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Six names tag stickers that ID different professional identity types, including student, engineer, manager, lecturer, writer researcher.

“It brings together writing pedagogy, career and life design, and campus stakeholders,” says lead instructor Laura Jones.

The University of Rochester's course on communicating your professional identity teaches students skills to navigate the professional world.

topics: alumni, featured-post, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Writing Speaking and Argument Program,
Two blue- and yellow-colored robots work at a laptop to illustrate the concept of ai chatbots like chatgpt affecting higher education.

University administrators and faculty weigh in on the pros and cons of the newest online learning tool.

University administrators and faculty weigh in on the pros and cons of ChatGPT and AI chatbots, the newest online learning tools.

topics: artificial intelligence, Department of Computer Science, Department of Philosophy, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Writing Speaking and Argument Program,
An elderly Tim McCarver fist pumps the air in a Phillies jersey

Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith reflects on how the late Hall of Famer brought a cerebral edge to the game he loved.

The University of Rochester's Curt Smith reflects on how late Hall of Famer Tim McCarver brought a cerebral edge to the game he loved.

topics: Curt Smith, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences,
Closeup profile view of eye on woman gazing straight ahead to illustrate fixational eye movement role in vision.

“Fixational” eye movements play a larger role in vision than previously thought, according to Rochester researchers.

Small, involuntary, "fixational" eye movements play a big role in vision, according to University of Rochester researchers.

topics: Center for Visual Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, featured-post-side, Michele Rucci, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Ukrainian person in hat and coat walks with cane on sidewalk past bombed building to illustrate what is happening in Ukraine.
Society & Culture
February 22, 2023

A year at war: what’s next for Ukraine?

Political scientists Randall Stone and Hein Goemans discuss military developments, the efficacy of sanctions, and how to contain—and end—the war in Ukraine.

University of Rochester experts discuss what is happening in Ukraine, from military developments to how and when the war will end.

topics: Department of Political Science, Hein Goemans, Randall Stone, School of Arts and Sciences,
Black-and-white historic photo shows workers cleaning, caulking, pointing, and making the iron watertight invert of New Jersey's South Tunnel east to illustrate biased state spending at the district level.

Scholars show a “direct link” from the 1920s to the early 1960s between the race, class, and immigration status of constituents and their district’s share of state funds.

Scholars show a direct link from the 1920s to the early 1960s between race, class, and immigration status of constituents and state spending.

topics: Department of Political Science, Gerald Gamm, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Optics students wearing masks in a lab.

Rochester researchers achieve strong optical-acoustic interactions with long-lived acoustic waves.

University of Rochester researchers achieve strong optical-acoustic interactions with long-lived acoustic waves using a tapered optical fiber.

topics: Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, research finding, William Renninger,
Close-up of a perovskite crystalline stone against a white background. Perovskites show great potential as light absorbing material.

By harnessing the power of metals, Rochester researchers are making the material an ever more viable replacement for silicon in solar cells and detectors.

Chunlei Guo has proposed a physics-based approach that increases the light conversion of perovskite by 250 percent.

topics: featured-post, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, Materials Science Program, research finding,
Undergraduate student in the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction lab seen with a computer screen displaying an AI avatar.
Campus & Community
February 15, 2023

Lab experience your first year in college? Yes.

With faculty and graduate student mentorship, undergraduate researchers thrive in the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction lab.

With faculty and graduate student mentorship, undergraduate researchers thrive in the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction lab.

topics: artificial intelligence, Department of Computer Science, Ehsan Hoque, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, undergraduate research, Zhen Bai,