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Science & Technology
May 24, 2017 | 12:50 pm

High schoolers come face-to-face with fruit flies

Students from Rochester’s East High School got a sense of how startling science can be when they spent the day in the lab with professors and researchers from the Department of Biology.

topics: community, David Goldfarb, Department of Biology, East High School, Robert Minckley, School of Arts and Sciences, VISTA Collaboratory,
Science & Technology
April 10, 2017 | 12:13 pm

A new way to teach history in the 21st century

A “virtual” re-creation of early settlements on Smith’s Island, Bermuda, offers professor Michael Jarvis and his students immersive experience of the site they are working to excavate.

topics: Department of History, featured-post-side, Michael Jarvis, School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences, VISTA Collaboratory,
Science & Technology
November 21, 2014 | 04:43 pm

Molecular clouds show off potential, beauty of data visualization

“Simulated molecular clouds are beautiful, intricate, and ever-changing — properties that make them ideal candidates for high-powered visualization,” wrote PhD student Erica Kaminski about her award-winning images.

topics: data science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, magnetism, stars, VISTA Collaboratory,
Science & Technology
June 23, 2014 | 09:00 pm

University of Rochester previews new data visualization lab

The new VISTA Collaboratory, located in the Carlson Science and Engineering Library, completes a high performance supercomputing system on a massive scale and is one of only a handful of similar labs in the U.S. The display consists of an array of 24 monitors, is 20 feet wide and 8 feet tall, and has a resolution approaching that of IMAX theaters.

topics: announcements, data science, Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation, IBM, New York State, VISTA Collaboratory,