Happy New Year, Yellowjackets! 🎉

Wishing all who are celebrating a bright and joyous Kwanzaa!

On Christmas 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched into space This stunning new image—"a vivid portrait of a stellar nursery in action"—marks the anniversary Dozens of URochester faculty and alumni have been part of the JWST teams #URochesterResearch

To all who are celebrating today, a very merry Christmas!🎄

🗓️ 2025: Watch in wonder...✨ #EverWonder #EverBetter #YearInReview

As Hanukkah continues, fried foods take center stage—linking today’s celebrations to centuries of tradition, as URochester researchers explain 🕯️🍩 www.rochester.edu/newscenter/h...

For those checking out “Avatar: Fire and Ash” tonight! Linguist & URochester alum Paul Frommer ’65 built Na’vi, the language spoken on Pandora and a popular fictional language like Klingon, Elvish & Dothraki Ayoel ayngati kameie nìwotx! We see you all! #EverWonder #EverBetter

URochester’s new economic impact report highlights how education, healthcare, research & arts strengthen jobs & opportunity across our region With $660M in community benefits and a $488M research enterprise, we’re proud to support Rochester’s future 🔗 uofr.us/4pK4qdY

Congratulations to President Sarah Mangelsdorf, named a 2025 ICON honoree last night by the Rochester Business Journal rbjdaily.bsky.social 🎉 Thank you for your years of iconic leadership—to the University and to our Rochester community!

Wishing a Hanukkah season of light and peace to all who are celebrating. #ChagSameach

Our professors are cheering on students as they tackle final exams. You’ve got this, Yellowjackets!

Time for that last day of classes feeling ☀️

In mailboxes now! 📫 The newest issue of Rochester Review magazine, sporting a new design and a fascinating cover story showcasing the 175 ways that URochester has made our world ever better. Check out Rochester Review stories online: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/f...

New #URochesterResearch finds that “crowdchecking” works to make social feeds more trustworthy Researchers analyzed 264k+ posts and found that when Community Notes are shown publicly on X, authors become 32% more likely to retract their misleading posts www.rochester.edu/newscenter/c...

On #WorldAIDSDay we honor URochester’s fight against AIDS @urochestersmd.bsky.social alum Michael Gottlieb first identified the disease in 1981; our libraries house one of the largest HIV/AIDS poster collections; and @rocvictoryalliance.bsky.social leads on HIV vaccines #EverWonder #EverBetter

Celebrating William Blake’s birthday! The William Blake Archive—among the earliest digital scholarly archives on the internet, co-founded by URochester’s Morris Eaves—continues to bring Blake’s work to new generations www.rochester.edu/news/william... #EverWonder | @blakequarterly.bsky.social

Wishing everyone celebrating today a very happy Thanksgiving! 💙💛

Taste buds on a world tour 🌏😋 From familiar favorites to a first taste of something new, the International Education Week Food Festival was a delicious way to bring the campus community together. #IEW2025 #InternationalEducationWeek

Did you know that @urochester.bsky.social CHeT has played an instrumental role in bringing 12 drugs & devices to market—including treatments for Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, & neuromuscular diseases? @urmed.bsky.social 👇Read more in the latest issue of NEUROSCIENCE issuu.com/urmc/docs/ne...

Save the date! 🎓 We're getting ready to celebrate the Class of 2026 during Commencement Weekend, May 15–17. The 176th University Commencement Ceremony is set for 8:45am on Friday, May 15. Visit the Commencement site for all the details. #URochester2026 www.rochester.edu/commencement

Imagine #AR glasses as easy and clear to wear as your everyday specs. URochester researchers have developed a new metasurface-based in-coupler that improves brightness and image quality in AR lenses | #URochesterResearch www.rochester.edu/newscenter/m...

Floating laboratory coming through! URochester researchers turned kayaks into floating labs on the Genesee River + Erie Canal — collecting real-time data on greenhouse gases where nature meets engineering. #URochesterResearch www.rochester.edu/newscenter/a...

"Illiberalism is not just one thing; it’s a collection of ideas and practices." Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and URochester alum Steven Hahn ’73 explores the deep roots of inequality and hierarchy in his new book, Illiberal America: A History | www.rochester.edu/newscenter/s...

Hello, snow! ❄️

This #VeteransDay, we salute 80 years of URochester NROTC—honoring the Midshipmen, alumni, and mentors who’ve advanced a proud legacy of leadership and service.

Supermoon! 🌕 📸 The biggest and brightest supermoon of 2025 over campus this week, captured by computer science professor Jiebo Luo.

