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Indeed, it’s the same university that gave us room temperature superconductors.
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Huh? That was University of Utah/Brigham Young University right. That is, if you're referring to Pons and Fleischman.
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Pons and Fleischman was cold fusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
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UofR physic grad that also worked at the LLE here. Agree Rochester schools are underrated (although admittedly a little biased).

At least in the sciences you have access to lots of opportunities you don’t have at bigger name schools.

They set me up in life in a way that I don’t think would have happened elsewhere.

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I had a great time at UR in the early 90’s because they had the most computing hardware per interested student in the country. I was able to relatively quickly work my way up to access to pretty much any system the school owned that I wanted, including the Cray at the LLE.
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As an RIT alum, I tend to agree.
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Agree! Shout out to the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
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RIT is pretty well known as a good school I believe.
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