Luke Auburn

Director of Communications, Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

luke.auburn@rochester.edu

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From the Magazine

Breathing life-saving services into rural communities

September 17, 2025

Professor Benjamín Castañeda ’09 (PhD) leads a global effort to meet critical needs for medical technology.

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Campus & Community

URochester engineers serve the community through design capstone projects

August 21, 2025

Rochester seniors and master’s students provide businesses and nonprofits solutions to real-world problems.

Chunlei Guo hovering over a simulator to test sunlight absorption of a solar thermoelectric generator device he holds.

Science & Technology

Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation

August 12, 2025

Researchers improved solar power technology by engineering a solar thermoelectric generator 15 times more efficient than current state-of-the-art devices.

Two people in a green wheat field with a drone flying nearby overhead.

Science & Technology

How brain-inspired analog systems could make drones more efficient

Electrical and computer engineers want to mimic the brain’s visual system to create AI tools for guiding autonomous systems.

Asian senior women working with laptop computer and using smart speakers while setting in living room at home.

Health & Medicine

Can Amazon Alexa or Google Home help detect Parkinson’s?

A quick, speech-based AI tool offers a new way to screen for a key indicator of the neurodegenerative disease.

Close-up of a blue-gloved finger holding an intraocular lens.

Science & Technology

What are intraocular lenses? And how can they restore sight for patients with cataracts?

New technology is quickly improving the world’s most common form of eye surgery.

Graphic that shows a photo of Sarah Bjornland alongside the University of Rochester "spirit R" and text that reads "Alumni Connections: Sarah Bjornland '17, optics."

Campus & Community

Sarah Bjornland ’17: Embracing her management superpowers

Meaningful connections with faculty and industry experts helped the Rochester graduate find her niche in the field of optics.

Close up of fiber optics cables lit up with a woman out of focusing behind them looking at the cables.

Science & Technology

The surprising way that fiber optics connects us

An optics expert explains how thin strands of glass that transmit light make modern telecommunications possible.

computer illustration of a group of connected atoms.

Science & Technology

New method to study catalysts could lead to better batteries

A new algorithm opens the door for using artificial intelligence and machine learning to study the interactions that happen on the surface of materials.

Close-up of a chip-scale laser held in front of a penny, highlighting its miniature size and intricate gold circuitry.

Science & Technology

New laser smaller than a penny can measure objects at ultrafast rates

The chip-scale laser has applications ranging from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves.

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Campus & Community

New scholars program is a catalyst for undergraduate research on chemical sustainability

The inaugural cohort of Barbara J. Burger Chemical Sustainability Scholars embarks on 15-month paid research experiences.

Close-up of the technology that makes the Rochester Quantum Network possible.

Science & Technology

University of Rochester and RIT develop experimental quantum communications network

The Rochester Quantum Network uses single photons to transmit information over dual fiber-optic telecommunications lines.