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January 3, 2013 | 03:16 pm

Your Brain on Big Bird

Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children’s brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.

topics: brain, child development, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Jessica Cantlon, research finding,
John Covach
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December 17, 2012 | 02:05 pm

Everybody Talkin’ ‘Bout Pop Music

From rock ‘n’ roll to pop and hip hop, popular music may be, well, popular. But it is rarely understood as a musical form. Now that’s about to change. The new Institute for Popular Music, led by founding director John Covach, will treat the study of popular genres as seriously as classical music.

diagram showing wireless communication process through neutrinos
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December 14, 2012 | 02:10 pm

Top 10 Physics Breakthrough of 2012

Rochester researchers are part of a collaboration named in Physics World magazine’s list of top 10 breakthroughs for 2012. The group was chosen for being the first to demonstrate communications using neutrinos – nearly massless particles that travel at almost the speed of light.

young women in front of White House
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December 6, 2012 | 02:26 pm

Vocal Point Serenades White House

Eleven undergraduate members of the University of Rochester’s all-female a cappella group Vocal Point have been invited to the White House to perform classic and contemporary holiday songs on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 8.

MATLAB graph showing waveform and mood chart
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December 4, 2012 | 01:43 pm

Smartphones: the New Mood Ring?

If you think having your phone identify the nearest bus stop is cool, wait until it identifies your mood. Rochester engineers are developing a new computer program that gauges human feelings through speech, with substantially greater accuracy than existing approaches.

topics: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, emotions, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, mobile app, research finding, sound, Wendi Heinzelman,
blind mole rat
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November 30, 2012 | 01:44 pm

3-MINUTE CLASSROOM: Cure for Cancer in Mole Rats?

Blind mole rats and naked mole rats—both subterranean rodents with long life spans—are the only mammals never known to develop cancer. Biology professors Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov have discovered the separate mechanisms that cause these two species to be cancer-free, and those discoveries could lead to new cancer therapies in humans.

Nancy Foster
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November 29, 2012 | 05:07 pm

An Anthropologist in the Library

In honor of her innovative methods and influence, Nancy Fried Foster will receive the Martin E. Messinger Libraries Recognition Award for 2012.

topics: Center for Jewish Studies,
Featured
November 15, 2012 | 09:28 pm

Dark Matter Detector Installed Underwater, Underground

An experiment to look for one of nature’s most elusive subatomic particles is underway in a stainless steel tank nearly a mile underground beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota. And among the dozens of scientists involved in the research is physics Professor Frank Wolfs.

topics: announcements, dark matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Frank Wolfs, quantum science, School of Arts and Sciences,
meteorite
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November 15, 2012 | 08:36 pm

“Space Gems” Share a Dramatic Origin Story

These meteorites, or pallasites, were likely formed when a smaller asteroid crashed into a planet-like body about 30 times smaller than earth.

topics: asteroids, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, John Tarduno, magnetism, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,