Health & Medicine
A new way to prepare doctors for difficult conversations
July 10, 2026
URochester researchers have developed SOPHIE, a virtual ‘patient’ that trains doctors to communicate better.
Author Posts Loop
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Campus & Community
These students thrive where STEM, humanities intersect
October 13, 2022
The Wells Award recognizes engineering students who excel in humanistic disciplines.
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).