Lam ʼ83, ʼ84S (MBA), the managing director of wealth management and senior portfolio manager at UBS Financial Services, has been an enthusiastic leader and committed volunteer at Rochester. His vision and support have manifested scholarships; a professorship; broad-spectrum funding that has initiated projects, bolstered services, and ensured the availability of resources; and now, a transformational gift.

It has been four years since University of Rochester Trustee Carol Karp ʼ74, Pʼ11 and Victor Glushko P’11 made a major gift commitment, creating the Carol ’74, Pʼ11 and Sarah ’11 Karp Library Fellows Program.

The Open Education Resources (OER) Working Group of the River Campus Libraries (RCL) is working toward its third year of an Open Education grant program and has identified more low-cost/increased-access champions across campus. This year, we close out Open Education Week/Month 2023 by proudly announcing 7 new Zero-Cost Heroes.

In August of last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a memo on “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.” The crux of the message was that openly sharing research data is the best way to maximize the potential of new knowledge and benefit the most people possible. And as the memo points out, COVID-19 offers a convincing case study on this being a practice that should be embraced with open arms.