The expectation for research students is that you collaborate with faculty mentors and the digital scholarship lab to catalogue and construct an archive of stories and art collected as part of the ADK Climate Stories Project. This research is for credit. This project can be done remotely. Questions contact: stephanie.ashenfelder@rochester.edu for more information. Weekly meetings with the Digital Scholarship Lab and faculty members will take place during the semester.

The Materials Chemistry Section of the Optical Materials Technologies group at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics has an opening for an undergraduate student to participate in computational chemistry modeling and design of new liquid crystal (LC) materials for high-peak-power applications using the High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster at LLE. The student would begin full-time work during the summer, with continuing part-time work during the academic year. The ideal candidate would be a student working towards a BS or BS/MS degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering that has a working knowledge of the Linux operating system and some experience with using molecular modeling software on any computing platform. The student is expected to have completed or are completing coursework at the sophomore level, including organic chemistry. Research topic areas to be addressed include energy-state and conformational-state modeling of LC materials, , Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) modeling of electronic transitions contributing to laser damage in LC materials and other physical properties (refractive index, birefringence, and dielectric properties) for applications in polarization control and beam shaping/modulation for laser applications. Project activities include 3-D graphical design of molecular structures and inputting data to the computing cluster (40%), monitoring the progress of jobs in progress (10%) , evaluating results and modification of parameters to overcome problems on subsequent job submissions (30%), and compilation of results in both 3-D graphical and tabular formats.

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Our research interests are in the field of cyclic nucleotide signaling and cardiovascular biology, with a particular focus on cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) that catalyze the hydrolysis of cyclic nucleotide second messengers (cAMP and cGMP). cAMP and cGMP regulate a wide variety of cardiac functions, from the short-term effects on myocyte contraction/ relaxation to long-term effects such as gene expression and structural remodeling. To identify the PDE isozymes altered in disease hearts, we have performed initial screening for PDEs that are altered in diseased hearts. The expression of a number of PDE isozymes is changed: some are up-regulated and some are down-regulated. The ongoing and future studies are aimed to determine the role and mechanism of these altered PDEs in cardiac remodeling and dysfunction through genetic and pharmacological approaches. To learn more about our research visit: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/cardiovascular-research-institute/research/yan.aspx. We are seeking undergraduate students who are interested in cardiovascular biology and molecular biology. The student will have the opportunity to become fully involved with all the steps of research being completed in our laboratory, often working directly with Dr. Vivian Si Chen. The student can attend weekly group zoom meeting.

A research assistant position is available in the Active Perception Laboratory (https://aplab.bcs.rochester.edu) in the Department Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the university of Rochester. Research in the lab focuses on understanding the interplay between eye movements and vision using a combination of behavioral, computational, high-resolution retinal imaging and evoked potentials (EEG) techniques (https://aplab.bcs.rochester.edu/facilities.html#). Responsibilities will depend on the applicant interests and background. They could include any of the following: experimental data collection with human subjects with eyetracking and/or EEG, implementation of experimental protocols, contribution to the development of novel eyetracking techniques (for candidates with an Optics and /or Engineering background), analysis of behavioral data, collection and analysis of high-resolution retinal images, alignment and calibration of optical devices for eyetracking and retinal imaging (for candidates with an Optics background). Quantitative skills and some computer programming skills are desirable. This position is ideal for someone interested in obtaining experience in vision and neuroscience research, and in improving quantitative and computational skills, with the goal of applying to graduate school.

The primary focus of Dr. Gail Johnson’s research group is on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration. The lab has a longstanding interest in the pathogenic processes in Alzheimer disease, and more recently in stroke and spinal cord injury (SCI). For their studies they use a wide variety of different approaches from in vitro enzyme assays with purified proteins, to studies in whole animals. This broad-based approach allows them to translate what they learn about a process or signaling pathway at the molecular level to the in vivo situation. Currently all the positions in my lab are filled. However, when positions become available I will post them on AURA.

The En-Ability Lab is about enabiling, enhancing, and empowering people. Our research areas cover accessibility and HCI, more specifically we investigate topics on design, immersive technologies, and networking. Our lab’s mission is to foster a collaborative environment that values diversity—not only diversity in the topics we research, but also the diversity in our research team, and the communities our research is made to serve.

