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boy in wheelchair plays with adapted bubble blowing toy with help from his mother
Campus Life
January 9, 2018 | 08:43 am

Adapted toys a godsend for parents and their children with special needs

Toys that beep. Toys that light up and sing. All adapted by engineering students for children with special needs. For parents visiting the University of Rochester Medical Center, taking home a toy their child can play with themselves is “really awesome.”

topics: community, disabilities, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Medical Center,
negative mass particles created in an illustration using two mirrors and an optical microcavity
Science & Technology
January 3, 2018 | 03:22 pm

Creating negative mass particles—and a novel way to generate lasers

Rochester researchers have created particles with negative mass in an atomically thin semiconductor, using a device that creates an optical microcavity.

topics: featured-post-side, Institute of Optics, Materials Science Program, Nick Vamivakas, photonics, quantum science, research finding, URnano,
two portraits side by side
University News
December 28, 2017 | 09:28 am

Humboldt Research Awards support professors’ collaborations in Germany

Two University faculty members—William Jones of the Department of Chemistry and Xi-Cheng Zhang of the Institute of Optics—have received prestigious Humboldt Research Awards.

topics: Department of Chemistry, Germany, global engagement, Humboldt Research Awards, Institute of Optics, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences, William Jones, Xi-Cheng Zhang,
two people sitting behind a computer screen with an image from a simulation on it
Science & Technology
December 28, 2017 | 09:12 am

Supercomputer aids Rochester’s quest for inertial confinement fusion

Hussein Aluie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded an additional 90 million hours of computer time in 2018 by the US Department of Energy to produce detailed simulations of fluid instabilities that hinder fusion “ignition.”

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, nuclear fusion, research funding,
woman holds a toy up to her ear and smiles
Campus Life
December 21, 2017 | 01:32 pm

Engineering students give special needs children the gift of play

The Toys for All Tots student organization hosts workshops to teach other students and community members how to adapt battery-powered toys so that children with limited mobility can activate them on their own.

topics: community, disabilities, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Wyatt Tenhaeff and Brian Shen in the lab
Science & Technology
December 21, 2017 | 09:53 am

Wyatt Tenhaeff shares ‘Oscar of Invention’ for safer electric car battery

A safer lithium-ion battery that reduces the risk of fire in electric vehicles, developed by a University chemical engineer and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named one of R&D Magazine’s 100 inventions of the year.

topics: awards, Department of Chemical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyatt Tenhaeff,
student working on a painting
University News
December 18, 2017 | 12:10 pm

Engineering students recognized for excelling in humanities

Astra Zhang ’18, a double major in electrical and computer engineering and in studio arts, and Ivan Suminski ’18, a mechanical engineering major who is earning a dual degree in violin performance will share this year’s Wells Award.

topics: awards, Department of Art and Art History, Eastman School of Music, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
speaker in front of a presentation slide that says DATA FOR GOOD
Science & Technology
December 14, 2017 | 03:43 pm

Goergen Institute Distinguished Speaker urges ‘data for good’

Many people think of data science in terms of analysis of datasets. But as Columbia University’s Jeannette Wing stressed to an audience at the Goergen Institute for Data Science recently, data science entails a lot more than that.

topics: events, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence,
Wayne Knox wearing goggles in his optics lab
University News
December 12, 2017 | 01:46 pm

Knox elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors

As a teenager, Wayne Knox ’79, ’84 (PhD) “sometimes filled the house with smoke” while building short wave radios and other electronic gadgets from scratch. Now the optics professor is among this year’s NAI fellows.

topics: awards, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, Materials Science Program, Wayne Knox,
vials in a rainbow of colors
Science & Technology
December 12, 2017 | 12:07 pm

Chemists go ‘back to the future’ to untangle quantum dot mystery

For more than 30 years, researchers have been creating quantum dots—nanoscale semiconductors with remarkable properties. But quantum dot synthesis has occurred largely by trial and error. Thanks to the work of two Rochester chemists, that may be about to change.

topics: Department of Chemistry, featured-post-side, Materials Science Program, quantum science, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Todd Krauss,