
Senior engineering students show their work
The University of Rochester’s Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences hosted its annual Senior Design Day for teams of graduating students to showcase their capstone projects.

‘Fantastic’ Rochester undergraduate research highlighted at annual expo
The 2022 Undergraduate Research Exposition featured a range of projects—from a sepsis diagnostic device to an examination of life in a prison town—by more than 100 students.

Rochester’s Grand Challenges Scholars frame their research in a broad context
Now in its fifth year, the program adds entrepreneurship, global experience, interdisciplinary study, and service to students “solution-oriented” tool kit.

Smart acoustic devices: coming soon to a screen near you?
A Rochester team that includes Ben Kevelson ’22 is using flat panel technology to build a more cost-effective smart device that can also function as a touch interface.

ApiJect gives students a chance to address a global health care challenge
The medical technology company will support student design teams and a University-wide medical device design challenge.

Why this Rochester math professor champions year-round undergraduate research
Alex Iosevich, a professor of mathematics and director of the Tripods REU and STEM for ALL programs at the Goergen Institute for Data Science, seeks to make undergraduate research “a fundamental part of the curriculum.”

Undergraduate finds room to explore business, computer science, and an American music icon
Rochester’s flexible curriculum gives Jacob Rose ’24 a chance to research Leonard Bernstein.

Rochester students’ award-winning device instantly detects sepsis via sweat
Rochester undergraduates have developed a fast, noninvasive, affordable, and eco-friendly way to diagnose the life-threatening medical complication.

Approach predicts novel ‘protein partners’ that could contribute to COVID-19 symptoms
Rochester biologists propose that disrupted interactions between the proteins that closely evolve with the ACE2 receptor may play a role in COVID-19 complications.

Undergraduate scholars take a virtual stage to share findings
Held online for the second year in a row, the annual Undergraduate Research Expo celebrates ‘an important part’ of University of Rochester culture.