Alumnus Siddhartha “Sid” Dalal ’71 (MA), ’73S (MBA), ’76 (PhD) and his children—Nemil Dalal and Preeyel Dalal ’06—have committed more than $1 million to establish the Dalal Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in AI Ethics at @urochester.bsky.social #Meliora everbetter.rochester.edu/dalal-family...

It’s time. 💙💛 The University Commencement Ceremony on Friday and other school and department graduation ceremonies on Friday and Saturday will be livestreamed. 🔗 Check out the full livestream schedule: https://uofr.us/3P3NylD

This week nearly 700 students will graduate from the @urochester.bsky.social's Hajim School and @sethvoorheestv.bsky.social caught up with a few seniors as they presented their final capstone projects on Design Day #URochesterResearch @uofrbme.bsky.social spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/rocheste...

The University of Rochester Class of 2026 is shaping what’s next—these leaders, creators, and changemakers are ready to make their mark. 🎓 https://www.rochester.edu/commencement/class-of-2026/making-their-mark/ #URochester2026

Last night we met our challenge! More than 125 donors gave to the Hajim School for Day of Giving, unlocking an additional $25,000 thanks to Wendi Heinzelman, John and Barbara Bruning Dean of the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. give.rochester.edu/schools/Univ...

Match complete! Hajim School $100+ donors contributed $15,000 for Day of Giving and were matched dollar-for-dollar by alumnus Scott DeGhetto ’87. Your gift today still makes a difference. If you haven't already, support the Hajim School before 11:59 p.m. ET: give.rochester.edu/schools/Univ...

The VivoFlux​ team of Chloe (Kaihua) Chen (BME PhD Alumni ’25), Isabelle Linares (BME PhD Candidate ’26), and PhD student Kevin Ling (BME PhD Candidate ’26) earn recognition at Rice Business Plan Competition. www.hajim.rochester.edu/bme/news-eve...

This is our moment. For 24 hours, the @urochester.bsky.social community is coming together to make a difference. And right now, your gift to the Hajim School goes further through special matches and challenges! Make your impact today #URochesterGives give.rochester.edu/schools/Univ...

Art or science? Why not both? The Ed and Barbara Hajim Art of Science Competition (urengineering.bsky.social) showcases the aesthetic beauty that results when science, art, and technology intersect. 🔗 Read more about this year's winners: https://uofr.us/4uld44C

🎉 Huge congratulations to #URochesterBME senior Annika Deans and alum Devin Wong on earning #NSF Graduate Research Fellowships! A major achievement that highlights their research excellence and future impact in #STEM. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4w9uczj4 #NSFGRFP #GRFP @urengineering.bsky.social #Meliora!

A new AI method translates plain-language prompts into experimental procedures, streamlining the discovery and synthesis of novel materials for applications such as carbon dioxide conversion. doi.org/hbxfdv

Can AI help cut catalyst development from a decade+ to just a year? Research in ACS Central Science shows how LLMs can accelerate materials discovery. ARPA-E will invest nearly $3 million to advance the tech @acs.org Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/a... Study: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Left brain or right? At URochester, we wonder: why not both?

A shout-out to Aldo Tecse @uofrbme.bsky.social @marcoslabur.bsky.social #BuckleyLab @cvsuor.bsky.social, presenting today in #GraduateResearch Day @urengineering.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social #URochesterResearch #CornealBiomechanics #OCE

#AdaptiveOptics: From #Astromony to the #Eye. Peter Wizinowich, Chief of Technical Development at the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii visits @cvsuor.bsky.social #RochesterOptics @urengineering.bsky.social. Here with Tianlun, Sabya & Aina discussing one of our #AO Visual Simulators 🔭➡️👁️

Welcome Adhiti Ramasubramanian & Eduardo Lujan 1st year PhD Students in @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social rotating in our lab, contributing to #SHG & #OCE research projects @marcoslabur.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social

