Features
Carillon
Hearing bells? UR not crazy — it’s the carillon!
Each year, 12 students take part in a class where they learn how to play the Hopeman Memorial carillon located at the very top of Rush Rhees Library.
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Brooks Crossing Apartments Barbershop: CutzbyOzzy
Walking into the ‘barbershop,’ you’ll be greeted by Garcia with an apron on and clippers in hand, a barber chair, a full professional clipping set, and customers chatting with Ozzy’s latest DJ set in the background.
Halloween
Is Rush Rhees haunted? Maybe, Scare Fair organizer says
Friday was Rush Rhees' 25th annual Scare Fair. Read about the fair's origins and the spooky myths surrounding it.
Frederick Douglass Institute
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie headlines Mel Weekend amid transphobia controversy
Despite student pushback over her past comments about trans women, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie headlined Meliora Weekend on Oct. 7.
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Meet UR’s furriest therapist
Sasha — UR’s first therapy dog — helps comfort a steady stream of students during her office hours in the Interfaith Chapel, and her role around campus and the community is growing.
From the Archives
From the Archives: inside CT’s “Classified” section
Throughout the 70s, you can see hints of the larger impact the “Classified” section would have had in the University community.
Profiles
The importance of mindfulness for you – with Mindful U
Since 2010, thousands have been trained in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course, which is now taught in countries around the world.
Profiles
Muck Duck Studio: where art meets resilience and recovery
Muck Duck Studio, which opened to the public in Jan. 2022 and now hosts five artists, is meant to feel like something akin to home for all who visit.
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Profiles: Brenda Song, inside Lower Strong
"As a kid, I didn’t care what anyone else thought. I knew what I wanted. It was in my 20s, after I finished ‘Suite Life,’ when I was at the crossroads."
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Student innovators set to showcase 3D bioprinter project at iGEM competition in Paris
Engineered to 3D-print gels laden with a bacteria and yeast co-culture system, this revolutionary technology addresses conservation issues concerning the intense demand of endangered botanical compounds for pharmaceutical use.
