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Luke Auburn
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Director of Communications for the University of Rochester’s Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. RIT alumnus ‘09, ‘15
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Products from squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture are made by turning propane to propylene. Researchers at @urochester.bsky.social gained new atomic insights that could make the manufacturing process more efficient
Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/a...
Paper: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
Atomic insights could boost chemical manufacturing efficiency
University of Rochester researchers develop algorithms that reveal how propane becomes propylene for everyday products.
www.rochester.edu
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Congratulations to Institute of Optics alumnus Alex Gaeta '90 PhD on being elected @optica.org vice president. That makes two @urochester.bsky.social alumni in the Optica presidential chain, joining President James Kafka.
optica.org Optica @optica.org · Oct 29
We are thrilled to announce that Alex Gaeta has been elected as the 2026 Optica Vice President!

Alex's experience covers nearly four decades of research in quantum, nonlinear photonics and volunteer service to Optica and the greater optics community.

Read more: https://bit.ly/49mrfz6
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Professor Benjamín Castañeda has devoted his career to bringing life-saving technology to rural areas across the globe! #MyRochesterStory #URochesterResearch
urochester.bsky.social University of Rochester @urochester.bsky.social · Sep 17
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
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My Rochester Story: Benjamín Castañeda '09 (PhD)
YouTube video by University of Rochester
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September 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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How did @urochester.bsky.social researchers make solar thermoelectric generators that are 15 times more efficient than previous devices? A little black metal🤘 #URochesterResearch
Read about the research: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/s...
See the full paper: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation
University of Rochester researchers engineered a solar thermoelectric generator 15 times more efficient than current state-of-the-art devices.
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August 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Could Alexa help you find out if you have Parkinson's disease? Computer scientists at @urochester.bsky.social made a speech-based AI tool that can screen for a key indicator of the neurodegenerative disease #URochesterResearch Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/a... Study: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A novel fusion architecture for detecting Parkinson’s Disease using semi-supervised speech embeddings - npj Parkinson's Disease
We introduce a framework for screening Parkinson’s disease (PD) using English pangram utterances. Our dataset includes 1306 participants (392 with PD) from both home and clinical settings, covering di...
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July 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Each year, over 30 million people have cataract surgery—and Rochester leads the field in developing new approaches to one of the most important procedures for restoring sight

#URochesterResearch | uofr.us/40UgKOi

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What are intraocular lenses? And how can they restore sight for patients with cataracts?
New technology using intraocular lenses is quickly improving the world’s most common form of eye surgery.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A #quantum leap in communication: @urochester.bsky.social & @rittigers.bsky.social have created the experimental Rochester Quantum Network sending #photons 11 miles across Rochester—paving the way for ultra-secure communication. Check out the @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social spotlight: bit.ly/4lgO0I0
RIT, UR partner on first quantum communication experiment in upstate N.Y.
RIT and U of R have partnered up for the first quantum communication experiment for upstate universities to explore a new form of secure communication.
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July 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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LASER TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGH: Rochester researchers at @urengineering.bsky.social have designed a new laser smaller than a penny that can measure objects at ultrafast rates

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The letters U and R in lego blocks with red laser beams criss-crossing over them. A tiny chip is help up against a penny for scale and size.
June 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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@urochester.bsky.social is making a bold $8.5m investment in four new transdisciplinary research centers. Three of these centers are co-led by distinguished Hajim School of Engineering faculty. Learn more: www.rochester.edu/provost/four...
June 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Chemical engineers at @urengineering.bsky.social developed a clever new way to study the atomic interactions that happen on the surface of materials so we can develop more energy efficient batteries and other devices
Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/n...
Study: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
New method to study catalysts could lead to better batteries
A new algorithm opens the door for using artificial intelligence and machine learning to study the interactions that happen on the surface of materials.
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June 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A new laser smaller than a penny engineered by researchers at @urochester.bsky.social could be used for everything from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves #URochesterResearch @urengineering.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/c...
New laser smaller than a penny can measure objects at ultrafast rates
The chip-scale laser has applications ranging from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves.
www.rochester.edu
June 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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A new scholars program established by a @urochester.bsky.social trustee will allow undergraduates in chemical engineering and chemistry to conduct research at the forefront of sustainability under the guidance of Rochester faculty @urengineering.bsky.social #ROC www.rochester.edu/newscenter/u...
New scholars program is a catalyst for undergraduate research on chemical sustainability
Inaugural cohort of Barbara J. Burger Chemical Sustainability Scholars embarks on 15-month paid research experiences.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Scientists know that neurons communicate by firing electrical pulses, but what if light is at play too? Researchers from @urochester.bsky.social launched an ambitious new project to find out @urengineering.bsky.social #ROC www.rochester.edu/newscenter/o...
Do neurons transmit light?
University of Rochester researchers aim to see if neurons can transport light like fiber-optic communications channels.
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April 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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.@urengineering.bsky.social researchers found that twisting 2 layers of nano-thin materials together at large angles creates artificial atoms that can act as quantum information bits #URochesterResearch
Paper in Nano Letters: doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/t...
Twisting atomically thin materials could advance quantum computers
Placing two layers of special 2D materials together and turning them at large angles creates artificial atoms with intriguing optical properties.
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March 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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There are nearly as many versions of Rochester alumnus Edward Ashton ’96 (PhD) as there are of #Mickey17, the protagonist who comes to life (literally and often!) in the new film based on Ashton's novel