🔷BME Colloquium Seminar 🗓️Date: 04/28/26, 8:30 AM 📣Wei Ouyang, PhD 📄Title: “Bioelectronics for Organ-Centered Care” 🎈Goergen Hall 101, or on Zoom! 🔗 Event Page: events.rochester.edu/event/bme-se... #URochester #URochesterBME #BME #colloquium @urengineering.bsky.social

A new squeezed phonon laser developed by @urochester.bsky.social and @rittigers.bsky.social researchers provides nanoscale control over phonons, which could tell us about gravity, particle acceleration, and quantum physics. Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/w... Paper: www.doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Meet Robusto! UR Baja SAE Yellowjacket Racing unveiled their 2026 car, designed and built by teams of URochester students from majors across the University. The team will compete against more than 100 other colleges at off-road racing events over the summer. Go Yellowjackets!

Professor Zhen Bai and her computer science students participated in the @museumofplay.bsky.social's annual Deaf Day of Play this weekend, showing their AI-powered technologies to help hearing families learn ASL together with their Deaf and hard-of-hearing children www.rochester.edu/newscenter/a...

Great job by Sabyasachi Goswami in his @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social #GraduateStudent Lunch Talk. Impressive results aiming at understanding #vision, #accommodation, #oculardominance with CLs for #myopia control & #monovision @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social #NEI

How will augmented reality reshape the way humans interact with computers on a daily basis? Barry Silverstein, director of @urochester.bsky.social Center for eXtended Reality, discussed it on Connections with @evandawson1.bsky.social on @wxxirochester.bsky.social www.wxxinews.org/show/connect...

🔷BME Colloquium Seminar 🗓️Date: 03/26/26, 8:30 AM 📣Mohamed Ghanem, PhD 📄Title: “Acoustic radiation force and its applications” 🎈Goergen Hall 101, or on Zoom! 🔗 Event Page: events.rochester.edu/event/bme-se... #URochester #URochesterBME #BME #colloquium @urengineering.bsky.social

Interested in #orthotics and #prosthetics? Join the UR BMES student chapter for a #CareerTalk featuring URMC O&P residents, who will share insights on the field and the #biomechanics behind it. 📅 Wednesday, 3/25 ⏰ 5:30 PM 📍 Dewey 1-101 #BME #URochesterBME @urengineering.bsky.social

Illustrations by Hajim students have graced the covers of several notable journals recently. Sinhara Perera's work graced the front cover of the latest issue of EES Catalysis, and Felix Wong created the back cover of the February issue of Advanced Optical Materials. Well done!

03/09-12/2026 Students, faculty, and professionals participate in the AIM Photonics PIC testing and packaging workshop. @urengineering.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social

Just 15 projects nationwide were named National Science Foundation (NSF) Engine national finalists—only one from New York State, led by the University of Rochester Learn much more about the URochester-led STELLAR project: https://uofr.us/4cEudkk

For a little fun before spring break, mechanical engineering students in the ME 205 Senior Design class taught by Professor Chris Muir designed and built remote-controlled cars mounted with Barbies and put them to the test in a 12-team double elimination contest.

Happy Engineers Week! 🎉 We’re very proud of the @urochester.bsky.social students, faculty, and alumni who push boundaries, ask questions, and create solutions that make a difference. ⚙️💙🐝 #engineeringstudent #urochester #hajimschoolofengineering #engineersweek

NEW paper from @marcoslabur.bsky.social Photobonding of silk fibroin-based hydrogels to rabbit corneas. doi.org/10.3389/fbio... #URochesterResearch @urengineering.bsky.social

1of2) NEW publication from Jannick Rolland in Optics Express: A new design method optimizes large-scale metasurfaces with many parts while modeling near-field coupling also known as crosstalk... doi.org/10.1364/OE.5... #URochesterResearch @urengineering.bsky.social

URochester and @RITtigers to receive $2M to expand capabilities for Rochester Quantum Network Thank you to @schumer.senate.gov, @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and @morelle.house.gov for their support securing crucial funding to advance quantum communication More on RoQNET: https://uofr.us/4qDjauJ

"The most dangerous feeds are not the ones that upset us, but the ones that convince us we are always right," says @urochester.bsky.social PhD student Adiba Proma. New #URochesterResearch says slight design tweaks could reduce echo chambers on social media www.rochester.edu/newscenter/e...

