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Robert McCrory

Professor Robert L. McCrory, a physicist and scientific leader who has shepherded the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics to international prominence during the past 35 years, will retire from the directorship on October 1.

topics: high-energy-density physics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics,
four students posing for a photo
Campus & Community
September 28, 2017

A different kind of college TOUR

A partnership between the University and local community organizations, the TOUR program has made a college experience accessible to hundreds of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A partnership between the University and local organizations, TOUR makes a college experience accessible to hundreds of young adults with disabilities.
topics: community, Rochester Center for Community Leadership,
University seal

Today, the Special Committee overseeing the independent investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation at the University of Rochester announced a series of measures intended to confirm the rigor, fairness and transparency of the investigative process.

Today, the Special Committee announced a series of measures intended to confirm the rigor, fairness and transparency of the investigative process.
topics: board of trustees,
laser shining a pulse of light onto a thin film of water

Optics professor Xi-Cheng Zhang has worked for nearly a decade to solve a scientific puzzle.

Xi-Cheng Zhang has worked for nearly a decade to solve a scientific puzzle that many believed to be impossible: producing terahertz waves from liquid water.
topics: Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, research finding, URnano,
Jordan Smith and Rebecca Mooney
Campus & Community
September 27, 2017

Student leaders take the reins

The University’s first all-female Students’ Association leadership team sits down with Quadcast host Peter Iglinski to talk about their plans for the 2017-17 academic year.

topics: Class of 2018, QuadCast, Students' Association,
man surrounded by thin, colorful strands of light

Inspired by Austin’s South by Southwest conference, the organizers of this year’s event partnered with RIT and the City of Rochester to highlight the region as a source for innovation.

Inspired by Austin's South by Southwest conference, the organizers of this year's event partnered with RIT and the City of Rochester.
topics: Audio and Music Engineering, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences, community, Light and Sound Interactive, Mark Bocko, virtual reality,
Close-up of a microphone.

The Humanities Center has announced its slate of public lecture series speakers for this year’s theme of “memory and forgetting.”

topics: Department of Art and Art History, Douglas Crimp, events, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Humanities Center, School of Arts and Sciences,
Mark Watters

The Emmy winner has composed musical scores for movies, television, video games, even the Olympics. At the inaugural Light and Sound Interactive, he shares his thoughts on this rapidly changing field.

The Emmy winner has composed scores for movies, TV, and video games. He shares his thoughts on this rapidly changing field.
topics: Eastman School of Music, Light and Sound Interactive, virtual reality,