Posts categorized Research

Maybe you are a person entirely engrossed in history and you can’t stop visiting museums. Maybe the class “Science, Magic, and the Occult” sounded appealing to you. Maybe you wanted…

Three years ago, when I first walked across the River Campus (I know, I’m old). One of the first things I heard about the city of Rochester was, “Don’t go…

The University of Rochester is well known for its exceptional STEM courses and world-class research, specifically in the natural sciences – but the amazing opportunities for research in the Humanities…

Hello everyone! Sorry I have been MIA lately; senior year has been overwhelming. I’m almost at the two month mark, and to be honest, I can’t believe it. The fact…

Read Part One! It’s been around three months since the end of summer, so it’s the perfect time to look back on my experience! Just to recap quickly, I spent…

As most of you may know, the University of Rochester is classified as an R1 Doctoral University⁠—otherwise known as a tier 1 research university—by the Carnegie Classification of Institution of…

Hello hello, thank you for proceeding to part two of my junior year highlights blog (here’s part one, just in case you want to revisit my fall semester)! So in…

Hi everyone! Hope you’re all enjoying your summer, wherever you are. Whether you’re staying on campus or traveling to a new city, doing research or working at a company, or…

by Emily Tworek, Class of 2020 When you think of research, what do you picture? People in white lab coats? Chemical reactions and poster presentations? While that’s part of the…

The University of Rochester is one of the top research university in the United States, but what does it mean to be a research university? How is it different than…