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Cicchetti is widely recognized for his research with high-risk and disenfranchised populations, including children from families struggling with abuse and depression.

DNA analysis and pathogen testing relies on filtration. These new membrane filters will be about 1,000 times thinner than the sponge-like filters used now, lending themselves to yet smaller, portable instrumentation for use in the field.

Work by a group of graduate students and chemistry professors is advancing what is sometimes considered the “holy grail” of energy science: lowering the cost while increasing the output of sunlight-powered hydrogen-production systems. The solution: nanocrystals and nickel catalysts.

Blind mole rats and naked mole rats—both subterranean rodents with long life spans—are the only mammals never known to develop cancer. Rochester biologists have now determined that the mechanism for fighting off cancer differs between the two.

Rochester received its first-ever berth into the NCAA Division III field hockey playoffs and will host a first round game on Wednesday. The Yellowjackets will face Rowan University of the New Jersey State Athletic Conference.

Wartime drama, romantic comedy, and haunting animation are all part of the line up for this year’s Rochester Polish Film Festival at the Little Theatre from November 14-19.

Theodore Brown, a historian of medicine, public health, and health policy at the University of Rochester, provides the historical context for each cartoon and authored introductory chapters on early health care reform efforts.

Many changes to language are simply the brain’s way of ensuring that communication is as precise and concise as possible.

When the University of Rochester’s Gay Liberation Front launched the Empty Closet in 1971, they knew that distributing a newspaper advocating “the freedom to love” same-sex partners was a radical act.