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Members of the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge Team can take their senior engineering capstone project on the road, competing nationally with other student engineers to design, build, and race a new vehicle.

Members of the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge Team can take their senior engineering capstone project on the road.
topics: Class of 2019, Hajim Design Day, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
posed photo of peace officers.

A new class of 25 sworn peace officers includes individuals proficient in Spanish, French, Tamil, Sinhala, and American Sign Language, with a range of professional backgrounds—military, health care, higher education, and the private sector.

A new class of 25 sworn peace officers includes individuals proficient in Spanish, French, Tamil, Sinhala and American Sign Language.
topics: announcements, Department of Public Safety,
artist illustration shows cylinder converting to blocks of ice.
Science & Technology
May 15, 2019

‘Exotic’ form of ice both solid and liquid

Using lasers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, researchers have created a superionic water ice, identifying and recording the ice’s atomic structure for the first time and changing our understanding of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune.

Researchers have created a superionic water ice, recording the ice’s atomic structure and changing our understanding of ice giant planets like Neptune.
topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, planets, research finding,
student playing a guitar and looking at a computer screen with the Skethcassette plugin interface on the screen.

Warble. Wow. Flutter. A team of audio and music engineering graduates is bring back these irregular, low-fi sounds from four-track cassette recordings of the 1980s and ’90s with a digital plug-in.

A team of audio and music engineering graduates is bring back the irregular, low-fi sounds from four-track cassette recordings with a digital plug-in.
topics: Audio and Music Engineering, Class of 2019, Hajim Design Day, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
student speaks to a visitor at his demo table at the Hajim Design Day.

For their capstone project, a senior design team has built a demonstration model for museum audiences of the Nobel Prize-winning laser technology developed by Rochester alumna Donna Strickland ’89 (PhD).

A senior design team has built a demonstration model for museum audiences of Nobel Prize-winning laser technology developed by Donna Strickland ’89 (PhD).
topics: Class of 2019, community, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics,

Works in the Class of 2019 senior art exhibition explored themes such as interpersonal relationships, environmentalism, and emotional expression.

Works in the Class of 2019 senior art exhibition explored themes such as interpersonal relationships, environmentalism, and emotional expression.
topics: Class of 2019, Department of Art and Art History, School of Arts and Sciences,
Alex Johnson standing behind a practice carillon

With a major in physics and a minor in music, Alex Johnson ’19 is heading to Belgium after graduation to learn more about “the bells” that inspired him in Rochester. “Lots of deciding to do. There isn’t a wrong decision.”

With a major in physics and a minor in music, Alex Johnson '19 is heading to Belgium after graduation to learn more about "the bells” that inspired him.
topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Class of 2019, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hopeman Memorial Carillon,

Rochester biologist Amanda Larracuente and her colleagues have successfully sequenced one of the most repetitive parts of fruit fly genome, unlocking one of the “last frontiers of genome assembly.”

Rochester researchers have sequenced one of the most repetitive parts of the fruit fly genome, unlocking one of the “last frontiers of genome assembly.”
topics: Amanda Larracuente, Department of Biology, genetics, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
portrait of the late congresswoman Louise Slaughter

The family of Louise and Bob Slaughter is donating the late congresswoman’s official papers to the University of Rochester. River Campus Libraries will house, archive, and make available the Louise M. Slaughter Congressional Collection in the coming years.

The family of Louise and Bob Slaughter is donating the late congresswoman's official papers to the University of Rochester.
topics: announcements, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, New York congressional delegation, River Campus Libraries,
Hannah Dick seated in Meliora Hall

Hannah Dick ’19, ’19E knew she wanted to pursue a college degree in music. But that wasn’t all. Graduating with dual degrees in percussion and brain and cognitive science, she plans to use music to help people.

Graduating with dual degrees in percussion and brain and cognitive science, Hannah Dick plans to use music to help people.
topics: Class of 2019, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Eastman School of Music, School of Arts and Sciences,