Dorm/Mail
On campus housing is at the University of Rochester's River Campus.
Dorm
In summer 2025 the dorm will be Tiernan hall on River Campus. Housing logistics will be handled by the Kearns Center at the University. The beds are twin XL. The dorm is NOT air conditioned but everyone will have a single room. There is one stove per floor for cooking. The program will provide a microfridge unit for each student. We have bins of a few items such as some bedding, coat hangers, blankets, towels, etc. Students do not want to take these things on the plane or ship them home so we have accumulated some items. Everything is sorted and clean. We will put the bins in one of the rooms so that you can "shop".
There is also a U of R shuttle that goes to the nearby Target, Walmart, a big Wegmans grocery store, etc a few afternoons a week. There is a Dollar Tree and CVS at College Town - a couple of blocks from campus.
The UR Residential Life Summer website has the online registration process. The Kearns Center will provide details.
Charges (paid by the REU program) are by the week starting on Sunday with departure on Saturdays. We understand that some might have different arrive/depart dates. The Kearns Center has to send an estimated list of rooms and number of weeks needed by mid April and specifics about each person with arrival/depart date and other details in late April/early May.
It would be very helpful if those that are driving to Rochester bring with them supplies (such as a fan!) and anything else that is not easily transported by those that arrive by plane! Sometimes students ship themselves a small box in advance. Please do not make the boxes too heavy.
Mail/packages
The post office is located in the lower level of Todd Union Bldg. It is possible to ship boxes home from there via UPS, FedEx or the US Postal service.
Do NOT use the dorm address for any mail or packages. The US post office does NOT deliver to University dormitories. There is no access to the building for delivery of anything ordered online and it is not advisable to have anything delivered that might be left by the outside doorway to the large building.
There are ATM machines on campus and the nearest bank branch of JP Morgan Chase is on the ground floor of the medical center on the south side of Elmwood Avenue that is a short walk from campus.
For those of you with the Physics REU, you can have packages sent to the Physics Department Office. We will give the person at the reception desk at the Department the list of REU participants so she knows who to contact when a package arrives. Be sure to 'track' your package if possible.
That address is
Your Name
University of Rochester
Dept of Physics, Bausch and Lomb Bldg
284 Hutchison Road
Rochester, NY 14627