Seeing in 3D depends on eye movement more than we thought 👁️ #URochesterResearch shows those tiny motions help the brain judge depth—with potential to improve VR, visual tech, everyday vision https://uofr.us/3MzGJGZ @urengineering.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com#URochesterResearch

New #URochesterResearch finds the brain uses eye movements to see in 3D. This work could provide insight and new applications for visual technologies, such as virtual reality headsets via @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

Barry Silverstein, who joined the @urochester.bsky.social faculty in January as director of the Center for Extended Reality, was a guest on Following the Photons. He discussed his career as an optics and photonics innovator, CXR and its mission, and the future of AR, VR, and AI #URochesterResearch

Professor Chunlei Guo from the @urochester.bsky.social Institute of Optics looked to diving bell spiders and rafts of fire ants for inspiration when he set out to create superhydrophobic materials that could make unsinkable metal devices #URochesterResearch

Introducing OPT448 #Vision & the #Eye Class -Spring 2026 @urochester.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social #Optics #BME #BCS A multidisciplinary group of students embark in a journey of discovery of the physical & physiological basis of vision & optical tools to assess it @cvsuor.bsky.social

Several meetings brought me from @urochestersmd.bsky.social to @urochester.bsky.social River Campus this week. The #EastmanQuandrangle is glowing in the #winter sun, still wrapped in last week’s fresh snow; #RochesterOptics #CenterforeXtendedReality @urengineering.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social ❄️🌞🎓

A generous $600,000 gift from a professor at the Institute of Optics and a Warner School alumna establishes the Dr. Govind Agrawal and Anne Agrawal Professorship in Optics, which will help the Institute expand by supporting new early career faculty member everbetter.rochester.edu/gift-establi...

Taking inspiration from rafts of floating fire ants, learn how our researchers turned ordinary metal tubes into superhydrophobic materials that could become the basis for ships, buoys, and floating platforms #URochesterResearch

University operating status for Monday, Jan. 26 ❄️ Classes and activities are cancelled for River Campus, Eastman School, School of Nursing, and SMD Graduate Program Only essential staff should report to work on Monday See rochester.edu/emergency for full info and updates

New paper from Jannick Rolland in Optica: Design methods for imaging with freeform optics doi.org/10.1364/OPTI... #URochesterResearch @urengineering.bsky.social

Great participation of @cvsuor.bsky.social members & collaborators at @io-csic.bsky.social #PUCP @umiamiengineering.bsky.social #BascomPalmer; @uhouston.bsky.social in San Francisco @spie.org #PhotonicsWest @urengineering.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social #RochesterOptics @urochester.bsky.social

Chemical engineers at @urochester.bsky.social developed new techniques to help produce everyday products from plastics to detergents without relying on precious metals like platinum #URochesterResearch www.rochester.edu/newscenter/t...

[email protected] Trustee Emeritus John Bruning ’24 (Honorary) and Barbara Bruning committed $10 million to establish an endowed deanship for the Hajim School. Their generosity will help shape the future of the school and its leadership for years to come! www.rochester.edu/newscenter/j...

"As we gather at Photonics West in January, I want to challenge all of us—especially those early in their careers—to push through at least one boundary." @urochester.bsky.social Professor Julie Bentley, President of @spie.org, shares advice about the power of networking spie.org/news/photoni...

We love seeing Hajim students turning experiential learning into business ventures! Congratulations to Walter McDonald and Stephen Lim on this exciting new venture.

01/01/2026 Dr. Sari Al Zerey joined our team as a post-doctoral research associate. Welcome! @urengineering.bsky.social

With heavy hearts, we share the news that Kevin Parker, the William F. May Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at #URochester, died in late December at the age of 71. He was a pioneer in the field of ultrasound imaging and a revered faculty member. www.rochester.edu/newscenter/k...