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Your Impact

The generosity of FURL members has supported the:

  • expansion of research and book collections.
  • preservation and conservation efforts in the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation of the River Campus Libraries.
  • improvements to libraries' technologies.
  • innovative library learning and research spaces.
  • acquisition of databases and other non-print formats.
  • Undergraduate Research Initiative Award.
  • digitization and online cataloging of the libraries' special collections.

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Friend Spotlights

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Recognizing Excellence: The Undergraduate Research Initiative Awards

Celebrating the 2023-2024 Undergraduate Research Initiative Award winners at the University of Rochester

Rinaldo Walcott

Neilly Author Series: Rinaldo Walcott

A widely published scholar of interdisciplinary Black studies, Walcott examines the history of Black emancipation and the struggle for freedom.

William Sturkey 2

Neilly Author Series: William Sturkey

A historian of the post-1865 United States, Sturkey offers a compelling exploration of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the shadow of Jim Crow.

Metzdorf Award 

Award for "contributions and meritorious service to the libraries"

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Research Initiative Award 

Recognizes excellence in the early phases of undergraduate research

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