Ph.D. student Joseph Choi is pictured with a multidirectional `perfect paraxial' cloak using 4 lenses designed by himself and University of Rochester professor of physics John C. Howell September 11, 2014. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

ink-jet based 3D-printed human skull implanted with 3D-printed craniofacial bone graft substitutes. Bone graft substitutes were designed after digitization of skull defects by computer tomography analysis, followed by 3D-printing. // 3D prints in the URMC lab of Hani Awad January 13, 2017. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

University of Rochester Institute of Optics professor Chunlei Guo has developed a technique that uses lasers to render materials hydrophobic, illustrated in these images taken in his lab December 19, 2013. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

A shape memory material can be deformed into a temporary shape that holds its form until it is triggered to revert to its permanent shape by application of heat, as shown in this multiple exposure photograph made January 11, 2016. University of Rochester researchers in the lab of associate professor of chemical engineering Mitchell Anthamatten have precisely tuned such an elastomer to change its shape when heated just beneath the human body temperature. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Mossy leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus sikorae), female. // Leaf-tailed geckos, native to Madagascar and part of the private collection of Irondequoit, NY resident and Reef Shoppe owner Thomas Wood, are photographed August 1, 2013. The geckos are among some of the species studied by Daniel Scantlebury, a Ph.D. student in biology at University of Rochester, for a recent paper describing slowdown in the rate at which species form on Madagascar. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Dasypus novemcinctus (nine-banded armadillo). Distribution: Found in North, Central and South America, Conservation status: not threatened, common. The ornate stand is typical of mounts made by Ward’s Natural Science Establishment in the late 1800’s. Also notable is the taxidermy, for example there is half of the carapace removed on the tail to show the underlying bone structure. // Items from the University of Rochester’s former natural history museum are photographed in Hutchison Hall March 20, 2018 to promote The Ward Project, a new collaborative initiative that aims to enable scientists, historians, and archivists to recreate the inventory of Professor Henry A. Ward, a Rochester faculty member from 1862-1875, who founded Ward's Natural Science Establishment in 1862, by linking 19th century collections at their institutions to the original catalogues, bulletins, and manuscripts as well as document Ward's impact on scientific study and education, and acknowledge his enduring legacy. Co-led by Robert Minckley, Senior Lecturer of Biology, and Melissa Mead, John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian, the initiative is supported by the Departments of Biology and Earth & Environmental Studies, and the River Campus Libraries (RCL). // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Danielle Scarborough of Elba, NY holds the hand of her son, Hudson Brinkman, in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the recently opened Golisano Children's hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY July 23, 2015. Hudson was born July 10 via emergency caesarian due to elevated heart rate and fluid in his abdominal area. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

**COMPOSITE OF MULTIPLE EXPOSURES** Fireflies including Father Mac’s firefly (Photinus macdermotti), Big dipper firefly (Photinus pyralis), and Chinese Lantern firefly (Photuris versicolor-complex) are seen along Tionesta Creek as biologists from the University of Rochester study firefly populations and other flora and fauna near Kellettville, PA June 28, 2017. UR biology professor Amanda M. Larracuente is working to sequence the genome of the Big Dipper firefly (Photinus pyralis) and is studying the genes involved in the chemical reaction that produces the characteristic flashes of light that fireflies use to communicate, in addition to firefly genome organization and even some of their endosymbionts. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Downtown Rochester, NY is seen in evening aerial photos October 20, 2017. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Sam Becker ’25, an optics major and para ice hockey athlete, is pictured on the ice at Bill Gray’s Iceplex in Rochester, NY January 13, 2023. Becker has survived osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, which he fought for years and which led eventually to his decision to amputate part of his leg below the knee. Becker currently plays for the Buffalo Sabres and recently made the U.S. Men's Development Sled Hockey Team. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

University of Rochester alumnus and historical fiction writer Jennifer Donnelly '85 walks her greyhound Scotty at her home near Poughkeepsie, NY December 14, 2010. Her fourth novel, "Revolution", was published in October. // photo: J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester

Niki Holmes, left and Kayliegh Hogan // University of Rochester Hajim School of Engineering seniors enjoy a slip and slide on a sunny afternoon outside Goergen Athletic Center May 15, 2012. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Photo shoot featuring student dancer Sami Johnson to illustrate University of Rochester study on the color red and how it affects muscles speed and power May 25, 2011. //photo: J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester

