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lighted hoops on black grid

A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire, a finding that could be a step towards building computer chips capable of transporting digital information at the speed of light.

topics: Institute of Optics, Nick Vamivakas, photonics, quantum science, research finding, URnano,
two students with President Seligman on the steps of the library, as Seligman rings a handheld bell
In Photos
September 2, 2014

Ring in the new

President Joel Seligman and students Antoinette Esce ’15 and Russell Rosenkranz ’15 ring a replica of the bell used by Martin Brewer Anderson, the university’s first president, to signal class changes.

topics: events, Joel Seligman,
From the Magazine
September 1, 2014

The blue noise mask and URochester’s tech legacy

Two University engineers helped transform the early days of the digital revolution, setting off a “virtuous cycle” of research and invention that continues to be felt decades later. That’s the…

The blue noise mask, transformed digital imaging and printing, becoming one of the University’s most impactful engineering breakthroughs.

large group of students in matching t-shirts pushing wheelbarrows and carrying gardening equipment
Campus & Community
August 29, 2014

PHOTO GALLERY: Wilson Day 2014

The incoming Class of 2018 fanned out into the surrounding neighborhoods of Rochester during the 26th annual Wilson Day of community service.

topics: Class of 2018, community, events, Rochester Center for Community Leadership, Wilson Day,
safety officers in Park Lot on Move In Day
University News
August 29, 2014

Public Safety debuts new Adopt-a-Hall program

As part of the program, assigned officers will introduce themselves to the residents and provide them with their work e-mail address. They will attend hall meetings at least two times per semester, and hall staff will be able to request safety and prevention presentations through them.

topics: announcements, Department of Public Safety,
initials UR illuminated in brightly colored points

University researchers have introduced a new method, called compressive direct measurement, that allowed the team to reconstruct a quantum state at 90 percent fidelity using only a quarter of the measurements required by previous methods.

topics: Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, photonics, quantum science, research finding, Robert Boyd,
student gives high five to Rocky mascot
Campus & Community
August 26, 2014

PHOTO GALLERY: Move-In Day 2014

The University of Rochester’s incoming freshmen class arrives, with about 1,300 students moving into five residential halls on the River Campus and the downtown Eastman School of Music. Welcome to Rochester, Class of 2018!

topics: Class of 2018, events, Move-In Day,
Paul Burgett behind the podium on stage at convocation with student musicians behind him
In Photos
August 26, 2014

Full many fair and famous streams…

Vice President and University Dean Paul Burgett leads the incoming freshman class in their first singing of the alma mater — with the help of the University’s a cappella ensembles — at the annual Convocation ceremony.

Douglas Crimp in his office

Leading scholars, artists, and critics from around the world will gather at the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin on August 28 to celebrate the work of Douglas Crimp, who turned 70 this month. Known for his work as an art critic, theorist, curator, and activist, his work was instrumental in the development of the field of queer studies.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, Douglas Crimp, events, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, LGBTQI, School of Arts and Sciences,
Rachel Foster Avery and Susan Brownell Anthony

94 years ago with the formal adoption of the 19th Amendment, women won the right to vote. Now, a newly discovered collection of Susan B. Anthony letters will help show how. The letters were written by Anthony to her “most cherished young lieutenant” Rachel Foster Avery.

topics: announcements, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, Susan B. Anthony,