The college's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) houses two of the world's most influential high-vitality and high-force lasers, OMEGA and OMEGA EP (augmented execution). The Institute of Optics, established in 1929, was the first instructive program exclusively for optics in the United States. The Memorial Art Gallery houses an eighteenth century Italian Baroque organ, the main full-size obsolescent Italian organ in North America.
The University of Rochester contends in NCAA Division III sports and the school mascot is the Yellowjacket.Established as "a foundation of the most elevated request" and guided by the witticism Meliora or Ever Better, the University of Rochester will help illuminate the best difficulties of the 21st century by:
Quickening our advancement as a universal pioneer in sciences, designing, sociologies, wellbeing science, business, and music. Engaging our understudies to satisfy their scholastic and expert interests in a University that is various, inviting, and comprehensive for all understudies, employees, and staff. Making imaginative associations among instruction, humanities, music, the sociologies, science, designing, and wellbeing science.
Fortifying backing for an element staff committed to instructing, coaching, exploration, clinical consideration, and the inventive and performing expressions. Serving our group of graduated class and companions through innovative projects that improve their deep rooted association with the University and that extend our aggregate commitments to the world.