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A teacher and three students wade in a creek as part of the curriculum at their rural schools in New York State.
Campus & Community
November 24, 2025

Transforming what’s possible for rural schools

How the Warner School’s wide-ranging programs are strengthening the educators, students, and communities at the heart of rural New York.

How the Warner School’s wide-ranging programs are strengthening the educators, students, and communities at the heart of rural New York.

topics: community engagement, Warner School of Education,
Adam Frank against a white background an a thought bubble that reads: "ever wonder do aliens exist"?

URochester astrophysicist Adam Frank searches for traces of advanced technology—and, by extension, alien life—on exoplanets.

Astrophysicist Adam Frank is seeking "technosignatures," or the signs of advanced civilizations, to answer the question, do aliens exist.

topics: Adam Frank, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ever Wonder, exoplanets, School of Arts and Sciences, videos,
Horizontal crop of a portrait of Barry Silverstein with a park and greenery in the background.

The former senior director and chief technology officer of optics and display in Meta’s Reality Labs will direct the Center for Extended Reality.

The former senior director and chief technology officer of optics and display in Meta’s Reality Labs will direct the Center for Extended Reality.

topics: alumni, Barry Silverstein, faculty, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics,
Marisol Herrera-Perez standing with her arms crossed next to a shelf of lab equipment.
Science & Technology
November 18, 2025

Uncovering how cells build tissues and organs

URochester engineers are exploring the mechanical signals that guide development, to gain insights into disease and regenerative medicine.

University of Rochester engineers are exploring the mechanical signals that guide development, to gain insights into disease and regenerative medicine.

topics: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Marisol Herrera-Perez, research funding,
Overhead view of young business professionals tightly grouped and staring ahead, except for one man looking up in dismay to illustrate employee turnover at top firms.
Society & Culture
November 18, 2025

Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers

Elite firms’ notorious ‘revolving door’ culture isn’t arbitrary but rather a way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.

Elite firms’ culture of employee turnover isn’t arbitrary but a rational way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.

topics: research finding, Ron Kaniel, Simon Business School,
Low angle view of a young group of people in a circle holding cellphones to illustrate crowdsourced fact-checking on social media, including Community Notes on X.
Society & Culture
November 17, 2025

The most effective online fact-checkers? Your peers

Research shows being called out by peers, not algorithms or experts, makes online authors think twice about spreading misinformation.

Research shows being called out by peers, not algorithms or experts, makes online authors think twice about spreading misinformation.

topics: Huaxia Rui, research finding, Research Impact Accelerates, Simon Business School,
Political science professor Gretchen Helmke stands in her office with whiteboards and notes behind her.
From the Magazine
November 14, 2025

Office hours with Gretchen Helmke

The 2025 Guggenheim Fellow on turning a passion for reading and writing into a career solving our most vexing political puzzles.

The 2025 Guggenheim Fellow on turning a passion for reading and writing into a career solving our most vexing political puzzles.

topics: Democracy Center, Department of Political Science, faculty, Gretchen Helmke, School of Arts and Sciences,