During Meliora Weekend 2023, comedian Hasan Minhaj opened his performance in the Louis Alexander Palestra with some University of Rochester crowd work. At one point, he marveled at Rochester’s motto, Meliora saying, “You actually believe it,” with disbelief and admiration in his voice.
It’s an understandable reaction for someone outside the University community.
Digital preservation activities work to advance the mission of the University of Rochester in accordance with the University's vision and values.
Alan Valentine, a former president of the University of Rochester (1935–1950), said, “A university library is—or should be—the geographic and spiritual heart of the cultural life of a university.” The University’s libraries have lived up to the sentiment behind this quote as sources of knowledge, catalysts of research, and facilitators of collaboration. But these things don’t just happen.
Doing research is about asking questions, and researchers at the University of Rochester ask a lot of questions. For example, can artificial intelligence help create sustainable energy sources? Scientists at Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics are part of a team that thinks machine learning models will help design high-performing implosions that move us closer to creating fusion energy sources.
Although it has become synonymous with the United States Supreme Court case Brown vs. the Board of Education, which deemed racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, the phrase “with all deliberate speed” characterizes the entire civil rights movement.
The Ask the Archivist column in the Summer 2023 Rochester Review answered a question from an alumnus wondering why the cover of the first issue of Review in 1923 used a seal with the date 1851 when the University was founded in 1850. You can read the article here.
First-time visitors to the Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester won’t be surprised to find stacks of books from its comprehensive holdings on history, literature, art, and culture from the Middle Ages.
The University of Rochester Research Repository (URRR) is the University of Rochester’s institutional and data repository, which uses Figshare.
