Staff Picks
Seven things especially worth noticing this week.
Meet the Artist: Hugo McCloud
Noon at MAG. The artist behind MAG’s new exhibition talks about paintings made with materials including single-use plastic, foil, and tar paper. FREE · registration required.
A ridiculous home-sports pileup
Field hockey vs. Tufts at 10; volleyball vs. Chicago at 11 and Carnegie Mellon at 1; men’s soccer vs. York at 12:30; women’s soccer vs. Misericordia at 3.
Eastman Virtuosi I
7:30 PM, Kilbourn Hall. Eastman faculty performing with outstanding students. TICKETED · livestream available.
Synthposium: Moog, Chowning, and the history of synthesis
1–3 PM, Computer Studies Building 616. Michelle Moog-Koussa and electronic-music pioneer John Chowning. FREE.
Language City
5 PM, Humanities Center. New York’s astonishing linguistic diversity, endangered mother tongues, migration, and the project that mapped 700+ languages in NYC.
The U.S.–Canada Trade War
6–7 PM, Morey 321, with a reception afterward. The Economics Department’s featured event for September 29.
TEDxURochester: reHuman
2:30–6:30 PM, Wilson Commons May Room. Student-organized talks on the human side of design, innovation, and creativity. FREE.
Thursday, September 24
Coffee with Homer
9:00 AM · Wilson Commons 409. An informal conversation about Homer’s Iliad.
Data Bloom: Data Visualization with RStudio
3:00–4:30 PM · Virtual. River Campus Libraries workshop on building visualizations in RStudio. Register
Fall Writer’s Lounge
5:00–7:00 PM · Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Center Lounge. Casual writing, conversation, feedback, and refreshments.
Composers’ Concert: Eastman Student Composers
7:30–8:45 PM · Hatch Recital Hall. New music written entirely by Eastman student composers. Free
BIODANCE’s 20th Anniversary
8:00 PM · School of the Arts, Allen Main Stage. Anniversary repertory, new work, returning performers, and multimedia collaboration. $15
Friday, September 25
Global Citizenship from the Rust Belt: Education, Labor, and South Asia
Noon–7:00 PM · Humanities Center Conference Room D. Interdisciplinary conference connecting Rochester, labor, education, and South Asia. Free
Reimagining Peer Review Mini-Symposium
1:00–4:00 PM · SMD Lower Adolph Auditorium. How scholarly peer review might be redesigned. Register
GIDS-AI Fall Research Symposium
2:00–3:00 PM · Wegmans 1400 + livestream. Benjamín Castañeda on AI-enabled point-of-care ultrasound and Sean Crowell on machine learning for greenhouse-gas remote sensing.
ISO Community Resource Fair
2:00–4:00 PM · Feldman Ballroom, Douglass Commons. Community organizations, resources, refreshments, and raffle. Free
Krumping Workshop with VIL
4:00–5:00 PM · Todd Theater, Sloan Studio. Workshop with Elton Ward (VIL). Free
SAB Premiere Event: Primetime
6:20–10:00 PM. Bus from Rush Rhees to Regal Eastview for the movie’s release-day screening. CCC sign-in / registration
Kevin Jin, clarinet
6:30 PM · Hatch Recital Hall. Student degree recital; livestream available. Free
Rochester Fringe Headliner: Pete Davidson
8:00 PM · Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Ticketed
Saturday, September 26
UAA Volleyball Round Robin #1
HOME · Louis Alexander Palestra. Rochester vs. Chicago at 11:00 AM; Rochester vs. Carnegie Mellon at 1:00 PM.
Meet the Artist: Hugo McCloud
Noon–1:00 PM · Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium. Conversation with McCloud and curator Timothy Peterson. FreeRegistration required
ISO Rockin’ Tastebuds: Mooncake Making
2:00–3:00 PM. Hands-on mooncake workshop with mung bean, matcha, and taro fillings. FreeRSVP required
Eastman Virtuosi I
7:30 PM · Kilbourn Hall. Faculty Artist Series; livestream available. Ticketed
RPO Opening Night: Dvořák’s New World Symphony
7:30 PM · Kodak Hall. Andreas Delfs conducts; Leila Josefowicz, violin; music by Michael Torke, John Adams, and Dvořák. Ticketed
Sunday, September 27
Breaking Workshop with SWAZI
11:00 AM–noon · Spurrier Gym. Workshop with Zakhele “SWAZI” Grabowski, a member of Dynamic Rockers and USA Breaking’s youth program. Free
Hispanic Heritage Celebration Day
Noon–4:00 PM · Memorial Art Gallery. Community and cultural tables, music, dance, and presentations. Free for everyone
Synthposium Day 2
1:00–3:00 PM · Computer Studies Building 616. Michelle Moog-Koussa on the Moog legacy and John Chowning on synthesis and electronic music. Free
Going for Baroque
1:30 PM and 3:00 PM · Memorial Art Gallery. Short weekly organ mini-recitals. Free
Monday, September 28
Biology Seminar: Mary Mullins
Noon–1:00 PM · Hutchison 140. “Integrator transcriptional repression and BMP signaling in early vertebrate development.”
