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Elmina Castle.

For the last three summers, Rochester undergraduates have worked to analyze and preserve the ancient forts along the coast of Ghana, while exploring the historical and cultural context of the structures they study.

Rochester undergraduates work to analyze and preserve forts along the coast of Ghana, while exploring the cultural context of the structures they study.

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, featured-post-side, Ghana, global engagement, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Michael Jarvis, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, Renato Perucchio,
three people pose for a photo with a surveyor tool.
Campus & Community
December 3, 2019

How do you bring a castle home with you?

How do you convey a 91,000-square-foot castle with more than 160 rooms on the Ghana coast, back to Rochester, so at any time you could take a virtual tour as if you were really there? Or study the castle’s structure brick by brick?

How do you convey a 91,000-square-foot castle with more than 160 rooms on the Ghana coast, back to Rochester, so you could take a virtual tour at any time?

topics: Chris Muir, Department of History, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ghana, global engagement, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Michael Jarvis, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, School of Arts and Sciences,
a bank of flashtubs ignites in the OMEGA laser

Rochester scientists at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and their colleagues in California and France have directly demonstrated for the first time how laser beams modify the conditions of a plasma.

For the first time, Rochester researchers and their colleagues have directly demonstrated how laser beams modify the conditions of a plasma.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dustin Froula, featured-post-side, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Michael Campbell, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
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University News
November 26, 2019

Two Rochester scientists named AAAS fellows

Todd Krauss, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry, and Benjamin Miller, Dean’s Professor of Dermatology, are being recognized this year for their “efforts toward advancing scientific applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”

Professors Todd Krauss and Benjamin Miller are being recognized this year for their “efforts toward advancing scientific applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”

topics: announcements, awards, Benjamin Miller, Department of Chemistry, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Todd Krauss,
portrait of three professors standing in front of a blackboard covered in equations.
Science & Technology
November 25, 2019

Rochester cosmology group has all eyes on dark energy

Rochester’s newly formed cosmology group is at work to create the most detailed 3-D map of the universe ever seen.

Rochester’s newly formed cosmology group keeps the DESI telescope’s 5,000 fiber optic cables correctly aimed at their targets.

topics: data science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, featured-post-side, Regina Demina, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Segev BenZvi,
Mostar Bridge lit up at night.

Peter Christensen, an associate professor of art and art history at the University of Rochester, has a new role as a juror advising the United Nations in its work designating UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Peter Christensen, an associate professor of art and art history, has a new role as a juror advising the United Nations on determining World Heritage sites.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, faculty, featured-post-side, humanities, Peter Christensen, School of Arts and Sciences,
Jin Seokjin Kim

Jin Kim ’19 (T5 ’20) is the first Rochester student to be awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Fellowship, a program designed to attract outstanding candidates from diverse backgrounds to represent the United States in the Foreign Service.

Political science major Jin Kim ’19 (T5 ’20) is the first University of Rochester student to be awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Fellowship.

topics: announcements, diversity, Take Five Scholars Program,
child sitting on a sofa, looking away, mother in the foreground, with her hands angrily on her hips
Society & Culture
November 18, 2019

When do alcohol-dependent mothers parent harshly?

New Rochester research makes considerable progress towards understanding what triggers mothers with substance use disorders to treat their children harshly, and how parents and medical care providers can predict parenting difficulties.

topics: Department of Psychology, Melissa Sturge-Apple, parenting, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,