
Awards and honors highlight Rochester faculty’s professional accomplishments
Optica, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gruber Foundation, and other organizations are among those bestowing recent honors on Rochester faculty.

‘Communicating Your Professional Identity’ flourishes at 10
“It brings together writing pedagogy, career and life design, and campus stakeholders,” says lead instructor Laura Jones.

How will AI chatbots like ChatGPT affect higher education?
University administrators and faculty weigh in on the pros and cons of the newest online learning tool.

Tapered optical fiber addresses challenge posed by Brillouin scattering
Rochester researchers achieve strong optical-acoustic interactions with long-lived acoustic waves.

Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient
By harnessing the power of metals, Rochester researchers are making the material an ever more viable replacement for silicon in solar cells and detectors.

Lab experience your first year in college? Yes.
With faculty and graduate student mentorship, undergraduate researchers thrive in the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction lab.

A simpler, single-minded computer to solve complex problems
Rochester engineers develop novel Ising machines with federal research and development funding support from DARPA.

The ethics of dark tourism
Julia Granato crisscrossed Europe to study human bone collection and display sites. Now she’s pondering what it means to display and visit human remains.

Recent national awards and accolades distinguish Rochester faculty
Faculty have received honors from professional organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Modern Language Association, and the National Academy of Inventors.

Viscosity presents a sticky plasma problem for fusion, high-energy-density experiments
University of Rochester scientists set out to explain how—and how much—in order to improve future experiments.