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As a teenager, Wayne Knox ’79, ’84 (PhD) “sometimes filled the house with smoke” while building short wave radios and other electronic gadgets from scratch. Now the optics professor is among this year’s NAI fellows.
For more than 30 years, researchers have been creating quantum dots—nanoscale semiconductors with remarkable properties. But quantum dot synthesis has occurred largely by trial and error. Thanks to the work of two Rochester chemists, that may be about to change.
Two Rochester chemists describe the underlying mechanisms involved in the formation of a widely used class of quantum dots.
During Monday’s ceremony, Runner discussed his path from college dropout to dean, and his desire to make the University a place of inclusiveness for all.
During Monday’s ceremony, Runner discussed his path from college dropout to dean, and his desire to make the University a place of inclusiveness for all.
Chunlei Guo, with the Institute of Optics, and Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo, with the Department of Pediatrics, were recently awarded separate $1.5 million grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest Gates Foundation grants ever awarded in the University’s history.
Two University researchers were recently awarded the largest Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants ever awarded in the University’s history.
A student string quartet performs in Lowry Hall at the Eastman School of Music’s traditional Holiday Sings event. The performance takes place on the last day of classes every year. (University photo / Michelle Martorell)
A student string quartet performs in Lowry Hall at the Eastman School of Music's traditional Holiday Sing event.
The non-profit organization Fusion Power Associates awarded its Distinguished Career Award to recently retired director Robert McCrory, as well as other awards to the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at their annual meeting.
Fusion Power Associates presented awards to several members of the University's Laboratory for Laser Energetics at their 38th annual meeting in December.
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?
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.
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.
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?