Strike Up the Band, in Review
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.
Trustee commits $2 million to River Campus Libraries
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.
Karp Library Fellows - Cohort III 2022-2023
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.
Zero-Cost Heroes IV
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.
When new federal grant policies call, the libraries answer
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.
Daniel Menzo
Originally from Southeast Michigan, Daniel moved to Rochester from Long Island in the fall of 2016 to join the University’s MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, an unparalleled program affiliated with the George Eastman Museum. Daniel specializes in photography’s diverse histories, as well as in handling and organizing a wide range of photographic objects. As a graduate student employee, he assisted with the lab’s diverse digitization projects.
Izul Zulkarnain
Iskandar (Izul) Zulkarnain was a Mellon/CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Visual Studies at the University of Rochester. He completed his dissertation on Indonesian digital nationalism in 2015, with the support of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies also at the University of Rochester. His interests cover critical digital humanities, global/postcolonial digital media studies, and transnational video game and animation studies.
Josh Romphf
Josh is currently the programmer for the Digital Scholarship Lab. Originally from London, Ontario, he holds an MA in Film and Media Preservation from George Eastman Museum and The University of Rochester. His interests include fabrication, computer vision, video encoding, and electronics.
Close-up on close-ups
Think about one of your favorite movies or even one of the last movies you saw. Do you have a sense of how often a close-up occurred or what characters or objects received them?
Just to make sure there’s no confusion about the terminology, a “close-up” is any camera shot in which a character’s face, an object, or a detail in a scene take up most or all of the frame. So, could you offer a rough estimate of the close-ups in any movie at all?
It’s OK if you have no idea.
