Rochester engineers serve the community through design capstone projects
Rochester seniors and master’s students provide businesses and nonprofits solutions to real-world problems.
Do neurons transmit light?
Rochester researchers aim to determine if neurons can transport light like fiber-optic communications channels.
Breathing life-saving services into rural communities
Professor Benjamín Castañeda ’09 (PhD) leads a global effort to meet critical needs for medical technology.
Twisting atomically thin materials could advance quantum computers
Placing two layers of special 2D materials together and turning them at large angles creates artificial atoms with intriguing optical properties.
The magnificent Mickey7
Alumnus Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel Mickey7 gets a Hollywood glow up with Bong Joon-ho’s film Mickey 17.
New technology could quash QR code phishing attacks
The improved QR code format would let smartphone users know if they’re heading to a secure website—or wading into a potential ‘quishing’ scam.
How does the atmosphere affect ocean weather?
A new Rochester study upends previous assumptions about how surface winds and ocean weather patterns interact.
Amanda Stent ’01: Guiding the future of AI in industry and academia
The Head of AI Strategy & Research in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg reflects on the state of artificial intelligence.
Three Rochester faculty members receive nation’s highest honor for early-career investigators
Ehsan Hoque, William Renninger, and Petros Tzeferacos have been named Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipients.
How does the brain cut through noise to understand speech?
Rochester researchers investigate how visual cues enhance the brain’s ability to understand speech in noisy environments.