Dorm/Mail
On campus housing is at the University of Rochester's River Campus as well as across the pedestrial bridge across the river.
Dorm
In summer 2024 the dorm is Brooks Crossing. Housing logistics will be handled by the Kearns Center at the University. Brooks Crossing is airconditioned and fully furnished, so no need to bring any furniture if living there. Each resident has a private room and private bathroom and shares a kitchen in the apartment. The beds are twin XL. The furnished apartment does include all utilities including internet. The apartments are not equipped with bedlinens, pillows, shower curtain, towels, kitchen utensils, etc. Students should bring their own of these items. Generally students that are driiving bring enough cooking/eating supplies. We also have bins of items such as some bedding, coat hangers, blankets, towels, some plates that are OK in the microwave, etc. Students do not want to take these things on the plane or ship them home so we have accumulated things. Everything is sorted and clean. We will put the bins in one of the apartments 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 process must be completed in order to get your key to your dorm!
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 cooking/eating/paper/cleaning supplies and anything else that is not easily transported by those that arrive by plane! Sometimes students ship themselves a small box or two 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.
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 just 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