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looping video of glacier ice melting and dripping.

Society & Culture

On thinning ice

September 11, 2024

A pair of Rochester historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.

Aerial view of the River Campus and Medical Center Campus that has been posterized to illustrate campus master planning.

University News

University of Rochester kicks off master planning process

Faculty, staff, and students help to inform the University’s physical future.

Exterior of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics building expansion against a blue sky.

University News

Laboratory for Laser Energetics opens doors on pivotal building expansion

The first major addition to LLE in more than two decades includes clean room facilities to advance next-generation laser science and technologies.

student emerges from rotating cylinder as part of a fun house

April 2024 in Photos

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

Close-up of fingers covered in tiny shards of microplastics.

Health & Medicine

Research hub aims to unravel health effects of microplastic pollution

The Rochester-based center will let researchers to investigate the interactions between plastic pollution, the Great Lakes environment, and human health.

Andrea Tompkins Wright portrait.

University News

University names first associate vice president for real estate, portfolio management, and planning

The new position will lead the real estate strategy for the University of Rochester’s on- and off-campus spaces.

Science & Technology

New federal funding approved for Laboratory for Laser Energetics’ Omega Facility

The funding enables LLE’s national security efforts in inertial confinement fusion, high-energy-density physics research, and laser technology development.

Pipette releasing a water droplet atop carbon paper to illustrate the remediation of pfas forever chemicals.

Science & Technology

Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ removed from water with new electrocatalysis method

A novel approach using laser-made nanomaterials made from nonprecious metals could lay the foundation for globally scalable remediation techniques.

The sun seen in space with plasma oscillations occurring on the surface.

Science & Technology

Plasma oscillations propel breakthroughs in fusion energy

Rochester researchers have discovered a new class of plasma oscillations, paving the way for improved particle accelerators and commercial fusion energy.

Four tubes, each a different color, containing hydrogels frozen in liquid nitrogen and obtained via 3d bioprinting.

Science & Technology

Printing plant-based pharmaceuticals—without plants

February 5, 2024

Rochester undergraduates developed a 3D-printing system to replicate chemicals found in plants, including those endangered by climate change.