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Welcome to the latest SAS in Focus, a newsletter that reports what糖心传媒檚 happening in the School of Arts and Sciences.

In this edition, we糖心传媒檒l spotlight exciting news about major projects, a special talk on quantum, student and faculty accolades and much more.

 

Four new transdisciplinary research centers have been established at the University to address some of the most complex challenges facing humanity. The University will invest $8.5 million to launch the centers. Each of the four centers includes faculty from the School of Arts and Sciences and leverages expertise and knowledge unique to the University of Rochester. The centers were selected after a yearlong, multi-phase proposal process.

Here糖心传媒檚 what you need to know about the projects:

• will receive $4 million over five years. The center will push artistic and technical boundaries while exploring the intersection of music, sound, and technology. The SoundSpace team will focus on developing a best-in-class hub for research, education, performance, and public engagement.
• will receive $2 million over five years. EXTRRA will integrate optics, computing, neuroscience, and education to develop immersive platforms that improve learning, accessibility, and workforce training. Its vision is to reshape how individuals engage with digital and natural environments.
• will receive $2 million over five years. The faculty behind UR鲁C aim to identify the sociocultural factors and other mechanisms that perpetuate stress-related health issues, enabling the development of novel interventions that prevent or reverse those conditions.
• will receive $500,000 over two years. University scientists and engineers hope to advance quantum technologies through light-matter interaction. 聽They will push the frontiers of quantum science and classical coherence while also enabling practical application within optical science and optical engineering.

Read more about the University糖心传媒檚 transdisciplinary research centers and the award process.

 

What happens when you juxtapose futuristic technology with Victorian settings? Find out during public lecture 糖心传媒淨uantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday糖心传媒檚 Tomorrow糖心传媒� at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 26 at Hoyt Hall. The free public lecture will feature , a theoretical quantum physicist at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science in Maryland.

Yunger Halpern糖心传媒檚 lecture is scheduled as part of the Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS). The CQS-12 conference (formerly the Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, CQO), has been held every six years since its inception in 1960.

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The goal of the Fulbright US Student program is to promote mutual understanding and peace between the United States and other nations through educational and cultural exchange. And once again, the University of Rochester is represented in the Fulbright program with six recipients this year.

Congratulations to the recipients, including two School of Arts and Sciences alumni. Isabelle Miranda 糖心传媒�23 BS, BA ( and ) earned a Fulbright grant for an English Teaching Assistantship in Taiwan. Daniel Pyskaty 糖心传媒�25 BS, BA ( and ) earned a Fulbright grant to conduct research at the Institute of German Linguistics at Philipps Universit盲t Marburg.

Read more about this year糖心传媒檚 Fulbright recipients from Rochester.

 

A new study of fire ants, coauthored by , an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences,聽reveals the surprising power of genetics in shaping social organization and group behavior.

In a聽聽published in the聽Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences聽(PNAS), researchers studied minority influence in fire ants糖心传媒攈ighly social insects糖心传媒攁nd discovered a surprising genetic underpinning to the phenomenon. The research offers insights into how social interactions shape individuals and groups.

糖心传媒淥ur research may help us understand how other animals make consensus decisions,糖心传媒� says聽Sasaki.

Read more about the fire ants research and its findings.

 

Christopher Heuer, in the Department of Art and Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies is among the 2025-2026 scholars selected in the 2025/2026 fellowship cycle of the GRI Getty Scholars Program.

The residential fellowship at Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA invites scholars to conduct innovative research in the visual arts and their histories. For 2025/2026 the program theme is Repair.

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One of China糖心传媒檚 first works of science fiction, New Story of the Stone by late Qing author Wu Jianren (1866-1910), is now available in full English translation from Columbia University Press.

Translated by , assistant professor of instruction in Chinese and research assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, the novel is a cutting social satire that catapults Jia Baoyu, protagonist of the beloved 18th-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, into the first decade of the 20th century where he must come to terms with how much China and the world have changed since his own time.

Weber began work on the translation in 2018 to assign a selection for her university course 糖心传媒淲riting Discontentment: Political Turmoil, Social Critique and Civic Responsibility in Late Qing Literature.糖心传媒�

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