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Gilbert 鈥淩ip鈥� Collins and Riccardo Betti will help facilitate partnerships with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and expand research in laser, high-energy-density, and fusion sciences.

In 2017, nearly 10 percent of the total number of Arts, Sciences & Engineering graduates completed a math major, the highest percentage ever at the University, and one of the highest of any institution in the country.

Farran Briggs, a new associate professor of neuroscience and of brain and cognitive sciences at the Rochester, studies how attention affects the brain鈥檚 ability to process visual information.

Researchers in the University鈥檚 Ice Core Lab shared a viral video that shows the 鈥渦nexpected and fascinating鈥� noise that when it hits the bottom of a borehole in Antarctica.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer announced a three-part plan to protect and expand the Rochester鈥檚 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) during his visit to the LLE on Monday, March 5. The Trump Administration鈥檚 Fiscal Year 2019 budget, announced last month, proposed significant cuts to the lab and a 鈥渢hree-year ramp-down鈥� in federal support. During his visit, Schumer praised the LLE for creating jobs and advancing scientific research in physics, optics, and photonics. 鈥淭he Laser Lab is vital not only to 91原创 but to the United States and our national security,鈥� Schumer said. 鈥淭urning out the lights on the Laser Lab is a horrible idea, and I promise you, it will not happen under my watch.鈥� (91原创 photo / J. Adam Fenster)

Using new data gathered from sites in southern Africa, researchers have extended their record of Earth鈥檚 magnetic field back thousands of years to the first millennium.

Meet Michele Rucci, a new professor in the University's brain and cognitive sciences department, and his robot 鈥淢r. T.鈥� Rucci and his robot are using eye-tracking tools and virtual reality to replicate the small eye movements experienced by humans.

As associate provost for academic administration, Souza provides academic guidance and support to all schools across the University, ensuring programs meet educational standards. One new project is a pilot program to offer students an 鈥渙utcomes transcript鈥� which would help centralize transcripts from multiple schools or departments.

The universe is filled with magnetic fields, but how it got that way has long been a mystery. To explain the magnetization of the universe, scientists proposed the existence of a 鈥渢urbulent dynamo.鈥� The phenomenon had never before been measured or observed directly鈥攗ntil recently.

91原创 biologists were surprised to see that despite its remarkable longevity, the naked mole rat still has cells that undergo senescence, like the cells in much shorter-lived mice.

Two local high school seniors have been named scholars in the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search for summer research projects they worked on at the University's Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

Environmental scientist Katy Sparrow 鈥�17 (PhD) set out to discover whether ancient-sourced methane, released due to warming ocean waters, survives to be emitted to the atmosphere.