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Two University of Rochester start-up companies are among those singled out in a new report from the Science Coalition identifying 102 companies that trace their roots to federally-funded university research.

topics: Flaum Eye Institute, Institute of Optics, Krystel Huxlin,
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Science & Technology
April 26, 2017

Fruit flies offer gut check on bacteria

Drosophila melanogaster—the common fruit fly—is widely used in laboratory experiments. But what Rochester researchers found when examining the guts of fruit flies in the wild bears little resemblance to what is seen in the lab.

topics: Department of Biology, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Galway Kinnell ’49 (MA) was often compared to Walt Whitman for his lyricism. When he died in 2014, Rochester Review remembered him with a selection of his thoughts on the practice of poetry.

topics: poetry, Rochester Review,
Two Breaking Boundaries participants play a video game in the Humanities Center.

At the “Breaking Boundaries: Video Games in Teaching, Learning, Research, and Design” event, students and scholars discussed the impact of video games and online games on learning and culture, while getting a chance to play.

Students and scholars discuss the impact of video games and online games on learning and culture, while getting a chance to play at the "Breaking Boundaries: Video Games in Teaching, Learning, Research, and Design" event.
topics: School of Arts and Sciences, video games, virtual reality, Warner School of Education,
people in front of multiple large computer screens

Launched in 2016, the institute serves as a hub, bringing together researchers in fields such as public health and political science, with experts in machine learning and data mining.

Data science at the Goergen Institute for Data Science at the University of Rochester is creating numerous opportunities for collaboration with businesses.
topics: big-data-2017, data science, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Jiebo Luo, Timothy Dye, VISTA Collaboratory,
Wegmans Hall
University News
April 24, 2017

Wegmans Hall opens doors to data science

Dedicated during Meliora Weekend last fall, Wegmans Hall will open for researchers this year and will become the home to the Goergen Institute for Data Science.

topics: big-data-2017, data science, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence,
student actors on stage

The International Theatre Program ends its spring semester with a production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Buried Child. The production opens on April 27 and runs through May 6 at the Todd Theater on the University of Rochester’s River Campus. The play, called a “darkly comic portrait of a family brought to its knees by betrayal, adultery, and murder,” is directed by Rochester senior Aishwarya Krishnamoorthy ’17.