Research

Charles Gaugh, Optics Expert, and myself at the “Frontiers in Optics” Industry Exhibit Hall Last month, I traveled to Tucson, AZ, for an annual scientific conference in optics as a…

This past summer, I traveled to Ladakh, India, to conduct undergraduate research on tobacco control initiatives taking place there. It was a great opportunity to take what I'd learned in the…

  Networking session in the Munnerlyn Atrium, Goergen Hall. Orientation week has been crazy—you’ve met so many people (and you’ve forgotten most of their names), you haven’t slept more than…

We were thrilled to host a successful Secondary Schools Issues Conference (SSIC) at the beginning of June, featuring about twenty International Baccalaureate coordinators representing sixteen US states. We had coordinators…

I’m in Boulder, Colorado, over the summer for an internship in optical engineering. I am working on developing optical design software with a company called FiveFocal, LLC. It’s been four…

In August, I’ll be traveling to Leh, Ladakh, India, where I’ll be working with Professor Nancy Chin on her smoking cessation research project. I’m so excited to have the chance…

A year ago, if someone had asked me to define ‘anthropology’ I would have struggled to come up with a confident answer. Truthfully, I really had no idea what anthropology…

Oftentimes you hear this term being thrown around by upperclassmen, but what really is independent study? According to the College of Arts & Sciences, its purpose is “to provide opportunities for…

As my last semester at the University of Rochester begins and my senior year comes to an end, it is bittersweet. It is terrific and terrifying to be entering the…

As of 6 p.m. today, I will have completed my first semester at the University of Rochester. Wow! Has it been that long? Just yesterday I matriculated, arriving on campus…

After devouring some turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and topping it all off with fancy desserts, I bet the Thanksgiving break was awesome. I won’t be surprised to see some of…

The University of Rochester is known for its focus on research and its encouragement for undergraduate students to partake in research in nearly every department of the University. Prior to…