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young woman wearing a black face mask in front of a microscope..

A $12 million challenge fund presents an opportunity to increase the program’s prominence at a critical time for the optics field.

A $12 million challenge fund presents an opportunity to increase the program’s prominence at a critical time for the optics field.

topics: Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics,
Illustration shows two views of the Earth, one focused on Antarctica and one focused on the Arctic, show ocean currents with gold lines.

For the first time, University researchers have quantified the energy of ocean currents larger than 1,000 kilometers.

For the first time, University researchers have quantified the energy of ocean currents larger than 1,000 kilometers.

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Hussein Aluie, research finding,
Graphic of the five people who helped invent bladeless LASIK eye surgery. The graphic says "Congratulations to 2022 Golden Goose awardees Deter Du, Tibor Juhasz, Ron Kurtz, Donna Strickland, and Gerard Albert Louis Mourou. Work funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation."
Science & Technology
September 15, 2022

Developers of bladeless LASIK earn AAAS Golden Goose Award

Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou’s discovery of chirped pulse amplification at the University of Rochester helped make bladeless LASIK possible.

Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou's discovery of chirped pulse amplification at the University of Rochester made bladeless LASIK possible.

topics: alumni, announcements, awards, featured-post-side, Institute of Optics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Nobel Prize,
student in a white lab coat and blue gloves stands in a lab full of equipment.

A first-generation college student and accomplished leader and scholar, Awad aims to address systemic racism and socioeconomic disparities within health care.

Laith Awad aims to address systemic racism and socioeconomic disparities in health care as a recipient of a Voyager Scholarship.

topics: Class of 2024, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Undergraduate Program in Public Health,
portraits of three professors.

Established in 1997, the award recognizes distinction in undergraduate teaching among faculty in Arts, Sciences & Engineering.

Established in 1997, the award recognizes distinction in undergraduate teaching among faculty in Arts, Sciences & Engineering.

topics: Chris Muir, Department of History, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva,
Elizabeth Stauderman.

Since joining Rochester’s leadership team in 2015, Stauderman has led a “digital-first” approach to the University’s communications efforts.

Since joining Rochester’s leadership team in 2015, Stauderman has led a “digital-first” approach to the University’s communications efforts.Since joining Rochester’s leadership team in 2015, Stauderman has led a “digital-first” approach to the University’s communications efforts.

topics: announcements, University Communications,
Brain with the color, texture, and stitching of a football against a blue background with a repeating pattern of a quarterback outlined in lighter blue.
Voices & Opinion
September 13, 2022

Brain’s cognitive bias dominates in fantasy sports

In fantasy sports, “your brain can twist and interpret fantasy results in ways that are suboptimal, lazy, and illogical,” explains scientist Renee Miller.

A cognitive bias is mental process that can lead to illogical and irrational decisions, which can be a problem for fantasy sports players.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, featured-post-side, School of Arts and Sciences,
Laurel Lawson hovers above the stage, arms and wheels lifted, supported by Alice Sheppard who partners her from below. Alice is on her back, lifting Laurel, locking eyes and opening her arms in embrace. They are surrounded by small wood ramps and bathed in cool blue light. Laurel is a white dancer with cropped blue hair and Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short curly hair; their skin, shimmery costumes and chairs reflect the light.

The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

The disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the University of Rochester’s Sloan Performing Arts Center.

topics: diversity, Institute for the Performing Arts, Missy Pfohl Smith, performing arts, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences, Sloan Performing Arts Center,
Three students in military fatigues stand at ease in front of Rush Rhees Library on the quad, the student in the middle holding an American flag.
In Photos
September 9, 2022

We remember

Midshipmen Charlie Shanks ’24, Nicholas Perry (St. John Fisher ’24), and Miriana Kelly ’26 stand as Rochester’s NROTC unit held its annual vigil at the Meridian on Eastman Quadrangle honoring members of the University community who were killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Among the nearly 3,000 people who died during the attacks were six University of Rochester alumni: Jeremy Glick ’93; Jean Hoadley Peterson ’69N; Jeffrey Smith ’87, ’88S (MBA); Zhe (Zack) Zeng ’95, ’98S (MBA); Aram Iskenderian ’82; and Brendan Dolan ’86. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster)

Rochester's NROTC unit held its annual vigil honoring members of the University community who were killed on September 11.

topics: alumni, NROTC,