Science & Technology How does the atmosphere affect ocean weather? January 31, 2025 A new Rochester study upends previous assumptions about how surface winds and ocean weather patterns interact.
Science & Technology Scientists uncover link between the ocean’s weather and global climate December 20, 2023 Using mechanical rather than statistical analysis, an international team of scientists offers a new framework for understanding the climate system.
Science & Technology How do magnetic fields affect star formation and high-energy-density lab experiments? September 19, 2022 Rochester researchers hope to explain how the fields occur in plasma instabilities
Science & Technology Rochester researchers go ‘outside the box’ to delineate major ocean currents September 15, 2022 For the first time, University researchers have quantified the energy of ocean currents larger than 1,000 kilometers.
Science & Technology New tool cuts guesswork about ‘eddy killing’ in oceans August 19, 2021 Using satellite imagery, University of Rochester scientists have provided the first direct measure of how eddy killing affects Earth’s oceans.
Science & Technology Rochester leads effort to understand matter at atom-crushing pressures August 10, 2020 The University is the host institution for a NSF-funded national collaboration to explore ‘revolutionary states of matter.’
University News Two faculty recognized by DOE as exceptional researchers August 12, 2019 Two University of Rochester faculty members–Hussein Aluie and Ellen Matson–have been named recipients of Early Career Research awards from the Department of Energy.
Science & Technology Finding order in the chaos of turbulence June 26, 2019 A new set of conservation laws developed by Rochester researchers are unique to the turbulent flows within magnetic fields, and could help explain the evolution of stars and galaxies.
University News Promising young faculty recognized in Arts, Sciences & Engineering September 5, 2017 Four faculty members have been chosen as this year's Wilmot Assistant Professors. The two-year awards recognize "some of the most promising young men and women in the early stages of their academic careers."
Science & Technology Aluie awarded hours on supercomputer at Argonne January 23, 2017 Most academic grants come with money, but Hussein Aluie has received a research boost that money can’t buy. The assistant professor of mechanical engineering has been awarded access to the supercomputer Mira, which will allow his team to do in four days what it would take a desktop computer more than 2,000 years to complete.