Campus & Community Optics grad has her eyes on the stars May 6, 2021 Optical engineer Alyssa Ho ’21 is headed to Raytheon to work on space system projects.
University News Rochester’s latest CAREER award recipients pursue wide range of projects May 5, 2021 University of Rochester researchers have received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty.
Science & Technology A new way to make AR/VR glasses look more like regular glasses April 30, 2021 Rochester researchers are combining freeform optics and a metasurface to avoid ‘bug eyes’ in AR/VR glasses and headsets.
Campus & Community Students earn national award for conflict resolution project April 23, 2021 Mohammed Bah ’23 and Miguel Yakouma ’23 have received a Davis Projects for Peace grant to run a program in Central African Republic aimed at diffusing a religious civil war.
Campus & Community Undergraduate scholars take a virtual stage to share findings April 19, 2021 Held online for the second year in a row, the annual Undergraduate Research Expo celebrates ‘an important part’ of University of Rochester culture.
Science & Technology Apt analogies help veteran convey his HIV research April 16, 2021 ‘Three Minute Thesis’ Competition winner Jeffrey Beard demonstrates how to communicate science to the public.
Health & Medicine First-ever lab model of human eye offers hope for macular degeneration patients March 29, 2021 Rochester researchers' breakthrough could lead to patient-specific treatments for age-related macular degeneration, which leads to a loss of central vision.
Science & Technology Rochester to advance research in biological imaging through new grant February 22, 2021 A multidisciplinary collaboration will create a new light-sheet microscope on campus, allowing 3D imaging of complex cellular structures.
Science & Technology An optical coating like no other February 4, 2021 Researchers in the Institute of Optics have developed a new class of optical coatings, Fano Resonance Optical Coatings, that can both reflect and transmit the same wavelength simultaneously.
Science & Technology New research on carbon cracks open secrets deep inside exoplanets January 27, 2021 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.