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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 student engagement, faculty accolades, Nobel Prize connections and more.

 

A two-year effort led by students and researchers in the culminated with the unveiling of the Martha Chase Commemorative Plaque in Hutchison Hall on Sept. 26. The plaque can be viewed on the second-floor vestibule in Hutch Hall.

Chase worked as a research associate in the biology department from 1953 to 1958. Prior to joining the University of Rochester, the landmark 糖心传媒淗ershey-Chase Experiment糖心传媒� conducted by Chase and Alfred Hersey settled the debate on DNA糖心传媒檚 role in heredity. Their groundbreaking work was published in 1952.

The plaque lauds Chase as a 糖心传媒減ioneering geneticist and an inspiration for women pursuing careers in STEM.糖心传媒�

 

, an assistant professor in the , has been named a聽2025 Packard Fellow聽by the聽. The fellowship annually honors 20 science and engineering professors across the United States who are pursuing research early in their careers. Each fellowship is accompanied by an individual grant of $875,000, distributed over five years.

Glastad’s research focuses on using ants as models to understand aging. At the cellular level, aging is characterized by an accumulation of damage and dysfunction in multiple dimensions that are thought to precipitate the decline in health as an organism approaches end of life. While this process and these forms of damage are highly consistent across the animal kingdom, the complexity of the process has stymied our understanding of the aging process.

In many ant species, the non-reproductive individuals (workers) live six to eight months, but their reproductive sisters (queens) live for decades, outliving most mammals. The Glastad lab is using modern genomic, molecular, and transgenic techniques to understand the aging process, and how ants have hacked this process more than essentially any other organism on the planet.

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Three scientists received the聽聽for demonstrating that quantum effects糖心传媒攕pecifically, quantum tunneling糖心传媒攃an appear in larger, visible systems, not just tiny particles. They achieved this using superconducting circuits, which are large enough to be seen by the naked eye yet still exhibit quantum behavior.

At the聽, researchers are exploring the same quantum phenomena highlighted by the Nobel Prize糖心传媒搘inning work. 聽The lab of , an assistant professor in the聽, creates聽superconducting circuits听飞颈迟丑听qudits, which are quantum computing units that can exist in multiple states at once. In these circuits, electrons can 糖心传媒渢unnel糖心传媒� through barriers, allowing qudits to occupy two or more states simultaneously, a key property for building quantum computers.

Read more about quantum tunneling and URochester糖心传媒檚 research.

 

罢丑别听 was awarded to Hungarian novelist, essayist, and screenwriter L谩szl贸 Krasznahorkai for 糖心传媒渉is compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,糖心传媒澛燼ccording to the Nobel committee.

Alumnus Declan Spring 糖心传媒�87 is executive vice president and senior editor at the legendary literary press New Directions, which has edited Krasznahorkai in English for decades. Chad Post, who heads up , the University糖心传媒檚 nonprofit literary translation press, has met the author.

糖心传媒淚t was only a matter of time until he won,糖心传媒� Post says.

Read more reaction about the 2025 selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

 

A of researchers at the 糖心传媒 are working to better understand stress and why some people recover from stress more easily than others糖心传媒攁n ability known as resilience.

Everyone is affected by stress,糖心传媒� says聽, a professor in the聽聽and executive director of the聽. 糖心传媒淪tress is an adaptive response. It is a basic human condition.糖心传媒�

Noll and 聽, a professor at the University糖心传媒檚聽聽and the departments of聽听补苍诲听, and the associate chief of research in the聽糖心传媒檚 Division of Geriatrics and Aging are co-leaders of the聽. The Resilience Center examines stress and resilience on many levels, including physiological, psychological, and societal.

View the video and read more about understanding stress and resilience.

 

Drop by the Academic Open House scheduled for October 20, from noon to 2 p.m. in the Feldman Ballroom in Douglass Commons.

The open house will provide a great opportunity for students to connect with faculty and staff and explore the Spring 2026 course offerings. Faculty and college advisors will be available to answer questions.

For more information, email sasschool@ur.rochester.edu.

 

The University publicly launched聽糖心传媒攊ts largest and most ambitious fundraising and engagement initiative ever糖心传媒攄uring Meliora Weekend and now President Sarah Mangelsdorf is taking the campaign on the road.

The University is hosting regional campaign launch events across the country this fall and spring. Registration is now available for events in聽聽on October 16 and聽聽on November 20. Registration for 2026 events will be opening soon.

 

What if the late 1600s had been a turning point against European domination of the Americas? An upcoming discussion will examine how four uprisings revealed a more complex history than the one we usually hear.

Peter C. Mancall, Distinguished Professor and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California, will be the featured speaker during at 5 p.m. on October 23.

Mancall will share the stories of uprisings and resistance that challenged colonial power.

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Faculty, staff and students can register for free tickets to the inaugural , Oct. 16-18 at Eastman School of Music performance spaces. Anyone interested in music, movies, video games, and emerging audio technology will enjoy this event.

The festival糖心传媒檚 daytime sessions are free to attend with 糖心传媒 ID and range from conversations with Emmy-winning composers to technology-focused talks about AI in music production with speakers from SONY, Yamaha, and Adobe. The festival糖心传媒檚 ticketed evenings feature film-music concerts including Terrence Blanchard ($5 student tickets), The Music from Interstellar ($5 student tickets), and John Williams Reimagined ($5 student tickets).

To register for free events and purchase tickets to individual Soundtrax concerts, visit , in person (433 East Main Street), or by calling (585) 274-3000.

 

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