The Porosoff group focuses on developing new catalysts for upgrading C1 and C2 resources (CO2, CO, CH4, C2H6) for efficient energy storage and low-cost production of plastics, chemicals and fuels. Understanding the relationships between chemical reactivity and catalyst electronic/structure properties is extremely important for developing catalysts that exploit particular reaction pathways. This approach requires controlled synthesis of catalysts combined with in situ techniques and theoretical calculations. In particular, target areas of research are three types of catalytic reactions for improved shale gas utilization and lowering CO2 emissions: (I) Catalyst development for CO2 hydrogenation, (II) Selective synthesis of light olefins from CO and H2 and (III) Catalytic dehydrogenation of light alkanes to olefins by CO2. Experimental work combines a mix of catalyst synthesis and characterization, reactor studies and in situ spectroscopy.

[Computer Vision]: recognition of objects, scenes, people, locations, actions, and events from images and videos [Vision and Language]: description and explanation of visual content; language-based search, retrieval, and generation [Social media data mining]: prediction, nowcasting, forecasting, profiling, and recommendation using open-source data [Machine Learning]: learning with large-scale loosely labeled web data, cross-domain learning, few-shot learning [Health informatics]: healthcare and wellness analytics using text and visual data; surgical video analysis [Pervasive computing]: context-aware applications; multimodal inference from multiple sensors [Media experience]: multimodal reliving; aesthetics, emotion, sentiment, and influence of multimedia [Note]: Undergraduate students should seek research opportunities after having done well in the related courses (240/440 Data Mining and/or 249/449 Machine Vision).

We uses recordings of ground vibrations from seismic sensors across the globe combined with high-performance computing to build high-resolution images of the sub-surface interior of the Earth.

We are a multidisciplinary group of scientists, engineers, and physicians working to bring a new ultrasound-based medical imaging platform to the clinic. Most conventional ultrasound systems only use reflected waves to create images of the tissue. This approach can be limited in its capability to quantitatively characterize tissue. Ultrasound tomography uses both the waves reflected by AND transmitted through tissue to fully characterize the material properties of the tissue. Specifically, we observe that these material properties distort the ultrasound wave as it passes through the tissue. These same distortions allow us to interrogate and recover the material properties within the tissue of interest. Our group integrates the latest advances in hardware development and algorithm design to translate these ideas to a clinically relevant imaging modality. We are looking for highly motivated students for both hardware development and algorithm design. Interested students should have a strong interest in some or all of the following categories: acoustics, numerical modeling, signal processing, inverse problems, waveform inversion, computational imaging, and/or imaging hardware design. We expect students to come with a background in MATLAB (or an equivalent language). C/C++ experience (especially CUDA) would be an additional bonus as we also plan to accelerate existing algorithms using GPUs.

Fluid mixing is both beautiful and devilishly difficult to understand, predict, or control. Our research team, led by Prof. Douglas H. Kelley, studies how flows and the materials they carry change over space and time, primarily with application to cerebrospinal fluid flow in the brain and to liquid metals technologies. Brain cerebrospinal fluid flows through the recently-discovered glymphatic system, which evacuates metabolic wastes to prevent diseases like Alzheimer's, but can also malfunction in situations like stroke or traumatic brain injury. Fluid flow affects the performance of liquid metal batteries, a grid-scale storage technology, and the efficiency of aluminum manufacture, which uses 3% of worldwide electricity. Our research team studies these problems with a combination of experiments, simulations, and theory. Undergraduate researchers work in collaboration with each other and/or with PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, building skills and taking creative ownership of their own efforts. Undergraduate researchers on the team frequently coauthor peer-reviewed journal articles and present at international research conferences. Valuable skills for undergraduate applicants include -- but are not limited to -- coding, machining / fabrication, computer simulation / drawing, and writing. We value interpersonal diversity and encourage all to apply. Students need not be upperclassmen to apply. More information is available on the team website.

The Rochester Center for Research on Children and Families seeks to better understand children’s adaptation and maladaptation within the context of family relationships and processes. Informed by the developmental psychopathology emphasis on risk and resilience, our work is focused on elucidating the costs and benefits of children’s specific patterns of responding to family processes. The center currently houses several projects, including several large scale, multi-method, multi-level longitudinal research studies funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Psychology lab focused on the study of relationships and well-being.

