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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.
A safer lithium-ion battery that reduces the risk of fire in electric vehicles, developed by a University chemical engineer and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named one of R&D Magazine’s 100 inventions of the year.
A safer lithium-ion battery that reduces the risk of fire in electric vehicles has been named one of R&D Magazine's 100 inventions of the year.
Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honor society for liberal arts and sciences, celebrates its birthday this month, and we honor the 17 students who were elected last spring as juniors.
Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest honor society for liberal arts and sciences, and we honor the 17 students who were elected last spring as juniors.
Professor Robert Doran focuses on iconic 20th-century philosophers like Michel Foucault, Hayden White, Gayatri Spivak, and Richard Rorty, and explores critical theory’s pivot away from a narrowly focused investigation of meaning and text.
Professor Robert Doran focuses on critical theory's pivot from a narrowly focused investigation of text to a broad engagement with culture and politics.