🎶 Rick Carl ’19, ’20 (MS) is the designer behind Moog’s acclaimed Labyrinth & Muse synths—now part of a state-of-the-art lab at @urengineering.bsky.social From student to innovator, he’s inspiring the next wave of musicians and engineers #URochesterAlumni | uofr.us/3JG8pII

2 A.M., here we are 🕑 (daylight savings time ends tonight so remember to turn your clocks back, Yellowjackets)

We blinked and October was gone and we need proof it actually happened 🍂📷

Congratulations, iGEM team!! @igemhq.bsky.social @uofrigem.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

URochester biology professors Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov are uncovering the secrets of aging by studying nature’s longest-living mammals—bowhead whales The findings offer a new clue to understand how humans can live longer, too | www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Add this game-changing tech to the playbook🏈 Biomed engineering major Kade Kauffmann '26 is an intern at @urmed.bsky.social Motion Labs, working with researchers and clinical providers to help athletes understand how they move on the field @urengineering.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social

Seen tonight on Jeopardy! #Meliora #EverBetter #WhatIsBetter

Today, the United Nations celebrates its 80th anniversary—a milestone in global diplomacy. Randall Stone, URochester professor of political science and a leading expert on international institutions, says the UN “is more necessary than ever.” www.rochester.edu/newscenter/w... #UN80 #UNDay

Transferring doesn’t mean starting over—it means starting fresh ✨ From research experience to a flexible curriculum, from leadership opportunities to a welcoming community, students who transfer to URochester find freedom & support they need to thrive. Hear from transfer students: uofr.us/3JizQIy

Wishing a bright and happy Diwali to all who are celebrating this week! #ShubhDeepavali #Diwali2025

Higher education is the 4th most trusted institution in America, behind only hospitals and doctors, the military, and scientists and researchers, according to a sweeping new 50-state study on public attitudes toward universities #URochesterResearch | uofr.us/48yuKlD @rochesterpolisci.bsky.social

Wonder-fall 🍂

URochester scientists at @urengineering.bsky.social are using human tissue on microchips to study how the brain protects itself, and how that protection can break down 🧠 #URochesterResearch | uofr.us/4n1CvnO

You love your team, but have you ever asked “why?” Is it the adrenaline? The wings?🍗 Or maybe it's tradition, family, hometown pride❤️💙 @urmed.bsky.social sports psychologist @cypherpsych.bsky.social says tapping into our “Healthy Why” lets us enjoy the game, win or lose uofr.us/496jSLU

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature His American editor at ndbooks.bsky.social, Declan Spring ’87—a University of Rochester English graduate—is celebrating the culmination of decades of collaboration uofr.us/4qb8aGc #URochesterArts #URochesterAlumni

The same quantum tunneling honored by this year’s #NobelPrize is driving #URochesterResearch @machielblok.bsky.social is building quantum systems that do what classical computers can’t—inspired by the same fundamental questions uofr.us/48o7I0K #QuantumPhysics #QuantumComputing

On this day in 1913, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester opened its doors 🎉 Happy birthday to one of the best art museums in the country, and one of the few university-affiliated museums that also serves as a community museum!

Ever wonder why the future of computing is quantum? URochester Professor John Nichol explains some of the basic science behind quantum physics, and how applying those principles will allow us to build better computers #NobelPrize

Did the NFL's "Deflategate" scandal actually produce any real, scientific benefits for certain quarterbacks? This weekend seems like a particularly good time to hear more on the physics of football from @urengineering.bsky.social Professor John Lambropoulos. 🏈 #URochesterResearch

New look, same promise: Ever wonder. Ever better. Today, we're proud to launch a refreshed brand identity that keeps pace with the dynamic, collaborative, and innovative spirit that has always defined us. #EverWonder #EverBetter #URochester www.rochester.edu/communicatio...

A joyful and sweet new year to all who are celebrating this week! #ShanahTovah

Almost there.....! To everyone travelling back to campus for #MelioraWeekend, we can't wait to welcome you—when you strike a pose near the letters, tag us or use our hashtag so we can say hello!

When alumnus Benjamín Castañeda returned to Peru, he found rural clinics lacking technicians or funding Back at URochester as a professor, he's developing ultrasounds anyone can learn in 20 minutes #MyRochesterStory #URochesterResearch @urengineering.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGMl...

TACKLING HEAD INJURIES: This season, URochester researchers at @urneuroscience.bsky.social are teaming up with the Yellowjackets to continue a decades-long mission to understand how head injuries affect athletes and service members #URochesterResearch | uofr.us/4mdbrl6