In the five years since University of Rochester Trustee Carol Karp ʼ74, Pʼ11 and Victor Glushko P’11 created the Carol and Sarah Karp Library Fellows Program, they have helped 19 students enhance their academic experience in River Campus Libraries and prepared them for their chosen careers.
Emmie Lin ’26 is a double major in computer science and digital media studies. She is from NYC, and works at studio X as a XR Specialist. Her hobbies include digital and physical art and they are a cat person.
Liam O’Leary is the XR developer for Studio X. He is passionate about development in the field of XR and making immersive experiences that are engaging and fun. Liam graduated from U of R with a Digital Media Studies degree in 2023. Liam loves listening to music, drawing, and making his own VR games in his spare time.
The Ask the Archivist column in the Spring 2024 Rochester Review explored the history of student honor codes, and James Diez's responsibility in spearheading the unsuccessful 1964 student honor code. You can read the article here.
Honor codes have been proposed -- but rarely accepted -- by University of Rochester students for over 100 years. Here are a few examples:
Jannick Rolland, the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering and director of the Center for Freeform Optics, has been inducted to Augmented World Expo’s (AWE) inaugural class of the XR Hall of Fame.
I tried on a virtual reality (VR) headset for the first time about a month ago. Though the fit was awkward at first, and it gave me a headache after about thirty minutes, I came out of the experience shocked at how immersive it was. Even despite how awe-struck I was at the end of my session, I still felt like the technology was only just in its infancy. As Mel Slater and Maria Sanchez-Vives put it, “VR is revolutionary, even though it has taken 50 years to get from the initial idea in the lab to becoming a mass consumer product.
The first appearance of modern technologies in the 1970s, such as TVs and game consoles, were revolutionary to entertainment and how people spent their leisure time. iPhones were also developed, and with them–apps that can be utilized for games, reading, or watching movies on the go. The next advancement for developers was to create an immersive experience for users to feel as if they were physically somewhere else, while in the comfort of their homes.