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues
5:00–6:00 PM · Humanities Center Conference Room D. Linguistic diversity, migration, and endangered languages in New York and beyond.
Discerning Dionysos
5:00–6:30 PM · Hawkins-Carlson Room. Indigenous veneration of Dionysos in pre-Roman southern Italy. Conflicts with Language City.
Tuesday, September 29
Convents in Context
12:30–2:00 PM · Humanities Center Conference Room D. Claire Becker on the strict rule followed by sixteenth-century Conceptionist nuns.
The U.S.–Canada Trade War
6:00–7:00 PM · Morey 321. Economics Department event; reception follows.
Taco Tuesday with a Trustee: Evans Lam ’83, ’84S (MBA)
6:00–7:30 PM · Carol Simon Hall, Lam bizHub. Conversation on leadership, careers, internships, and student success, with a taco bar. FreeRSVP required; deadline Sept. 24 at 5 PM
Faculty Artist Series: Brock Tjosvold with Kyrsten Chambers Jones and Ryan Hardcastle
7:30 PM · Hatch Recital Hall. Across Time and Space, a recital connecting music, poetry, migration, and storytelling. Ticketed Livestream available.
Wednesday, September 30
Data Bloom: Composing Stories with Data and Viz in Tableau
11:00 AM–12:30 PM · Virtual. River Campus Libraries workshop. Register
TEDxURochester: reHuman
2:30–6:30 PM · Wilson Commons May Room. Student-organized talks centered on humanity, design, innovation, and creativity. Free
Alan Edelman (MIT): “Make Mathematics Your Playground”
3:30–4:30 PM · Hutchison 140. First of Edelman’s G. Milton Wing Lectures.
Is Any Embryo an “Unborn Child”? The Ancient Jewish Debate
5:00–6:30 PM · Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. Center for Jewish Studies event on ancient Jewish debates over embryo status.
Thursday, October 1
Meliora Weekend begins
October 1–4. Alumni, family, reunion, academic, and performance programming begins Thursday; many headline events fall Friday–Sunday. Registration
A Century of American Psychiatry Through the Eyes of One Family
Noon–1:00 PM · SMD 2-6424 + livestream. Health Humanities and Bioethics Grand Rounds.
Computer Science Seminar: Frank Ferraro
2:00–3:00 PM · Wegmans 1400 + Zoom. UMBC computer scientist; seminar details are still listed as TBD.
Alan Edelman (MIT): “Symmetric Spaces, Random Matrix Theory, and Numerical Linear Algebra”
3:30–4:30 PM · Hylan 101. Second G. Milton Wing Lecture.
Fall Writer’s Lounge
5:00–7:00 PM · Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Center Lounge. Casual writing and critique session with refreshments.
Source Health
- University calendar: active, but a duplicate listing for Friday’s Reimagining Peer Review incorrectly says 1–4 AM. The direct event page and River Campus Libraries source confirm 1–4 PM; that is the time used above.
- Eastman: active and essential as a separate source. The Cherry Rhodes Celebrity Organ Series concert scheduled for Friday is now explicitly POSTPONED, so it is intentionally not promoted here.
- CampusGroups / CCC: active, but organization landing pages are sometimes stale or thin. Direct RSVP pages remain the more reliable source for events such as Mooncake Making, Primetime, and Taco Tuesday.
- International Theatre Program: active; no main-stage production falls in this window. Big Love begins October 8.
- Sloan Performing Arts Center: its venue feed is sparse this week, but Dance and Movement is active elsewhere, including the Friday krumping and Sunday breaking workshops.
- Economics: active. The department page currently lists the September 25–26 Stockman Alumni Conference and September 29 U.S.–Canada Trade War event.