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Toys that beep. Toys that light up and sing. All adapted by engineering students for children with special needs. For parents visiting the University of Rochester Medical Center, taking home a toy their child can play with themselves is “really awesome.”
Randall Cook, building and project manager for River Campus Libraries, turned a hobby used to relieve the stress of his previous job as a software engineering into the art quilts featured in the Memorial Art Gallery’s “Hidden Passions” series.
Did you know you can major in dance? Or take a course in dance even if you’ve never danced before? As the annual inspireDance Festival gears up later this month, learn more about how dance and Rochester go hand in hand.
Did you know you can major in dance? Or take a course in dance even if you've never danced before? As the annual inspireDance Festival gears up, learn more about how dance and Rochester go hand in hand.
Chicago and Delhi. Rome and Rochester. The students in the 100-level course “The City: Contested Spaces” take a virtual tour of them all, while pondering an overarching question—can people’s lives be reshaped by redesigning urban spaces?
The students in the 100-level course “The City: Contested Spaces” ponder an overarching question—can people’s lives be reshaped by redesigning urban spaces?
Rochester researchers have created particles with negative mass in an atomically thin semiconductor, using a device that creates an optical microcavity.
Negative mass particles created by Rochester researchers in an atomically thin semiconductor, using a device that creates an optical microcavity.
Two University faculty members—William Jones of the Department of Chemistry and Xi-Cheng Zhang of the Institute of Optics—have received prestigious Humboldt Research Awards.
Two University faculty—William Jones of the Department of Chemistry and Xi-Cheng Zhang of the Institute of Optics—have received Humboldt Research Awards.
Hussein Aluie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded an additional 90 million hours of computer time in 2018 by the US Department of Energy to produce detailed simulations of fluid instabilities that hinder fusion “ignition.”
Hussein Aluie has been awarded a 90 million hours of computer time on an Argonne National Laboratory supercomputer to produce detailed simulations.
Each year, the University of Rochester produces academic and scholarly work that contributes to our understanding and appreciation of the world around us.
Each year, the University of Rochester produces academic and scholarly work that contributes to our understanding and appreciation of the world around us.
The Toys for All Tots student organization hosts workshops to teach other students and community members how to adapt battery-powered toys so that children with limited mobility can activate them on their own.
The Toys for All Tots student organization teaches other students and volunteers how to adapt toys so children with limited mobility use them on their own.
The Willow Center’s Purple Box campaign, which takes place every November in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, collects new toys and more for children and mothers.