We do research on past climate, humans, forests using the environmental information stored in tree rings. Our latest project is exploring how the unstable isotope 14C can help us understand past solar storms using the wood stored in ancient trees.

The primary focus of the PURE lab at the University of Rochester is to develop novel, hybrid, and ultrasound-based diagnostic methods, and define the clinical utility of the developed technologies as it applies to detection, diagnosis, and therapy of various pathologies. Our ultimate goal is to help physicians and patients by providing more accurate and multi-parametric information about diseases that can help: to detect pathologies at their early stages of development to more accurately locate the diseased tissue to better plan for individualized therapy to monitor the outcome of the therapeutic procedures These developments will serve to improve the diagnosis and treatment guidance of high impact diseases, such as cancer. Almost every project in the lab utilizes ultrasound imaging. Ultrasound imaging (aka sonography) is the most-widely available medical imaging modality in clinical practice due to its notable advantages, including using non-ionizing energy, providing real-time information, portability, and low cost. However, it is limited to imaging tissue morphology and structure, without any functional, cellular, or molecular information. That is why our lab explores a newly born modality known as "Photoacoustic Imaging". Photoacoustic imaging utilizes lasers to complement ultrasound imaging, providing functional and molecular information to the morphological images obtained from ultrasound. Our research team works closely with the School of Medicine. This collaboration has helped us to better identify the real clinical needs and direct our efforts to overcome clinical limitations. We are closely working with several industry-leading imaging companies, such as Verasonics and Siemens, to implement our technologies on existing clinical devices. We believe this could be a key to enable faster clinical translation of the developed methods.

Paid part-time lab manager position in the Active Perception Lab in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Typical Duties Managing petty cash: refill the small money bank every day. Once a year, report any taxable payments to the university. Purchasing lab equipment: monitor the purchase log, submit purchase requests to admin, keep track of orders, and physically carry all deliveries to the lab. Research subjects recruitment and advertising: post flyer ads on campus on a regular basis. Connect the prospective subjects to lab personnel. Onboarding: onboarding new lab members. Internal Review Board (IRB): ensure compliance with the IRB and Human Subject Protection Review Board using the ClickIRB platform system. Adding and removing people from the list approved by IRB. Modify IRB documents (study protocol, consent form, screening script) as necessary. Complete a Continuing review that is required every year. Eyetracker maintenance: assist in the execution of maintenance tests on lab experimental equipment. Website and social media: update lab website and twitter. Lab meeting scheduling: organize the lab calendar for weekly lab meetings. Qualifications Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel. Ability to log information on various platforms (Notion, ClickIRB, RedCap). Organized, responsible and proactive.

Typical Duties Managing petty cash: refill the small money bank every day. Once a year, report any taxable payments to the university. Purchasing lab equipment: monitor the purchase log, submit purchase requests to admin, keep track of orders, and physically carry all deliveries to the lab. Research subjects recruitment and advertising: post flyer ads on campus on a regular basis. Connect the prospective subjects to lab personnel. Onboarding: onboarding new lab members. Internal Review Board (IRB): ensure compliance with the IRB and Human Subject Protection Review Board using the ClickIRB platform system. Adding and removing people from the list approved by IRB. Modify IRB documents (study protocol, consent form, screening script) as necessary. Complete a Continuing review that is required every year. Eyetracker maintenance: assist in the execution of maintenance tests on lab experimental equipment. Website and social media: update lab website and twitter. Lab meeting scheduling: organize the lab calendar for weekly lab meetings. Qualifications Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel. Ability to log information on various platforms (Notion, ClickIRB, RedCap). Organized, responsible and proactive.

The LLE Undergraduate Education Program enables students to engage in mission-critical science and engineering. The unique work opportunities the LLE has to offer are well suited to provide training, while helping to fill the critical future workforce needs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at all levels, including operators, technicians, engineers and scientists. Undergraduate students pursuing degree programs in related science and engineering fields are welcome to apply. Laboratory for Laser Energetics Internships: Workforce, Research, and Career-Building Opportunities Full-time, Part-Time, Co-Op, REU, and Summer Opportunities Deadline for Summer 2024 Applications: February 15th To Apply: Please send your resume to Laura Kappy, Undergraduate Education Program Director (lkap@lle.rochester.edu) or upload through AURA. Thank you!

