• Big Data: What’s it all about?Rochester is at the forefront of what many believe will be a new age of investigation and advances in knowledge, pairing teams of researchers and computational scientists with supercomputing technology to transform huge mountains of data into knowledge.
  • Digital Media StudiesA new major in digital media is designed to give students a liberal arts grounding in perspectives about narrative, analysis, video production, film history, media, technology, and other humanistic approaches, complemented with production-oriented classes in video, audio, Web, and other technologies.
  • Your Brain on Big BirdUsing brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, UR cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.
  • UR plays key role in search for Higgs bosonThe discovery of a new particle that is "consistent with the Higgs boson." marked an important period at the University of Rochester as three physicists and an engineer helped support the nearly five-decades-old theory of one of their colleagues.
  • Marshmallow Study RevisitedA new study demonstrates that being able to delay gratification is influenced as much by the environment as by innate ability.
  • Institute for Popular musicThe University of Rochester has established an Institute for Popular Music that treats the study of popular genres as seriously as classical music.
Big Data: What’s it all about?2 Digital Media Studies3 Your Brain on Big Bird1 UR plays key role in search for Higgs boson4 Marshmallow Study Revisited5 Institute for Popular music6

Research

The very breadth of AS&E, spanning 24 departments as diverse as art history and mechanical engineering, is reflected in the startling array of research questions that are pursued in its labs and classrooms.

Its faculty members have pioneered statistical methods of research in economics, political science, and clinical and social sciences. They have made seminal discoveries in evolutionary biology, vision, and visual and cultural studies. They are at the forefront of brain and cognitive science, high-energy physics and quantum optics, and their efforts in alternative energy confront such societal grand challenges as dwindling petroleum reserves and fossil fuel pollution.

Arts & Humanities

Two professors at the University of Rochester are looking to slow people down using mobile technology.  More »

Engineering

Nano-porous silicon membranes developed at the UR will soon be used to manufacture portable devices that can analyze DNA in remote settings.  More »

Natural Sciences

Biologists at the University of Rochester have determined how blind mole rats fight off cancer.  More »

Social Sciences

Using a national analysis of state legislators, a UR professor documents the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which money buys influence.  More »

David Williams

David Williams

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By the Numbers...

  • 12—Guggenheim scholars among the faculty of AS&E
  • 16—Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences among the faculty of AS&E
  • $57M—AS&E research funding in FY2012
  • 10:1—Student to faculty ratio provides collegial research environment

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