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The magnificent Mickey7
University of Rochester alumnus Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel Mickey7 gets a Hollywood glow-up with Bong Joon-ho’s film Mickey 17.
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March 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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#Mickey17 hits theaters Friday, bringing a novel by @urengineering.bsky.social alumnus @edashtonwriting.bsky.social to the big screen. How does a story by a #ROC cancer researcher become a film by #Oscar winning director Bong Joon-Ho? It's stranger than fiction www.rochester.edu/newscenter/r...
The magnificent Mickey7
University of Rochester alumnus Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel Mickey7 gets a Hollywood glow-up with Bong Joon-ho’s film Mickey 17.
www.rochester.edu
March 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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New review out in @NatureRevMicro on the complex rltnshp btween metabolism & AMR! A true labor of love from previous postbac Mehrose, grad students Varun & Zirui, and collaborator @drrobsmith.bsky.social (plus figures I'll likely use for many talks to come 😊) rdcu.be/eaES2
The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Ahmad et al. examine how antibiotics influence bacterial metabolism and how metabolism, in turn, affects drug efficacy and the emergence and evolution...
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February 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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How many quishes could a QR code quash if a QR code could quash quishes? @urengineering.bsky.social researchers are developing and working to commercialize new forms of QR codes to help protect people from scams #URochesterResearch @urochester.bsky.social www.rochester.edu/newscenter/q...
New technology could quash QR code phishing attacks
The improved QR code format would let smartphone users know if they’re heading to a secure website—or wading into a potential ‘quishing’ scam.
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February 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social by @urengineering.bsky.social researchers reveals the surprising ways surface and ocean weather patterns interact #URochesterResearch

Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/h...
How does the atmosphere affect ocean weather?
A new Rochester study upends previous assumptions about how surface winds and ocean weather patterns interact.
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February 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Ocean weather is affected by the atmosphere in unexpected ways: Scientists found that atmospheric winds can either slow or energize ocean eddies depending on their direction.

#OceanWeather #ClimateConnections #AtmosphereImpact #MarineScience #WeatherPatterns #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Ocean weather is affected by the atmosphere in unexpected ways
Scientists found that atmospheric winds can either slow or energize ocean eddies depending on their direction.
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February 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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#EverWonder…?

Why do we wake up taller than when we went to sleep? Rochester professor Mark Buckley explains the phenomenon known as poroelastic creep.

Learn more about poroelasticity from Prof. Buckley, and his passion for making engineering accessible to all.

www.rochester.edu/newscenter/m...
Mark Buckley: Biomedical engineering as a passion worth sharing
Mark Buckley prioritizes inclusiveness in the classroom when teaching biomedical engineering at the University of Rochester
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January 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Congrats to @gracestensland.bsky.social ’23! As a #soundeffects editor for “Orion and the Dark” & #foley editor for “Jurassic World: Chaos Theory”, Grace helped earn @theemmys.tv & MPSE Golden Reel noms. Huge shoutout to Grace & Sound Rebels Post for their amazing work! #URAlumni
January 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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As the Head of AI Strategy & Research in the Office of the CTO at @bloomberg.com, Amanda Stent '01 works across the company to help it break down barriers in key strategic areas related to AI. See what the @urochester.bsky.social alum thinks the future holds for AI www.rochester.edu/newscenter/a...
Amanda Stent ’01: Guiding the future of AI in industry and academia
The Head of AI Strategy & Research in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg reflects on the state of artificial intelligence (AI).
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January 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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How do visual cues like lip movements help our brains understand speech in noisy environments? @urochester.bsky.social Associate Professor Ed Lalor received funding from the NIH to find out #URochesterResearch www.rochester.edu/newscenter/h...
How does the brain cut through noise to understand speech?
University of Rochester researchers investigate how visual cues enhance the brain’s ability to understand speech in noisy environments.
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January 16, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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New #URochesterResearch uncovers the “missing link” in how sleep restores the brain. Natural oscillations drive the cleaning process, but common sleep aid zolpidem may disrupt it🧠
via @cellcellpress.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
January 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM