A robotic hand with brains
Gripping a pencil is not the same as picking up a baseball, especially for robots, which lack the versatility and...
James Longenbach’s latest book a finalist for award
The National Book Critics Circle has announced that Earthling, a new book of poetry by James Longenbach, the Joseph H....
Looking at urban history as a fight for space, power
Chicago, Istanbul, Rome, and Delhi. The students in the 100-level course The City: Contested Spaces take a virtual tour of them all,...
The mysterious aftermath of an infamous pirate raid
Assistant professor of history Pablo Sierra Silva has embarked on research for his second book, which will trace the paths...
Knox elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors
This week the University of Rochester professor of optics is among the latest fellows to be elected to the National Academy...
Two University researchers earn $1.5 million grants
Two University of Rochester researchers were recently awarded separate $1.5 million grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is...
Five with James VanDemark
James VanDemark is a renowned professor of double bass at the Eastman School of Music. His former students hold positions...
Making the world a healthier place
Chunlei Guo is an optical physicist and professor at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics. Ten years ago, he...
Dark matter is leading suspect in positron mystery
Researchers have proposed several possible sources of the positrons. They might be coming from pulsars—massive stars that have collapsed and...
100 years of solitude? Try 15 minutes instead
Lead researcher Thuy-vy Nguyen, a Rochester doctoral candidate in clinical and social sciences in psychology, together with veteran psychology professors Richard Ryan and Edward...