Liquid Crystal Beam Shaping Devices Incorporating Coumarin-Based Photoalignment Layers

Final paper completed as part of the 2010 Summer High School Research Program with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester. Authored by Katherine M. Wegman of Pittsford Mendon High School.</p

Patterned photoresist spacers and photo-induced alignment coatings for liquid crystal waveplates and polarizers

Final paper completed as part of the 2007 Summer High School Research Program with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester. Authored by Jean Gan of Pittsford Sutherland High School.</p

[ presidential election word cloud for Data Bloom 2025-26 ]

This is a data visualization project submitted for the 2025-26 Data Bloom contest at River Campus Libraries.Author's statement: My vizualizations are word clouds of the most used words in all the articles about the presidential election in 2024 (11 vizualizations for 11 pre-election months) minus the names to truly see what issues were relevant then. I got those word clouds by analyzing more than 200,000 news articles.The data was scraped and analyzed from GDELT. It was created using Python with extensions.</p

Implementing a Knowledge Database for Scientific Control Systems

Final paper completed as part of the 2006 Summer High School Research Program with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester. Authored by Daniel Gresh of Wheatland-Chili High School.</p

Magnetic Field Penetration Into a Conducting Hohlraum

Final paper completed as part of the 2012 Summer High School Research Program with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester. Authored by Alec Kirkley of Pittsford Sutherland High School.</p

Experimental Investigation of Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion with Apertured Near Fields

Final paper completed as part of the 2000 Summer High School Research Program with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester. Authored by Mai-fai Fong of Pittsford Sutherland High School.</p

Love Data 2026: Python Essentials

Love Data: Python Essentials was presented via Zoom on Thursday, February 19th as part of Love Data Month 2026.Workshop Description: Learn the foundations of programming using Python in this beginner-friendly workshop. Gain hands-on experience and learn tips to use best practices while coding.The activities for this session will be done in Google Colab and we recommend signing into or creating Google accounts in advance. Alternatively, you can run the files locally on a Jupyter notebook. You would have to pre-install Jupyter for this. Note: you only need to do this if you cannot use a Google account.Due to bandwidth, captions have not been added to the recording yet. However, once captions have been added, the recording will be reuploaded.</p

Data Skills 2026: Excel Efficiency

This webinar was given live on April 13th, 2026 via Zoom as part of the Data Skills 2026 Workshop Series.Description of webinar:Ready to enhance your Excel proficiency? Whether you're looking to unlock the power of Excel or simply brush up on your skills, our Excel Efficiency Workshop is designed for you. Delve into advanced formula applications, data analysis techniques, and master formatting and validation. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your spreadsheet skills and boost your efficiency in handling data!Due to bandwidth captions have not been added to the recording yet. Once captions are added, the recording will be reuploaded. If you desire captions, please let us know, and we will move it to the top of the queue. </p

Abrasion Resistant Anti-Reflective Sol-Gel Coatings

Final paper completed as part of the 2011 Summer High School Research Program with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester. Authored by Madeline Rutan of Penfield High School.</p

Computational Modeling of Azobenzenes for Optically Addressable Liquid Crystal Alignment

Final paper completed as part of the 2014 Summer High School Research Program with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester. Authored by Kyle Xiao of Webster Schroeder High School.</p