Christopher Hoolihan, librarian emeritus of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester Medical Center, spent 42 years working with collections on the history of medicine. He probably had some bad days during that time, but he doesn’t remember them.

“What I remember is the great happiness my work brought me,” Hoolihan says.

On September 30, the first floor of the Carlson Science and Engineering Library at the University of Rochester was livelier than usual. It was Meliora Weekend, but it was also the grand opening of the Mary Ann Mavrinac Studio X. In his remarks to dedicate the space formally, Kevin Garewal, vice provost and Andrew H.

By: Vincent Tanzil, RBSCP Graduate Student (PhD program in Philosophy)

Netflix’s Stranger Things is undoubtedly responsible for introducing the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) to a substantial number of viewers. And it’s entirely possible that this story is now doing the same for several readers.

It’s official—the soft launch period for Studio X, the University of Rochester’s hub for extended reality (XR), is over, and a new era is set to begin. During Meliora Weekend, on September 30, a dedication ceremony will mark the grand opening of Mary Ann Mavrinac Studio X.

There are several reasons to think Seyvion Scott ʼ19 has librarianship encoded in her DNA. She’s been a voracious reader since elementary school. She says things like, “I’ve always had a love of the library.” There’s also the fact that she is a librarian.

So, Scott’s career path may have been the result of an inborn nature, but there’s just as much evidence that it’s the product of nurturing forces—like the University of Rochester.

COVID-19’s grip on society has relaxed to the point that most people have returned to their pre-pandemic lives. Of course, the virus isn’t gone, but it’s no longer the omnipresent bogeyman it once was, which is an incredible testament to our collective ability to move on. It wasn’t that long ago when it felt like the movie 28 Days Later might have been a prescient warning (the plot centers on a sudden, incurable virus).