Please consider downloading the latest version of Internet Explorer
to experience this site as intended.

Bob Marcotte

rss feed

Bob Marcotte's Latest Posts

Viable superconducting material created in Rochester lab

Viable superconducting material created in Rochester lab

March 8, 2023

Rochester researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pressure low enough for practical applications.

Continue Reading

‘Communicating Your Professional Identity’ flourishes at 10

‘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.

Continue Reading

Tapered optical fiber addresses challenge posed by Brillouin scattering

Tapered optical fiber addresses challenge posed by Brillouin scattering

February 17, 2023

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

Continue Reading

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

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.

Continue Reading

Lab experience your first year in college? Yes.

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.

Continue Reading

A simpler, single-minded computer to solve complex problems

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.

Continue Reading

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

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.

Continue Reading

New award sends humanities graduate students abroad

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.

Continue Reading

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

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.

Continue Reading

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

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.

Continue Reading