University of Rochester Yellowjackets basketball guard Sam Borst-Smith, right and teammate Mack Montague are pictured in the Palestra March 23, 2016. Borst-Smith won the State Farm Assist of the Year Award for his intentionally missed free throw and assist along with the shot made by Montague at the end of UR’s February 7th overtime victory over the University of Chicago. Borst-Smith will attend the 2016 Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships on March 31 in Houston where his assist play and video content made by ESPN will be featured during the event. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

University of Rochester pitcher Rob Mabee [L] throws a curveball to catcher Nolan Schultz in a composited sequence of seven images to illustrate a new study co-authored by Duje Tadin, an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, June 15, 2015. The study asserts that human brains apply an algorithm known as a Kalman filter when tracking an object’s position, which helps the brain process less than perfect visual signals, such as when objects move to the periphery of our visual field where acuity is low. However, the same algorithm that helps our brain track motion can be tricked by the pattern motion of an object, such as the seams on a spinning baseball, which causes our brain to “see” the ball suddenly drop from its curved path when, in reality, it curves steadily. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

l-r: Danielle Ambeau, Aundrea Soong, and Anna Asiama get ready at a mirror. University of Rochester School of Nursing Commencement at Eastman Theatre May 14, 2010. // photo: J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester

Graduates celebrate as degrees are conferred and rain begins to fall. // University of Rochester Arts, Sciences & Engineering commencement ceremony at the River Campus May 21, 2017. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Graduates celebrate as degrees are conferred. // University of Rochester College of Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony at the River Campus May 18, 2014. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

A&S graduates react as they are acknowledged. //University’s of Rochester's Commencement ceremony —marking the conferral of academic degrees for all undergraduate and graduate students—takes place at Fauver Stadium at the Brian F. Prince Athletic Complex May 13, 2022. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Tyler Socash holds up his diploma. // University of Rochester Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development Commencement Ceremony in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre May 16, 2015. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Students walk past Rush Rhees Library during the recessional. // University of Rochester College College of Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony at the River Campus May 20, 2012. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Sarilyn Ivancic crosses the stage with her 8mo son Henry during the University of Rochester's Doctoral Degree Ceremony in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre May 16, 2015. Ivancic's husband Steven followed immediately after her. // photo by J. Adam Fenster /

Tyson Olson kisses his 4-month-old baby, Hunter in front of Kodak Hall after the ceremony. // Kodak Hall with his diploma. // University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Commencement, Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre May 16, 2014. // photo by J. Adam Fenster /

University of Rochester juniors and seniors celebrate the end of the academic year at the Meridian on Eastman quad May 12, 2015. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

First year med student Susan Greenman takes a self with fellow students of her advisory group on the quad steps after the ceremony. // University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry holds its Eleventh Annual Dr. Robert L. & Lillian H. Brent White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2020 at the Interfaith Chapel August 12, 2016. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Minhaj Rahman takes the class selfie after the ceremony. // University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry holds its annual Dr. Robert L. & Lillian H. Brent White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2025 at the Larry and Cindy Bloch Alumni and Advancement Center August 13, 2021. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Brittany Black, left and Leslie Anderson celebrate after matching. // University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry students find out where their residencies will be on Match Day at the URMC March 17, 2017. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Kalese Goodwin receives a coat from Dr. Erik Rueckmann. // University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry holds its annual Dr. Robert L. & Lillian H. Brent White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2026 at the Larry and Cindy Bloch Alumni and Advancement Center August 12, 2022. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

University of Rochester optics professor Nick Vamivakas and physics Ph.D. candidate Levi Neukirch perform experiments with optically levitated nanodiamonds contained inside a trapping chamber in Wilmott Hall June 14, 2013. The process allows researchers to test fundamental physics questions related to quantum mechanics as well as provide a tool to perform high sensitivity nanoscale force sensing. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

A microplasma is created by focusing intense laser pulses in ambient air with a microscope objective in the lab of University of Rochester Institute of Optics Ph.D. student Fabrizio Buccheri and his advisor, professor Xi-Cheng Zhang April 21, 2015 . Besides visible light, the microplasma emits electromagnetic pulses at terahertz frequencies that can be used to detect complex molecules, such as explosives and drugs.// photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

A three color 'white light' laser passes through blocks of gradient index optical polymer. In a gradient index material the index of refraction is spatially varying, so for each of the blocks the index of refraction is higher on one side than it is on the other. Light passing through the block will bend towards the side with the larger index of refraction. The change in the the index of refraction is not the same for different colors, each color will bend at a different rate, causing the white laser beam to spread out into its red green and blue components. // Gradient-index (GRIN) optics bend and split laser light in the lab of University of Rochester Optical Engineering Professor Duncan Moore August 14, 2014. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

