Bob Marcotte

bmarcotte@ur.rochester.edu

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

Campus & Community

‘Communicating Your Professional Identity’ flourishes at 10

February 28, 2023

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

Optics students wearing masks in a lab.

Science & Technology

Tapered optical fiber addresses challenge posed by Brillouin scattering

February 17, 2023

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

Close-up of a perovskite crystalline stone against a white background. Perovskites show great potential as light absorbing material.

Science & Technology

Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient

February 16, 2023

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

Campus & Community

Lab experience your first year in college? Yes.

February 15, 2023

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

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Science & Technology

A simpler, single-minded computer to solve complex problems

February 10, 2023

Rochester engineers develop novel Ising machines with federal research and development funding support from DARPA.

Omega laser array lit in green against black background aiming at target.

Science & Technology

Viscosity presents a sticky plasma problem for fusion, high-energy-density experiments

January 4, 2023

University of Rochester scientists set out to explain how—and how much—in order to improve future experiments.

Campus & Community

New award sends humanities graduate students abroad

December 13, 2022

Four Rochester doctoral candidates will research in archives in a dozen countries as recipients of the Meliora Global Scholars grant.

jagged laser lines on a small chip.

Science & Technology

A laser that could ‘reshape the landscape of integrated photonics’

October 21, 2022

Rochester researchers see applications in LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), atomic physics, and augmented and virtual reality.

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Science & Technology

Seed funding reflects how data science, AR/VR transform research at Rochester

October 17, 2022

The University’s Goergen Institute for Data Science supports collaborative projects across all disciplines.

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Campus & Community

These students thrive where STEM, humanities intersect

October 13, 2022

The Wells Award recognizes engineering students who excel in humanistic disciplines.

Close-up of microscopic skin tissue shown as purple and pink swirls.

Science & Technology

Novel imaging system could mean near-instant biopsy results

September 27, 2022

The new imaging system developed by Michael Giacomelli, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and of optics, uses two-photon fluorescence microscopy (TPFM).

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Science & Technology

How do magnetic fields affect star formation and high-energy-density lab experiments?

September 19, 2022

Rochester researchers hope to explain how the fields occur in plasma instabilities