Recent News
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URochester launches first NY THRIVE partnership to accelerate semiconductor innovation
The collaboration combines University expertise with industry to develop technologies for faster, more energy-efficient computing.
Quantum researchers engineer extremely precise phonon lasers
Novel lasers utilize individual particles of vibration or sound to measure quantum mechanics and gravity.
URochester, RIT receive federal funding to expand experimental ways to communicate using individual particles of light
The funding for the experimental quantum network RoQNET was secured by Senator Schumer, Senator Gillibrand, and Representative Morelle.
URochester awarded Keck Foundation funding to tackle chemistry grand challenge
The cutting-edge project aims to harness quantum light to unlock new chemical processes.
URochester researcher joins global effort to advance quantum electrodynamics
Antonino Di Piazza leads on theory for a multimillion-dollar project exploring the limits of light–matter interaction.
Quantum tunneling: URochester physicist explains a Nobel Prize–winning discovery
Machiel Blok’s research in superconducting circuits builds on the same quantum effects recognized by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Why the future of computing is quantum
The strengths and limitations of computing advances are pushing the boundaries of what quantum machines can do.
New theory may solve quantum ‘jigsaw puzzle’
The theory explains how quantum environments can steer chemical reactions—speeding them up or slowing them down without adding heat or light.