Society & Culture
What crime and prison reveal about incarceration—and about us
URochester researchers on how childhood trauma, parental incarceration, and even discipline in schools shape criminal justice outcomes.
Student entrepreneurs learn business by starting one
URochester students launch and build companies as part of their campus experience.
Health & Medicine
A new way to prepare doctors for difficult conversations
URochester researchers have developed SOPHIE, a virtual ‘patient’ that trains doctors to communicate better.
Society & Culture
The cookbook that taught generations of Jews how to become American
A new book reveals how The Settlement Cook Book became an unlikely guide to immigration, assimilation, memory, and belonging.
Campus & Community
Driven to be ever better through off-roading
URochester students gain hands-on engineering experience through designing, building, and racing off-road vehicles together.
Science & Technology
The biggest misconception about vision? That you see reality
Human vision isn’t a direct recording of the world. That’s why virtual and augmented reality still struggle to replicate it.
From the Magazine
The art of what’s next
At the Memorial Art Gallery, Timothy Peterson is building a collection that reflects today’s complexity while helping shape the canon that endures.
Campus & Community
An out-of-this-world design hits the high notes
Medicine, engineering, and pedagogy experts harmonize to help a French horn student overcome a rare throat condition.
From the Magazine
While you were sleeping: URochester reshapes the science of sleep
URochester’s researchers and clinicians are helping us understand the science of sleep—including how it might be one of the most consequential forces in human health.
From the Magazine
Our man in China
For seven years, Dan Wang ’15 observed, documented, and analyzed a nation changing at breakneck speed. Now he’s got world leaders hanging on his every word.
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
Headliners, programs, and events announced for Meliora Weekend 2026
The University’s signature celebration features nearly 300 events, bestselling authors, and award-winning entertainers.
URochester launches first NY THRIVE partnership to accelerate semiconductor innovation
The collaboration combines University expertise with industry to develop technologies for faster, more energy-efficient computing.
NSF selects Rochester, New York, and Finger Lakes region as national laser innovation hub
The URochester-led NSF STELLAR Engine launches with $15 million in federal funding.