From the Magazine
The methane hunters
How URochester scientists are tracking the elusive greenhouse gas—and why it matters.
What every American needs to know about voter turnout
URochester political scientists explain the rules, behaviors, barriers, and math behind voter turnout.
Campus & Community
Measure by measure: Making music inside Monroe County Jail
A new partnership explores what happens when incarcerated people are given the chance not just to listen to music but to create it.
Science & Technology
Improving AI-generated images, pixel by pixel
Researchers from URochester and NVIDIA develop new models that provide pixel-level control over AI image generation.
Campus & Community
Riley Laygo ’27 is rewriting the URochester softball record book
After a record-breaking season, the Yellowjackets star is exploring what else she can do.
Campus & Community
How to write your best college application essay
URochester’s enrollment leader offers applicants insight into writing their college application essay and personal statement.
Society & Culture
The power of being local in the immigration debate
A new book interrogates how the struggle over who counts as local shapes migration politics.
Campus & Community
Benjamin Hafensteiner: Helping students connect the dots
An engaging and approachable teaching style in chemistry earned Hafensteiner URochester’s highest award for undergraduate instruction.
Campus & Community
Laurel Carney: Stacking her deck for undergraduate success
The biomedical engineering professor builds student confidence through high expectations and personal attention.
Campus & Community
Thomas Howard: Find big problems that will keep you challenged
Embracing change in the ever-evolving field of robotics earned Howard URochester’s highest award for teaching.
Ever wonder: why not both?
At the University of Rochester, there’s no need to “pick a lane.” Here, art meets analytics, science meets soul, and curiosity leads to unexpected outcomes. It’s a home where thinkers and doers, scholars and starters, healers and leaders come together to create a world that’s ever better.
University news
What does the future of the Simon Business School look like?
Simon Business School Interim Dean Mitch Lovett discusses how AI, shifting enrollment patterns, and evolving workforce needs are reshaping business education.
URochester names Christian Darabos inaugural associate vice president for research computing
The new role will help advance the computing, data, and AI capabilities that power research and discovery across the University.
Maiken Nedergaard elected to the National Academy of Medicine
The academy cited Nedergaard for “transforming neuroscience and medicine by discovering the glymphatic system, revealing sleep-dependent brain waste clearance.”