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How did water vapor became integral to the development and design of a novel device for detecting the DNA biomarkers affiliated with disease?

How did water vapor became integral to the development and design of a novel device for detecting the DNA biomarkers affiliated with disease?

topics: Department of Biomedical Engineering, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, James McGrath, Materials Science Program, nanotechnology, research finding, URnano,
singers in costume carrying food at Boar's Head Dinner

Feldman Ballroom in Douglass Commons was transformed into a 16th century English court for the annual Boar’s Head Dinner, a University tradition since 1934. The banquet was inspired by a 16th-century Oxford University legend in which a student walking through the woods was attacked by a wild boar and saved by a fellow scholar who thrust a copy of Aristotle’s work down the boar’s throat.

artist conception of icy particles in space

Unlike typical observatories that are positioned on the ground or in space, the telescope Dan Watson is working on is situated in between — on a Boeing 747SP jet airliner.

Dan Watson is helping to develop HIRMES, a high-resolution, mid-infrared spectrometer that will be part of NASA's next airborne telescope.

topics: Dan Watson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, featured-post-side, planets, School of Arts and Sciences,
hand held under a portable optical scanner
Science & Technology
November 30, 2017

Cutting-edge science leads to cut-free biopsies

What if biopsies could be performed noninvasively as part of the initial procedure, so surgeons would know immediately whether additional cancerous tissue needed to be removed?

What if the biopsy could be performed noninvasively so the surgeon would know immediately whether additional skin cancer tissue needed to be removed?

topics: featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, Jannick Rolland, Materials Science Program,
Maria Hinojosa

The four-time Emmy winner and host of National Public Radio’s Latino USA and PBS’s America By The Numbers will deliver the University’s 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address on Friday, January 19.

Host of National Public Radio’s Latino USA and PBS’s America By The Numbers delivers the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Address on Friday, January 19.

topics: diversity, events, featured-post-side, Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address, Office of Minority Student Affairs,
Dr. Atwater stands in front of a table covered in AIDS health posters
Society & Culture
November 30, 2017

Posters present a visual history of AIDS epidemic

For decades, Edward Atwater ’50, a professor emeritus of medicine at the Medical Center, has collected medical history artifacts. In 2007, he began turning his collection of more than 8,000 AIDS education posters over to the University and it is now the world’s largest single collection of visual resources related to AIDS and HIV.

The University of Rochester libraries are home to the world’s largest single online collection of visual resources related to AIDS and HIV.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, featured-post, HIV and AIDS,
illustration of a black bird against a red background.

This fifth collection of poetry from the Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English had its roots in a poem he wrote called “Pastoral,” which would set the collection’s tone of “feeling or spiritual development.”

This fifth collection of poetry from Longenbach had its roots in a poem called “Pastoral,” which would set the tone of “feeling or spiritual development.”

topics: Department of English, James Longenbach, literature, School of Arts and Sciences,
director standing on stage

The two-time Obie Award-winner is in Rochester to direct Octavia, a play ripped from the headlines in the year AD 62.

topics: featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
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The Special Committee of the University of Rochester’s Board of Trustees announced today that an Independent Investigation into allegations raised in a complaint to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will be completed by early January.

Special Committee announced today that an Independent Investigation into allegations raised in a complaint to the EEOC will be completed by early January.

Teresa Valdez behind a podium at the Language Center, with the words "We’ve tried to bring international and domestic students together in one space of interaction ...We want to grow and grow.

Language Center director Teresa Valdez speaks at an event Tuesday celebrating the center’s one-year anniversary. Located in Douglass Commons, the center’s mission is to raise intercultural awareness and promote the 18 languages offered on the River Campus. Valdez says enrollment in foreign language classes has increased 22 percent since the center opened last fall.(University of Rochester photo / Jordan Mangefrida)

Language Center director Teresa Valdez speaks at an event Tuesday celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Language Center.

topics: Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center,