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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.

Photo illustration featuring URochester students Maryame Kouram, Naman Bhagat, Sherry Wang, and Zihan "Frannie" Zheng against a background featuring the city of Rochester skyline, Rush Rhees Library, and yellow and blue circles.

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.

Solifluction-formed wave patterns on an Alaskan hillslope with a house a pickup truck at the base.

Science & Technology

Why icy landscapes can behave like oobleck

URochester researchers use mathematical modeling to explore how wave-like soil patterns form—and what they could reveal about landscape stability.

Thomas Howard leads the class ECE 216: Mechatronics and Embedded Systems.

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.

Close-up of a hand pulling out a blue colored block from a Jenga-like stack of colorful blocks to illustrate the removal of the cGAS protein from cells.

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.

Claire Boeck against a white background and text that reads "ever wonder" with a thought bubble containing the sentence "what does it mean to be a good student".

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.

Illustration of photodynamic therapy showing light killing a bacterial cell.

Health & Medicine

How light can fight abdominal infections

A light-activated therapy being tested at URochester could give doctors an antibiotic-free way to target stubborn abdominal infections.

Campus & Community

Laurel Carney: Stacking her deck for undergraduate success

The biomedical engineering professor builds student confidence through high expectations and personal attention.

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.