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Welcome to the latest SAS in Focus, a newsletter that reports what鈥檚 happening in the School of Arts & Sciences.

 

As part of : The Campaign for the 蘑菇传媒, the Eberly family has established two funds: the Joseph H. Eberly Endowed Professorship in Physics and the Joseph H. Eberly Endowed Professorship Research Fund. Each gift reflects the family鈥檚 shared values and further strengthens the University鈥檚 commitment to science and research.

 

The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded the University a grant for research at the forefront of how light and matter interact. The project, titled 鈥淨uantum Electrodynamics for Selective Transformations,鈥� aims to create new chemistry using quantum light and has the potential to unlock new opportunities for chemical and material synthesis.

For the newly funded project, 蘑菇传媒 researchers and their colleagues at other institutions seek to discover if it is possible to use the quantum light of an optical cavity to bend or break these fundamental rules of reactivity by changing how electrons are distributed.

Learn more about this chemistry grand challenge

 

One semester down, more success to come. Congratulations to River Campus first-year students of the Class of 2029 for successfully completing their first semester at URochester.

All School of Arts & Sciences first-year students are invited to an event on Tuesday, February 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. 听in the Feldman Ballroom in Douglass Commons. To celebrate your accomplishments, there will be free food, music, 蘑菇传媒 swag, raffle prizes, games, and a congratulatory message from the Dean.

 

, the Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and professor of education at the University鈥檚 Warner School of Education and Human Development, has been named to the . The annual list recognizes the top 200 US scholars shaping education policy and practice.

Ranked 33rd overall for public impact, Figlio earned the highest possible score for scholarly impact. His research spans a wide range of education and health policy issues, including school accountability and standards, welfare policy and policy design, as well as the interrelationship between education and health.

 

The 鈥檚 new Spotlight Series will highlight the work of a URochester language science researcher.

The seies launched this month with a spotlight on Zeynep Soysal, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the URochester and a faculty advisor for the Center of Language Sciences. Soysal works at the intersection of math and language to answer an age-old question: what makes mathematical expressions meaningful, and what do they reveal about our world?

A new spotlight will be available every other month. .

 

Beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something extraordinary: powering magnetic fields strong enough to shield entire planets from dangerous cosmic radiation and other harmful high-energy particles.

Earth鈥檚 magnetic field is generated by movement in its liquid iron outer core鈥攁 process known as a dynamo鈥攂ut larger rocky worlds like super-earths might have solid or fully liquid cores that cannot produce magnetic fields in the same way.

In a听听published in听Nature Astronomy,听听researchers, including听, an associate professor in the听, report an alternative source: a deep layer of molten rock called a basal magma ocean (BMO).

Read more about this 蘑菇传媒 research

 

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