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screenshot showing many red lines criss-crossing Fauver Stadium
Science & Technology
February 27, 2017 | 02:15 pm

GPS sensors give women’s soccer team analytic edge

Kim Stagg ’17 covers a lot of ground during each soccer team practice and game. Thanks to an innovative data science program, she and her coaches now know just how much. In fact, she left cleat marks on more than 90% of Fauver Stadium during last season’s closer against Emory. Stagg and her teammates wear GPS devices that track movement, heart rate, and exertion levels, helping her coaches know how much recovery time she might need to avoid injury.

topics: athletics, big-data-2017, data science,
cutouts of tweets floating above a view of New York City
Science & Technology
February 21, 2017 | 12:10 pm

Millions of tweets are a gold mine for data mining

Researchers can track the flu, consumer preferences, and movie box office sales, all from the millions of tweets posted every day.

topics: big-data-2017, data science, Department of Computer Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Henry Kautz, Jiebo Luo, Simon Business School,
illustration of two people on a date, with at-symbols instead of faces
Science & Technology
February 12, 2017 | 11:33 am

Online dating brings matches, but it isn’t scientific

Online dating is second only to “meeting through friends” as the most popular form of matchmaking, and Rochester psychologist Harry Reis has been investigating the phenomenon as the stigma has lifted.

topics: Department of Psychology, Harry Reis, relationships, Rochester Review, School of Arts and Sciences,
gas hydrate on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico
Science & Technology
February 8, 2017 | 04:05 pm

Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release

A recent interpretive review of scientific literature performed by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey and here at Rochester pays particular attention to gas hydrates beneath the Arctic Ocean.

topics: climate change, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences,
illustration of a bacterium
Science & Technology
February 3, 2017 | 04:45 pm

Building a better microbial fuel cell—using paper

In a fuel cell that relies on bacteria found in wastewater, Rochester researchers have developed an electrode using a common household material: paper.

topics: Department of Chemistry, featured-post-side, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
animated illustration of circular waves collapsing into a needle-thin beam
Science & Technology
January 24, 2017 | 11:03 am

New ‘needle pulse’ beam pattern packs a punch

An “analytically beautiful mathematical solution” could bring unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images, burn precise holes in manufactured materials at a nano scale—even etch new properties onto their surfaces.

topics: featured-post, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, Kevin Parker, research finding,
large supercomputer with word MIRA written on front
Science & Technology
January 23, 2017 | 04:04 pm

Aluie awarded hours on supercomputer at Argonne

Most academic grants come with money, but Hussein Aluie has received a research boost that money can’t buy. The assistant professor of mechanical engineering has been awarded access to the supercomputer Mira, which will allow his team to do in four days what it would take a desktop computer more than 2,000 years to complete.

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Hussein Aluie, research funding,
images showing an array of colored dots
Science & Technology
January 16, 2017 | 09:55 am

What humans and primates both know when it comes to numbers

University researchers show that primates — like humans — have the ability to distinguish between large and small quantities of objects, irrespective of the surface area those objects occupy.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, featured-post-side, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,