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STORY OF THE WEEK: For a long time, it seemed as if Scott Avedisian was destined to be mayor in perpetuity of Warwick. He could be counted on to win re-election as a genial GOP moderate, even amid …
Lisa Baldelli-Hunt will soon reclaim her old post as mayor of Woonsocket — and looks unlikely to be ousted from office again.
Two new Rochester fellows of the National Academy of Inventors take aim at transformative discoveries in the world of optics.
University of Rochester “Image” is everything in the $20 billion market for AR/VR glasses. Consumers are looking for glasses that are compact and easy to wear, delivering high-quality imagery with socially acceptable optics that don’t look like “bug eyes.” University of Rochester researchers at the Institute of Optics have come up with a novel technology to deliver those attributes with maximum effect. In a paper in Science Advances, they describe imprinting freeform optics with a nanophotonic optical element called “a metasurface.” The metasurface is a veritable forest of tiny,...
February 11, 2021 Internationally recognized pioneer in vision science and its applications is named the next director of one of the University’s most highly regarded research centers. (Courtesy of Susana Marcos) Susana Marcos, an internationally recognized expert in the optics of the eye and the interactions of light with the retina, will become the David R. Williams Director of the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester. Her appointment will take effect July 1. The named position is endowed with a $2 million gift from John and Barbara Bruning. John, a member of the U...