By: Tiamat Fox ('20), Research Assistant, Digital Scholarship

By: Maxwell Sheldon ('21, e5), Technical Assistant, Digital Scholarship Lab

Why Comic Books?

Multimodal composition is core to the first-year writing curriculum at the University of Rochester. Alongside term papers, students create short movies, interactive websites, comic strips, and more. Comic Life (comiclife.com) is a software program designed to create everything from single-panel cartoons to comic strips to full-length graphic novels.

In the past year, visitors to the Carlson Science and Engineering Library at the University of Rochester may have heard a light humming sound. It could have been the lights, but it also could have been Mary Ann Mavrinac Studio X.

The Ask the Archivist column in the Fall 2022 Rochester Review answered a question from an alumnus who sought a pair of matching photographs of the inscriptions on the facade of Rush Rhees Library. You can read the article here.

These drafts show Professor John Rothwell Slater's thought processes and the evolution to the final inscriptions.

There are few occasions for a child that mass-produce joy like a birthday. The decorations, the cake, the presents—what’s not to love? And yet, these special days become fuzzy memories more often than not. However, Gitanjali Rao’s fourth birthday was maybe the most important of her young life.

The word “virtuoso” is often reserved for extraordinarily talented musicians. Still, it’s improbable that University of Rochester students, faculty members, or staff members at the Eastman School of Music would object to it being used to describe David Peter Coppen, special collections librarian and archivist for Sibley Music Library.

Since Taylor Swift’s new single “Anti-Hero” is currently dominating the charts, it seems appropriate to introduce myself accordingly.

It’s me. Hi. I’m the writer. It’s me (Matt).
This intro goes out to all the Swifties.
I often try to find a way to make the stories lighter.
It’s a shameless struggle, always chasing after more subscribers.

What is justice in health care? Is it ensuring everyone receives an equal share of available resources or only those they deserve, earn, or purchase? Or is it about guaranteeing a minimum amount or quality of care? Dayna Bowen Matthew, the dean and Harold H.