The University of Rochester's success in research excellence is demonstrated through its plethora of research centers. Many undergraduate and graduate students work intimately with dedicated faculty and staff to continue innovation and learning. To learn more about undergraduate opportunities visit the undergraduate research website. Graduate students who are interested in specific research opportunities should speak with their graduate advisor.
Please visit each research center's website for more information.
RCBU laboratories are advancing the use of ultrasound in clinical diagnosis and discovering new therapeutic applications of ultrasound in medicine and biology through the collaborative expertise of engineers, physicians, basic scientists, and clinicians.
Visit the Biomedical Ultrasound Website
CCQS is a collaboration of researchers from a range of disciplines across URochester, pooling skills and resources to push the frontiers of the field of quantum and classical coherence. CCQS also enables practical applications within the areas of optical science and optical engineering.
Visit the CCQS website
CEIS promotes economic development in the greater Rochester region across the state. The center primarily focuses on supporting optics, photonics, and imaging, and creates pathways for university researchers to directly collaborate with local industries.
Visit the CEIS Website
CXR explores frontier virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and everything in between. CXR serves as a hub to connect the University’s experts in optics, computing, data science, neuroscience, education, the humanities, and other related fields to focus on AR/VR research and applications.
Visit the CXR website
CeFO is a joint industry-government-University cooperative research center where research is done in a pre-competitive environment. This collaboration allows the center to create compact, affordable, and performant optical systems.
Visit the Freeform Optics Website
An NSF Physics Frontiers Center, the Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures brings together researchers from MIT, Princeton, the Universities of California at Berkeley and Davis, the University at Buffalo, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Visit the CMAP Website
Integrated into our evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem, CMTI provides a collaborative environment between the Medical Center, the Hajim School, and industry partners—facilitating the translation of multidisciplinary research to product development to improve patient care.
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Researchers in the Center for Visual Science are at the forefront in developing advanced scientific techniques with the conviction that progress in vision science requires the coordinated efforts of scientists with very different skills.
Visit the CVS Website
The Center of Excellence in Data Science supports New York businesses through data science methods and tools that solve challenges and deliver critical insights. It is funded by NYSTAR and housed in the Goergen Institute for Data Science.
Visit the CoE Website
GIDS-AI is the center for interdisciplinary data science research at the University of Rochester. GIDS-AI brings faculty from across the University of Rochester together with the common goal of pursuing interdisciplinary data science research opportunities.
Visit the GIDS-AI Website
The institute is dedicated to the study of fundamental and applied High-Energy-Density science, including undergraduate and graduate coursework and experimental and theoretical research.
Visit the IMAXED Website
The Integrated Nanosystems Center offers a unique set of nanofabrication tools for lithography, deposition, etch and characterization. URnano also offers training for faculty, students, and outside researchers to become certified in the use of these tools.
Visit the URnano Website
As a center for the investigation of the interaction of intense radiation with matter, LLE is a unique national resource for research and education in the science and technology of fusion energy, laser materials and technologies, and high-energy-density phenomena.
Visit the LLE Website
SoundSpace unites URochester’s renowned expertise in music, audio engineering, and related disciplines to create a leading hub for research, education, and public engagement in which to explore the dynamic interplay between music, sound, and technological innovation.
Visit the SoundSpace website
TraCe-bMPS develops and applies chip-based models of healthy and diseased human tissue. These multicellular models enable reductionist studies of disease mechanisms and are increasingly valued in the discovery and regulatory phases of drug development.
Visit the TraCe-bMPS website
The UR Health Lab is a multidisciplinary collaboration that leverages cloud-based computing and analytics, multifunction sensors, 3D imaging and modeling, and virtual and augmented reality technologies to solve modern day challenges in medicine.
Visit the UR Health Lab