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White text reads "Faculty Awards" against a blue-colored background image of architectural detail featuring an ironwork owl and vines.
Latest NewsApril 28, 2025

Professional organizations across numerous disciplines have recognized Rochester faculty contributions.

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April 14, 2025

Rochester researchers aim to determine if neurons can transport light like fiber-optic communications channels.

Benjamin Castañeda and Emilio Ochoa converse while reviewing data displayed on multiple computer screens.
April 4, 2025

Professor Benjamín Castañeda ’09 (PhD) leads a global effort to meet critical needs for medical technology.

AI-generated illustration of artificial general intelligence shows a gleaming robot sitting at a desk, looking pensive, and writing with its left hand with a few books stacked on the desk.
April 3, 2025

Computer scientist Christopher Kanan discusses AI, large language models, and the responsible use of artificial general intelligence.

John Ghyzel in a Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ Yellowjackets uniform pitching a baseball.
March 25, 2025

Seven years after leaving the University to play professional baseball, the Virginia native earned a bachelor’s in engineering science.

Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ graduate student smiles while manipulating the apparatus in an optics lab.
March 15, 2025

Placing two layers of special 2D materials together and turning them at large angles creates artificial atoms with intriguing optical properties.

White text reads "Faculty Awards" against a blue-colored background image of architectural detail featuring an ironwork owl and vines.
March 4, 2025

National and international organizations are recognizing Rochester faculty members for their work.

Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7, looks at the camera with his arms folded. Behind him is an extensive bookshelf and a framed movie poster for "Mickey 17."
March 4, 2025

Alumnus Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel Mickey7 gets a Hollywood glow up with Bong Joon-ho’s film Mickey 17.

A hand holds up a phone and on the screen the new QR code technology to prevent quishing.
February 11, 2025

The improved QR code format would let smartphone users know if they’re heading to a secure website—or wading into a potential ‘quishing’ scam.

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February 6, 2025

Named professorships are part of a long-standing tradition to celebrate Rochester’s faculty as researchers, scholars, and teachers.