Science & Technology
The Magnus effect: The science that allows soccer players to ‘bend it like Beckham’
‘Miracle’ goals scored from seemingly impossible angles are made possible by physics.
NSF selects Rochester and Finger Lakes region as national laser innovation hub
The URochester-led NSF STELLAR Engine launches with $15 million in federal funding.
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
Jim Forrester named interim chief information officer and University vice president
University President Sarah Mangelsdorf is elevating the CIO role to reflect the strategic importance of technology across the entire institution.
Recent awards recognize faculty achievements
As part of an ongoing series, we’re spotlighting accolades for URochester faculty.
Can AI want something? URochester awarded Templeton Foundation grant to find out
The funding launches a new institute to investigate one of science’s biggest mysteries: the difference between life and machines.