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Campus & Community

July and August 2024 in Photos

August 29, 2024

Summer saw no time for rest at the University of Rochester—and we quite like it that way. Take a look at how we spent July and August.

University of Rochester students celebrate, cheer, and throw confetti into the night sky with Rush Rhees Library lit up in the background.

Campus & Community

Boundless beginnings: Welcoming our newest Yellowjackets to Rochester

August 25, 2024

More than 1,400 first-year and transfer students joined the Yellowjacket family ahead of the new academic year.

White text reads "Faculty Awards" against a blue-colored background image of architectural detail featuring an ironwork owl and vines.

Health & Medicine

Recent awards showcase accomplishments of Rochester faculty

August 22, 2024

Faculty members are being recognized for contributions to their respective fields.

Ting Du, wearing a white lab coat, sits at a desk and points to a computer screen showing yellow fluid as Doug Kelley looks over her shoulder.

Science & Technology

Cleaning up the aging brain

August 15, 2024

Rochester scientists are restoring the brain’s trash disposal system with a drug currently used to induce labor.

Wegmans Hall, a modern four-story brick building with large glass windows, lit from inside, at dusk. A well-maintained lawn with a walkway is in the foreground, and the University of Rochester Library is visible in the background.

From the Magazine

Bit by megabit: 50 years of computer science at URochester

The Department of Computer Science at Rochester marks 50 years of revolutionary progress.

Night-time view of large multicolored sphere in center of Las Vegas downtown with fireworks in background.

From the Magazine

Reengineering the concert experience

Stu Elby ’82 helps make Sphere a revolutionary entertainment venue.

From the Magazine

Doctors, patients, algorithms, and avatars

Clinicians, computer scientists, and ethicists are working across the University to incorporate reliable and ethical AI into medical diagnosis and treatment.

AI-generated image of two Reddit mascots, one red, one blue, arguing about artificial intelligence.

Science & Technology

Who is more polarized about AI—the tech community or the general public?

An analysis of nearly 34,000 comments on Reddit provides new insights about perceptions of AI after ChatGPT’s launch.

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Health & Medicine

Rochester faculty appointed to named professorships

Named professorships are part of a long-standing tradition to celebrate Rochester’s faculty as researchers, scholars, and teachers.

Three people wearing protective eye gear in a lab demonstrate heat transfer mapping techniques that are displayed on a computer screen.

Science & Technology

New technique pinpoints nanoscale ‘hot spots’ in electronics to improve their longevity

Rochester engineers have developed a way to spot tiny, overheated components that cause electronics’ performance to degrade.