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Former assistant professor of economics
Former Laboratory for Laser Energetics faculty member and senior scientist
Member of the economics faculty in the 1960s and 1970s
Senior research associate 1942–45
Founding dean of the School of the Medicine and Dentistry
Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
“Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra”
“Trombone Concerto”
Associate professor of art history
Professor of English
Professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate professor of biology
Associate professor of economics
Associate professor of history
Associate professor of biology
Professor of art history and of visual and cultural studies
Professor of history
William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics and director of the Center for Visual Science
Professor of English
Professor of chemistry
Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English
Professor of history
Professor of mechanical and aerospace sciences and of astronomy
Professor of art history and of visual and cultural studies
Professor of chemistry and of optics
Professor of physics
Professor of chemistry
Professor of English
Professor of composition, Eastman School of Music
Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
Historian with a focus in African history
Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
The Rochester environment fuels innovations and fosters collaborations to take on the world’s biggest challenges.
Amazon, Ernst & Young, Google, Lockheed Martin, and Microsoft are some of the top employers of recent University of Rochester graduating classes. (Source)
The University’s Institute of Optics was the nation’s first optical science, engineering, and design program and has granted over half of all degrees in optics awarded in the United States.
The Laboratory for Laser Energetics is the largest university-based US Department of Energy program in the nation and home to the largest and most powerful laser systems found at any academic institution in the world.
Referred to as the “mini MET,” the Memorial Art Gallery’s permanent collection of more than 12,000 objects has been called the state’s best-balanced collection outside New York City.
The University has launched 62 high-technology startup firms since 1996 based on advances such as the “dithering” algorithm used for image rendering on virtually every printer and computer screen and the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine protecting against cervical cancer.
Our researchers have helped conduct pivotal trials leading to four FDA-approved treatments for Parkinson’s disease.