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swirls of color

Campus & Community

Art of Science competition attracts record number of entries. Here are this year’s winners.

The annual event encourages University community members to explore the intersection of science, art, and technology.

Yohay Wakabayashi in khakis and suit jacket standing in busy Tokyo plaza.

From the Magazine

Show us your town: Tokyo

Entrepreneur Yohay Wakabayashi ’10, ’11S (MS) shares some of his favorite things to do in one of the world's top destinations for culture and cuisine.

student emerges from rotating cylinder as part of a fun house

Campus & Community

April 2024 in Photos

From totality to Springfest and everything in between, here’s how we spent April at the University of Rochester.

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 accomplishments of Rochester’s faculty

University of Rochester faculty regularly earn accolades for their contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.

Close-up of a Native American art replica Mimbres bowl featuring a geometric figure holding a fish aloft.

Society & Culture

That’s not Native American art. Or is it?

A Rochester art historian on the proliferation of indigenous fakes and replicas—and the blurry line between appropriation and admiration.

Close up of a woman's eyes and mid-face looking off camera to illustrate why eye blinking is important in humans.

Science & Technology

Why do we blink so much?

Researchers find that blinking plays a pivotal role in processing visual information—adding to a growing body of evidence revising our conventional views of vision.

Triptych featuring Gilbert (Rip) Collins, Douglas Portman, and Michael Welte.

Health & Medicine

Three Rochester faculty join ranks of AAAS fellows

This is the first time since 2009 that three University faculty members have been elected in one year.

Close-up of a Black person's eye with a multicolored light falling on it to illustrate how retinal ganglion cells function.

Health & Medicine

Are these newly found rare cells a missing link in color perception?

Rochester researchers harnessed adaptive optics to gain insight into the complex workings of the retina and its role in processing color.

Rachel Whitmoeyer in an ETM uniform looking over her shoulder into the back of an ambulance.

Campus & Community

Exploring the ethical dilemmas of emergency care on the front lines

Rachel Whitmoyer ’24, a double major in physics and philosophy, brings her work as an emergency medical technician to bear on her studies at Rochester.

Side view of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, used to detect dark energy and map the expanding universe, atop a large telescope.

Science & Technology

DESI first-year data delivers unprecedented measurements of expanding universe

Scientists have analyzed the first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark energy.