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.
How IceCube opened a new window on the universe—and earned a Nobel Prize
URochester’s Segev BenZvi was part of IceCube’s award-winning discovery.
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.
Science & Technology
What tiny fossils tell us about Earth’s changing oceans
For paleoceanographer Chiara Borrelli, microscopic fossils buried beneath the seafloor are a window into the oceans of the past—and a changing planet.
Campus & Community
URochester students help New York small businesses harness data and AI
The New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence connected 10 local businesses with student interns.
Health & Medicine
Removing an inflammation-linked protein makes aging worse
URochester researchers have found that cGAS, a protein known for triggering inflammation, also plays a protective role.
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.
Campus & Community
Laurel Carney: Stacking her deck for undergraduate success
The biomedical engineering professor builds student confidence through high expectations and personal attention.
Society & Culture
4 myths about what it means to be a ‘good student’
URochester experts challenge common assumptions about academic success—and offer practical ways to become a more successful college student.
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.
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
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.”
Adrienne Morgan, vice president for engagement and enrichment, announces retirement
Morgan held leadership roles across the University, including at the Health Sciences Campus, for more than three decades.