EMAIL RESUME TO HANNAH SWERBENSKI at hswerben@ur.rochester.edu BY SEPT 6 2023 (no cover letter required). Project PROMISE is a study examining the efficacy of Child Parent Psychotherapy for improving mental health and parenting among pregnant people, especially people with trauma histories (see more here: https://www.psych.rochester.edu/MHFC/transform/transform-research/). To qualify for the study, participants must live in the greater Rochester area and come from low-income backgrounds. Research Interns will be trained in behavioral coding of parent-child interactions. This involves watching videotapes of parents interacting with their babies and systematically rating the parent's behaviors. There are weekly team meetings, but otherwise your work in the lab is flexible and can be completed on your own schedule. **Students can receive course credit for their work in PSYC395** **Gain mentorship experience and professional connections to Mt. Hope Family Center** **Gain research experience for future employment and graduate school!**

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. Contact: stephanie.ashenfelder@rochester.edu for more information. Weekly meetings with the DSL and faculty members will take place during the semester.

This program, organized by the Center for Health and Technology (CHeT), is designed to offer quality, interdisciplinary experiences and to better prepare students for the next step in their research-related path. The program is an unpaid internship for the spring semester that includes, but is not limited to, building a partnership with an experienced clinical research coordinator, gaining hands-on research experience, learning valuable skills in grant writing, resume building, and protocol design, as well as advancing personal and professional development. This is a four credit semester-long internship with the potential for in-person responsibilities. However, exceptional students with interest may continue working at CHeT after the program’s conclusion. We welcome applications from students of all academic backgrounds, such as biology, public health, engineering, finance, computer science, and more; anyone interested in clinical research and the intersection of health and technology will find value in this program! Previous interns have taken on responsibilities like market research, data entry and management, attending team meetings, and programming with REDCap. One of the strongest assets of this program is the abundance of mentorship available to students. Each intern will be paired with a clinical research mentor. They will also have opportunities to learn from other members of the CHeT Team, and senior leaders at CHeT. Our staff come from various cultural and educational backgrounds and they each contribute to the work being done at CHeT in unique ways. This puts students in a position to gain valuable knowledge from a multitude of people and perspectives. In addition to hands-on work alongside the CHeT Team, REAL program students will complete a brief curriculum designed to cover clinical trial conduct and procedures. By the end of the semester, our students will leave with confidence in their clinical research experiences and will have gained critical skills in research design and implementation as well as professionalism. Please note this program is not a wet lab and is designed for students from all academic backgrounds to take part in groundbreaking clinical research. To apply, please fill out this form: https://is.gd/CHeTREALprogram

We're on a mission to get every undergraduate involved in research. AURA is a platform that makes research more accessible by providing an easy way to find and apply to on campus research opportunities. We strive to be accessible, convenient, simple and fast, so if you see something that doesn't live up to those values, please let us know by emailing hello@joinaura.us.

Thank you for your interest in working in the Briggs lab at URMC! We are a vision research lab and detailed information about ongoing lab projects can be found at our lab webpage here: briggsneurolab.urmc.edu Positions begin in the summer or fall. Please note that positions for the 2023-24 academic year have already been filled. At this time, we are NOT accepting applications until March 2024. If you are interested in a position starting summer 2024 or Fall 2024, please apply in March 2024. Undergraduates working in the Briggs lab do not receive a salary. However, Dr. Briggs supports applications for course credit and/or paid internships (e.g., BCS summer internship, offered through the university).

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, 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

The Wojtovich Lab has two openings for undergraduate laboratory assistants. In this position as a laboratory assistant the individual will be responsible for general lab maintenance duties. These would include but not be limited to: washing labware, autoclaving, properly storing clean labware, racking tips, making buffers, maintaining logs of safety procedures (e.g., a weekly check of eye washes), maintaining our data bases of reagents and supplies, etc. The job is posted on the Jobs board and please apply through the jobs board portal Job ID:25178 Laboratory assistant $15/hour 10-15 hours per week

The Varble Lab studies the viruses that infect bacteria, bacteriophage. Bacteriophages are inextricably linked to the bacteria they infect, shaping their life cycle, pathogenicity, and genomes. We study how these viruses infect bacteria and how bacteria defend against these infections, with a focus on the adaptive bacterial immune response, the CRISPR-Cas system. As bacteria have increasingly gained resistance to antibiotics, bacteriophage have also been explored as an alternative approach to treating infections, termed phage therapy. Staphylococcus aureus is an important human pathogen of great concern due to its ability to rapidly evolve resistance to current antibiotics. A current focus of the lab is identifying novel phages that can infect S. aureus and characterizing their potential as therapeutics.

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.