Research with Rigor. Results with Reach.
By using state-of-the-art microchips, URochester teams are uncovering how the brain is damaged through disease and making breakthroughs in our understanding of brain health.
Discover the keys to brain health
Discovery that moves the world forward
Where wonder shapes a better future
Whether driving innovation in the lab, the classroom, the operating room, or the community, the University of Rochester is united by a commitment to bold inquiry that leads to real impact. We work together across disciplines to ask big questions, solve pressing challenges, and shape what’s next.
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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.
Where Curiosity Becomes a Cure
Researchers at the University of Rochester are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges—from developing life-saving treatments, to pioneering quantum advancements, to building microchip technology for big impact, and harnessing the power of the sun to strengthen national security. At URochester, curiosity meets purpose, and discovery sparks a future that’s ever better.
Laser-focused on Impact
A unique research facility at the forefront of fusion, high-energy-density science, and laser technologies, our Laboratory for Laser Energetics is advancing the frontiers of discovery.
Inquiry fuels us
Bold Inquiry. Big Impact.
URochester economists worked will colleagues across the country to review a 2013 policy, with findings that can guide how financal policies can be used to drive social change.
Wonder in action
Breakthrough Science to Transform Human Health
At our NCI-designated cancer center, cross-functional research teams are working together to trial new treatments to improve outcomes for the deadliest form of cancer: pancreatic cancer.
Ever better, for allDiscovery That Moves the World Forward
Ever Questioning, Ever Curious, Ever Better
We believe that the best standards have yet to be set, and our academic programs prepare students to think beyond convention to solve today’s most pressing challenges.
Better Futures Through Quantum
URochester scientists are leveraging advances in computing to explore fundamental breakthroughs in quantum science and technology.
Big Questions. Bold Solutions.
