Tag: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent graduate awarded global leadership scholarship at Stanford University
Suman Kumar ’19 will pursue a master’s degree in international policy, joining students from across the globe for the selective program.
‘I am ready to be many things’
As he prepares for graduation, Beirut native Marc Haddad ’21 says he’s had “some of the best experiences of my life” at Rochester.
Rochester’s latest CAREER award recipients pursue wide range of projects
This year, five University of Rochester researchers have received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty.
Room temperature superconductor? Rochester lab sets new record toward long-sought goal
In a pair of studies, University physical scientists synthesized new superconducting materials, developing processes that may help ‘open the door to many potential applications.’
New research on carbon cracks open secrets deep inside exoplanets
Measuring carbon at the highest pressures ever achieved in a laboratory, researchers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics report first model of the carbon structures that may make up planets outside the solar system.
An adapted classroom: Students and faculty find new ways to engage in teaching and learning
Students and faculty members adapt to new—and safety-conscious—ways of interacting as teachers, scholars, and researchers.
Experiments replicate high densities in ‘white dwarf’ star remnants
Rochester researchers help lead work to simulate pressures of white dwarf stars, work that may offer ideas for creating new materials on Earth.
Rochester leads effort to understand matter at atom-crushing pressures
The University is the host institution for a NSF-funded national collaboration to explore ‘revolutionary states of matter.’
New data about asteroid surfaces will help explorers touchdown safely
Using sand, marbles, and mathematical modeling, Rochester researchers from across departments worked to improve the accuracy of data collected from the surfaces of asteroids.
Two LLE scientists awarded DOE funding for fusion research
Two awards from the Department of Energy will help Rochester scientists work to develop timely, commercially viable fusion energy.