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University News
February 15, 2018 | 10:38 am

Q&A: Jane Marie Souza on shepherding programs that span the University

As associate provost for academic administration, Souza provides academic guidance and support to all schools across the University, ensuring programs meet educational standards. One new project is a pilot program to offer students an “outcomes transcript” which would help centralize transcripts from multiple schools or departments.

topics: interdisciplinary, Jane Marie Souza, provost,
Richard Thaler
Society & Culture
February 14, 2018 | 04:11 pm

A conversation with Rochester’s latest Nobel Prize winner

Recognized by the Nobel committee for his contributions to behavioral economics—a field that he helped create—Thaler’s research bridges the gap between economics and psychology.

topics: Department of Economics, interdisciplinary, Nobel Prize, Richard Thaler, School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences,
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Science & Technology
February 13, 2018 | 02:24 pm

Giving virtual reality a ‘visceral’ sound

Using recital halls as their “labs,” and recording some of the best music students in the world, University researchers are creating virtual reality videos of concerts that literally immerse viewers “within” the performance onstage.

topics: Audio and Music Engineering, augmented reality, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Eastman School of Music, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Matthew Brown, Ming-Lun Lee, virtual reality, Zhiyao Duan,
lighted glass table covered in coffee mugs
Science & Technology
February 13, 2018 | 01:45 pm

Augmented reality lets students operate a chemical plant

Coffee mugs and popsicle sticks are transformed into chemical reactors as part of an innovative teaching experiment that allows student engineers to simulate reactions in a real-life, sprawling chemical plant.

topics: Andrew White, April Luehmann, augmented reality, Brendan Mort, Center for Integrated Computing, Department of Chemical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, virtual reality, Warner School of Education,
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Science & Technology
February 13, 2018 | 01:13 pm

Virtual reality app offers personalized psychotherapy

A multidisciplinary team of University doctors, engineers, and musicians is working together to create an immersive, customized experience that brings cognitive-behavioral therapy to a patient’s smartphone.

topics: augmented reality, data science, Department of Psychiatry, Eastman School of Music, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Jiebo Luo, Matthew Brown, mental health, Michael Hasselberg, mobile app, virtual reality,
woman wearing virtual reality goggles in front of a computer screen showing an image of a brain
Science & Technology
February 13, 2018 | 12:40 pm

Training brains—young and old, sick and healthy—with virtual reality

Rochester researchers are using virtual reality-based brain training to better understand the brain’s plasticity in athletes who have experienced concussions and older adults with mild cognitive impairments. The goal? Improved therapeutic treatments patients can do at home.

topics: augmented reality, brain injury, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Emergency Medicine, Duje Tadin, featured-post-side, Feng (Vankee) Lin, interdisciplinary, Jeffrey Bazarian, reality, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Nursing, video games, virtual reality,
two researchers looking at a laptop and smiling
Science & Technology
February 6, 2018 | 04:04 pm

Building the right mobile app for caregivers of children with FASD

A researcher and a computer engineer team up to build a mobile app that is already starting to help parents and caregivers facing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

topics: Christie Petrenko, Cristiano Tapparello, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Mt. Hope Family Center, research funding,
young man in a tuxedo plays the violin in a mechanical engineering lab
Campus Life
February 2, 2018 | 08:53 am

On stage, in the lab

Thanks to the Dual Degree Program with the University’s Eastman School of Music, Ivan Suminski ’18, ’18E finds himself in an enviable dilemma. Should he apply to graduate school to continue his violin studies? Or to research the biophysics of the inner ear?

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eastman School of Music, featured-post, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary,
Juliana Conley
Campus Life
January 25, 2018 | 11:26 am

Setback helped sharpen student’s focus on what matters most

Juliana Conley ’21 is using her experiences from a series of life detours to guide her academic goal: modeling wildfires and other environmental phenomena associated with climate change, via an interdisciplinary degree in geomechanics.

topics: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, interdisciplinary,
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Science & Technology
January 18, 2018 | 03:29 pm

Rochester team casts light on a hidden problem in domestic violence cases

While existing technology for detecting bruises works well for light-skinned victims, it’s less effective for people of color. An interdisciplinary team at the University of Rochester has set out to change that.

topics: Andrew Berger, Catherine Cerulli, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, diversity, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, interdisciplinary, James Zavislan, John Cullen, research funding, Susan B. Anthony Center,