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Campus & Community

Undergraduate student submissions sweep Art of Science awards

The annual competition highlights the intersection of science, art, and technology as part of the Rochester experience.

Four vertical environmental photos of Anne S. Meyer, Todd Krauss, Kara Bren, and Andrew White.

Science & Technology

Unlocking the power of photosynthesis for clean energy production

A new grant will allow Rochester researchers to leverage bacteria and nanomaterials to mimic photosynthesis and produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel.

Technician performing breast ultrasound on woman, demonstrating improved methods of breast cancer diagnosis.

Health & Medicine

Better breast cancer diagnosis through machine-learning ultrasound

Early results in a study by faculty at the Medical Center and the Hajim School show 98 percent accuracy in predicting malignant tissue.

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

Health & Medicine

Professional organizations bestow honors on Rochester faculty

The recognitions highlight faculty contributions to imaging science, oral health, community building, toxicology, and more.

Becker, smiling and gliding across ice rink in Sabres uniform, mounted on hockey sled.

Campus & Community

Sam Becker ’25 reaches a sled hockey milestone

The optics major, a bone cancer survivor, is a member of the Buffalo Sabres and the US Men’s Development sled hockey teams.

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

Health & Medicine

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.

Six names tag stickers that ID different professional identity types, including student, engineer, manager, lecturer, writer researcher.

Campus & Community

‘Communicating Your Professional Identity’ flourishes at 10

February 28, 2023

“It brings together writing pedagogy, career and life design, and campus stakeholders,” says lead instructor Laura Jones.

Two blue- and yellow-colored robots work at a laptop to illustrate the concept of ai chatbots like chatgpt affecting higher education.

Campus & Community

How will AI chatbots like ChatGPT affect higher education?

February 27, 2023

University administrators and faculty weigh in on the pros and cons of the newest online learning tool.

Optics students wearing masks in a lab.

Science & Technology

Tapered optical fiber addresses challenge posed by Brillouin scattering

February 17, 2023

Rochester researchers achieve strong optical-acoustic interactions with long-lived acoustic waves.

Close-up of a perovskite crystalline stone against a white background. Perovskites show great potential as light absorbing material.

Science & Technology

Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient

February 16, 2023

By harnessing the power of metals, Rochester researchers are making the material an ever more viable replacement for silicon in solar cells and detectors.