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Screenshot of three people in protective gear and a robot on a replica lunar surface.

Performance under pressure at NASA’s Lunabotics competition

Rochester undergraduate students banded together to overcome multiple crises while fielding their robot on a simulated lunar surface at Kennedy Space Center.

College student touches up with paint a 9-foot-long jaekelopterus model.

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.

Three undergraduate students in masks near a research poster presentation and demo.

‘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.

student seen from behind in a lab uses a pipette to add material to a petri dish.

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.

College student in mask adjusts dials as part of a research project using flat panel technology.

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.

close-up of hand holding a small syringe.

ApiJect gives students a chance to address a global health care challenge

February 3, 2022

The medical technology company will support student design teams and a University-wide medical device design challenge.

Professor and student standing in front of smart board with equations.

Why this Rochester math professor champions year-round undergraduate research

January 20, 2022

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.”

student plays a piano in front of a large windo

Undergraduate finds room to explore business, computer science, and an American music icon

December 16, 2021

Rochester’s flexible curriculum gives Jacob Rose ’24 a chance to research Leonard Bernstein.

Student's hand holds part of an innovative sepsis diagnosis device.

Science & Technology

Rochester students’ award-winning device instantly detects sepsis via sweat

December 1, 2021

Rochester undergraduates have developed a fast, noninvasive, affordable, and eco-friendly way to diagnose the life-threatening medical complication.

Blue ACE2 receptor bound to a red coronavirus spike protein.

Science & Technology

Approach predicts novel ‘protein partners’ that could contribute to COVID-19 symptoms

September 16, 2021

Rochester biologists propose that disrupted interactions between the proteins that closely evolve with the ACE2 receptor may play a role in COVID-19 complications.