Our group develops the algorithmic foundation of data science. We design, analyze, and implement provably efficient and reliable algorithms for solving a general class of problems in data science. The research scope broadly includes algorithms for optimization, sampling, and games. We aim to apply the algorithms to fascinating areas such as operations research, machine learning, and economics. ************************** ************************** We are looking for a senior student who will graduate in 2024 and seriously considers pursuing a PhD in Fall 2024. ************************** **************************

I am looking for undergraduate and graduate students interested in working on various topics related to computational social science and data science. My current interests include emotion detection/quantification, analysis of visual content and videos, analysis of interactions between people/behavioral patterns, social media, political polarization, and developing methods for social sciences. If you are interested in working with me on a research project (e.g., as an independent study student or part-time researcher), please fill out the form in the following link: https://www.cantaycaliskan.net/research-assistance

The primary focus of Dr. Richard Libby’s research group is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying glaucomatous neurodegeneration. Interests in the lab include investigating how neurons die and investigating how glial cells in the retina contribute to neuronal death. Genetic mouse models allow for questioning into how specific genes in different cell types play a role in neuronal death. Further, techniques such as immunohistochemistry, genotyping, and sectioning are used regularly as cellular outcome measures. All openings are currently filled. Undergraduates interested in joining for future semesters should email graduate student Sarah Yablonski (sarah_yablonski@urmc.rochester.edu). Preference will be given to candidates interested in a long-term research position.

We prioritize creative engagement with underrepresented and marginalized communities around the world to address health priorities, often through technology and human-centered design. We view humans in their ecological context, understanding that social, biological, environmental, and other factors interact to impact health and illness, and that structural barriers often preclude ethical engagement of indigenous, marginalized, and underrepresented peoples in the scientific enterprise. Our lab values deep inclusion, respect, and liberation among its members and partners; we strive to prioritize the voices of underrepresented and intersectional identities in our work. The work of our lab reflects the integration of qualitative, quantitative, community, and laboratory approaches to science. We are pragmatic, applied, and focused on action. -Global Health, with a special emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, and Global Deaf Health -Perinatal Health, with a special emphasis on social determinants of medical risk in pregnancy and childhood -Technology, in the creation and maintenance of communities of learning, in communication, and to stimulate action Our work crosses boundaries and is transdisciplinary.

AS OF FALL 2023, THE LAB IS *NOT* CURRENTLY ACCEPTING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS. Research in the laboratory investigates the evolution and development of morphology. We’re particularly interested in the interplay of nature and nurture in affecting final adult morphology. We use a variety of approaches including genetics, genomics, and developmental biology. Our study system is the pea aphid. Aphids are remarkable insects, able to produce a variety of morphologies across their complex life cycles that alternate between asexual and sexual development. During the asexual phase, females are often wingless and specialize in the mass production of genetically identical wingless daughters. However, if their host plant becomes too crowded, those same females can switch to producing daughter that have wings as adults so that those daughters can fly away and find better food sources. Thus, winged and wingless females of pea aphids are genetically identical yet morphologically very different. How these alternative morphologies are produced is one of the main questions we address in the lab. During their sexual phase in the fall, pea aphids produce winged and wingless males as well. However, unlike the females the males are not genetically identical and their morphology is not determined by environmental circumstances. Rather, adult male morphology appears to be under the control of a single locus on the X chromosome called aphicarus. Ongoing projects in the lab include: 1. Understanding the male wing dimorphism system. Males are winged and wingless in some species, but monomorphic in others. How has this trait evolved across aphid species? What is the genetic basis of wing dimorphism and is that mechanism the same or different across species? 2. Discovering the molecular mechanisms underlying developmental plasticity in pea aphid asexual females. How does a pea aphid mother sense her environment and pass that information on to her developing embryos? How does the developmental timing of environmental sensitivity differ among aphid species? 3. Investigating genetic variation for the female polyphenism. We’ve observed that aphid lines respond to high density environments differently. How extensive is this variation in nature? What genes underlie this plasticity variation?

Research in our lab is focused on the study of relationships and well-being. We examine how the different ways in which people care and connect with each other impacts personal and relationship well-being. Research assistants' tasks may include the following: behavioral coding of videos, running lab session with participants, and assisting in study construction.