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First-year medical students assemble for a photo after the Dr. Robert L. & Lillian H. Brent White Coat Ceremony, marking the start of their journey toward becoming physicians.

A pedestrian bridge linking Rush Rhees Library with the Frederick Douglass Building is one of the renovations under construction on River Campus this summer. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

The NROTC honor guard presents colors during a dedication and remembrance ceremony for University alumnus Zhe 鈥淶ack鈥� Zeng '95, '98S (MBA), a former Brighton Volunteer Ambulance member who was killed at the September 11 attacks while helping first responders at the World Trade Center. Earlier this year, Brighton dedicated its new ambulance, 鈥淚n memory of Zhe 鈥榋ack鈥� Zeng and all the rescuers who died on September 11, 2001. 鈥楽o Others May Live.鈥� 鈥� / (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

The River Campus, with Rush Rhees Library at its center, as seen from the the top of the Brooks Crossing apartments across the Genesee River. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

Mercury appears as a tiny black dot visible below the weathervane on top of Rush Rhees Library as it glides in front of the sun. Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system, passes between the Earth and the sun only 13 times in a century, and took seven and a half hours to traverse the sun today. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

The weather could not have been better for this year's Dandelion Day celebration. Dandelion Day, one of the University's oldest traditions, is a day of music, food, and celebration as the spring semester winds to a close.

Aisha Mohamed '19 takes a ride on the carnival swings at the annual Dandelion Day celebrations marking the start of SpringFest Weekend. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

Charles Blow, New York Times columnist and CNN commentator, read from his memoir, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, yesterday evening in the Hawkins-Carlson Room in Rush Rhees Library. "This book is about remembering, against all that this world may signal to the contrary, that you are not forever broken," he said. "You are capable of giving and receiving love, and you are deserving of it.

Joan Saab, associate professor of art history and visual and cultural studies, points to illustrations popularized in the 19th century press purporting to prove there was life on the moon, during the inaugural Hagop and Artemis Nazerian Humanities Lecture. 鈥淚鈥檓 interested in this moment in the 19th century when people are willing to suspend disbelief and see things鈥攁nd even though they know they鈥檙e not true, to believe for that moment that they are." (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

Marc Morial, the president of the National Urban League and a former mayor of New Orleans, delivered the University鈥檚 annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address, after the event had been postponed due to weather. "Every generation has a responsibility and a mission to improve things," Morial told students at the Douglass Leadership House earlier in the day. "When you succeed, go back," he said. "Do not forget the communities from whence you've come." (蘑菇传媒 photo / J. Adam Fenster)

The five-story, 50-foot sculpture made from more than 40,000 compostable balloons currently on display in the Sibley Building atrium in downtown Rochester is the work of University graduate and artist Larry Moss '92. The exhibit closes this Sunday, February 7, with a giant "popping party." (蘑菇传媒 photo / J. Adam Fenster)