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two student actors seated on a stage, both looking away from each other.

Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the International Theatre Program’s New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights

'Fellowship' is the latest production commissioned as part of the New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights

topics: Department of English, Institute for the Performing Arts, Nigel Maister, performing arts, School of Arts and Sciences,
Close-up of a member of the species of Northern paper wasps.

University of Rochester undergraduate students and their biology professor study what paper wasps—and the parasites that manipulate them—can tell us about evolution, aging, and group living.

University of Rochester researchers study paper wasps—and parasites that manipulate them—to learn about evolution, aging, and group living.

topics: Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate research,
Satellite view of Vredefort crater with the dome and epicenter of impact labeled.

Researchers have provided a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth’s largest crater two billion years ago.

University of Rochester scientists have provided a more accurate model of the impact that created Vredefort crater 2 billion years ago.

topics: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Miki Nakajima, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate research,
Eastman Quad in the fall.

Members of the University community with federal student loans may be eligible for student debt relief.

Student debt relief programs are available to eligible University of Rochester community members who carry federal student loans.

topics: alumni, financial aid, staff, tuition,
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, 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,