A rainbow forms over Cutler Union at the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery June 24, 2014. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Sereniti Jackson plays with a parachute. // Student participants engage in Health Hero Time during Horizons at Warner, a six-week summer enrichment program that engages K–8 Rochester City School District students at University of Rochester's Warner School of Education are pictured August 3, 2017. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Quantum dots fluoresce in a range of colors under UV light in the lab of University of Rochester Professor of Chemistry Todd D. Krauss in Hutchison Hall December 4, 2017. Krauss and his graduate student, Leah Frenette, have described the underlying mechanisms involved in producing quantum dots, including their discovery that the safer, more controllable compounds now used to produce a widely used class of quantum dots decompose during the process into the same highly toxic compounds used in their initial production 30 years ago. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

**COMPOSITE OF MULTIPLE IMAGES** Maria Castaño, a second year PhD Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics in Evolutionary Biology Associate Professor Albert Uy’s lab, analyzes feathers of various flamed-rump tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) species, collected in her native Colombia, using a spectrophotometer to measure the reflectance of the colors present in the feather pigments to determine how the species adapt and evolve over time, in Hutchison Hall April 5, 2022. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Optics student Jeanne Lyse Mugeni '21 is a Xerox Research Fellow working in the lab of Kenneth Marshall, a senior research engineer at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, photographed July 11, 2019. Mugeni is using polymer cholesteric liquid crystal (PCLC) flakes suspended in silicone oils (pictured) of various viscosities to visualize velocity gradients in an air stream directed across a metal surface. These suspended PCLC flakes reflect light at different wavelengths in the visible spectrum depending on the angle at which they are illuminated and viewed. This temperature-insensitive combination could be used to visualize airflow patterns over a surface, such as the wing of an aircraft. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Graduate Student in the Plasma and Ultrafast Physics Group Sara Bucht is reflected in a grating used in research in her lab at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics December 6, 2018. THe smaller grating in front was used by Nobel prize winner Donna Strickland in her research at the LLE in the 1980s. Bucht is using CPA to make a novel laser that will be used for laser-plasma amplifiers. Laser-plasma amplifiers could lead to a paradigm shift in short-pulse laser amplification (much like CPA did 30 years ago) and provide the enabling technology for achieving intensities necessary for strong field quantum electrodynamics research (potentially the next graduate student project to be recognized by the Nobel committee) // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

University of Rochester student leader Delvin J. Moody '18 is pictured in the Interfaith Chapel April 23, 2018. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

University of Rochester assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy Ranga Dias holds an array containing diamond anvil cells used to compress and alter the properties of hydrogen rich materials in his lab in Hopeman Hall February 2, 2021. Dias' goal is to create novel quantum materials such as superconductors with a critical temperature at or near room temperature. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Paul Burgett, University of Rochester Vice President and General Secretary, Senior Advisor to the President; Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is pictured in the Wells Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library September 15, 2014. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Alan Hurwitz, outgoing president of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, is photographed in the school's $4.5 million CSD Student Development Center, which he helped open in 2005 on December 11, 2009. Hurwitz will be taking over as president of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. next month.

Sculptor Wendell Castle prepares "Unicorn Family", a group of cast iron chairs, table and lamp, for installation at the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery Centennial Sculpture Garden at his studio in Scottsville, NY May 14, 2013. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Xi-Cheng Zhang, director of the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics April 12, 2012. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Fran Weisberg '75, new president and CEO of United Way of Greater Rochester, photographed in her office September 30, 2015. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Nile Blunt, the McPherson Director of Academic Programs at the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery is photographed June 3, 2022. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

M. Ehsan Hoque, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is pictured in Wegmans Hall June 27, 2017. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Andrés Arocho ’24, a political science major from San Juan, Puerto Rico, photographed on Eastman Quad April 12, 2023. Arocho has been selected to receive a Truman Scholarship—the premier scholarship for aspiring public service leaders in the United States. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Herbert Smith, 3rd trumpet Rochester Philharmonic and Trumpet Instructor, Eastman School of Music, is pictured in Work Atrium and Kodak Hall Lobby June 28, 2017. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

University of Rochester associate professor of art Allen Topolski is pictured with his installation, “A Common Inculcation.” at PLAY/ GROUND, an immersive art exhibition featuring 29 artists at the former high school in Medina, NY October 12, 2018. // Photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

University of Rochester senior anthropology/philosophy student Dan Brooks, pictured at the water towers near Cobbs Hill Park April 27, 2010, received an undergraduate anthropology research grant to put together a paper on graffiti, "Canned Style: The Evolution of FUA and Meanings of Graffiti in Rochester, NY". //photo: J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester