University of Rochester

WHAT: Introductory remarks by Joel Seligman, University of Rochester president, and Kelly Reed, Monroe County Department of Human Services commissioner, recognizing Mt. Hope Family Center\'s three decades of research and outreach to families struggling with violence and abuse.

By Amber Smith/The Post-Standard University of RochesterScientists at the University of Rochester are researching hearing in old age, using mice.This just in from the University of Rochester: What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with... University of RochesterScientists at the University o...

Exhibition Dates: Now through December 1 University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library: October 2009 Two Halves Gallery presents its first official exhibition at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. The artwork, situated in the ground-level hal

Seymour Schwartz and Karla Linn Merrifield are the winners of the 2009 Andrew Eiseman Writers Award at the University of Rochester. Schwartz\' novel Putting \"America\" on the Map: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States was chosen in th

One of the leading voices of young contemporary Mexican writing, Jorge Volpi, will visit the University of Rochester for a reading and discussion of his latest novel, Season of Ash, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 6:30 p.m. in Rush Rhees Library. The event is being hosted by Open Letter, the Unive

WHO: The University of Rochester\'s \"home team\" of authors and professors in the Department of English will read from their own works in the first Plutzik Series Reading. Professor Jennifer Grotz is the author of Cusp, a winner of the Katherine Bakeless Nason Poe

DATE, TIME, AND PLACE: Thursday, Sept. 24 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the Gowen Room, Wilson Commons, River Campus, University of Rochester WHAT: Three local health care experts will weigh in on legislation currently under review in Washington for reforming the U.S. medical

By Amber Smith(asmith@syracuse.com) Migraine sufferers may have more than skull-splitting pain to worry about. New research based on work from a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester Medical Center indicates the headaches may act like tiny strokes, which leave parts of the brain... Migraine sufferers may have more t...

A prominent optics entrepreneur, a noted medical scientist and medical school dean, and a leading Rochester business executive have joined the University\'s Board of Trustees. John Bruning, the retired president and CEO of Corning Tropel Corp., Dr. Philip A. Pizzo, the dean of Stanford U

Frank P. Buff, emeritus professor in the Department of Chemistry, died in Rochester on July 1, 2009, at the age of 85. Buff was on faculty at the University of Rochester from 1950 until his retirement in 1994. Born in Munich, Germany in 1924, Buff received a Bachelor of Arts degree

Jeffrey Bigham, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Rochester, has been named one of the top 35 researchers in the world under the age of 35 by Technology Review, MIT\'s magazine on science and technology. Bigham will be featured along with the other 34 finalists...

 CA A member of the faculty of the University of Arkansas from 1992 through at least 2006, Chappell completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University and doctoral studies at the University of Rochester. In addition to A Stone of Hope, he is the author ...

Myra Mathis of Rochester was awarded the Francis Price Student Leadership Award from the Office of Minority Student Affairs at the University of Rochester, from which she graduated last month. Kristy Taccone of Rochester was named to the dean's list ...

 NY I was just shell shocked at how much it cost go to college," said Dick, 17, of Bloomfield, who will study chemical engineering at the University of Rochester this fall and received more than $88000 in scholarships. "I didn't want to put a lot of ...

 HI He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Rochester in New York, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Davidson holds a State of Hawaii Real Estate ...

 NY The field is changing so fast, it can make communications seem new to many PR professionals, said Rebecca Jones, a public relations associate with the University of Rochester Medical Center. Jones, 25, was hired by URMC in 2005. ...

Anne Modica of Spencerport was named to the dean's list for the spring semester at the University of Rochester. Other These students graduated last month ... and more »

 NY I was a professor at the institute of optics at the University of Rochester for 20 years, and during that time, I started a company, Rochester Photonic Corp. It was a classic spinoff of university research into commercial applications. ...

 NY This was reflected in her list of target employers, which included Excellus bluecross blueshield, Paychex, Unity Health and University of Rochester. Felder said that Turner could thrive in another large organization, but with her broad skill set of ...

 NY Up for the University of Rochester/Highland Family Medicine, whose staff volunteers raised $940 during the Lilac Festival by selling parking space in the lot of their nearby research building. The money was donated to the Highland Family Medicine ...

 DE Cook concluded her remarks by saying that improving the climate for everybody at the University is a team effort, and that she considers the Trabant Award as an award for the team. Cook is a graduate of the University of Rochester and has a master's ...

 AR New research centers began to spring up — at Harvard, Ohio State, the University of Rochester, and the University of Miami, and one named after the man himself, the Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA. The research flowed quickly, ...

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 NY The University of Rochester softball team (33-12) set a program record for wins. Sophomore shortstop Lindsay Macaluso was named Liberty League Player of the Year, Beth Ameno repeated as Pitcher of the Year and freshman outfielder Kim Grimes was ...

MarketWatch (press release) Ireland holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in Optics from the University of Rochester, and a BS in Physics from the College of the Holy Cross. Ireland has held positions at II-VI, Inc., Corning, Inc., ...

 NY On Friday, the Alzheimer's Association and the Alzheimer's Disease Care, Research and Education program of the University of Rochester School of Medicine will host a 2 pm viewing of portions of the HBO series The Alzheimer's Project. ...

 NY - Luke Rosiak The University of Rochester received more research money from the federal government in fiscal year 2008 than all State University of New York schools combined, and more than four of the eight Ivy League schools, a Democrat and Chronicle review of ...

 MA He has degrees in philosophy from Oxford University and the University of Rochester, in computer science from Harvard University and Rochester Institute of Technology, and in journalism from Cleveland State University. ...

 NY Alexander Hoffarth and Matthew Parry, both of Fairport, were chosen as Manning & Napier scholarship award recipients. Hoffarth, an $8000 recipient, plans to attend the University of Rochester. Parry, a $2000 award recipient, plans to attend St. John's ...

 NY - Jeremy Moule I did a lot of internal lobbying with staff, trying to get them to understand what a $12-million reduction in graduate medical education would mean to the University of Rochester. I expect that no matter how the process had been this year, ...

 NY And University of Rochester in 2003 received a $3.5 million grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as part of $25 million going to eight universities expanding their entrepreneurship education. UR has since started its Center for ...

 NY Mary Kate Hannan scored a career-high seven goals and Lindsay Dakin (Rush-Henrietta) added six as the University of Rochester defeated Vassar 19-13 Saturday in women's lacrosse. Rochester's victory, coupled with Skidmore's 17-5 loss to Hamilton College ...

 IL Jonathan Michael Ulanday, a sophomore majoring in applied music (clarinet) at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, has been named to the Dean's List for academic achievement for the fall 2008 semester. ...

 DC A: The University of Rochester never asked me to make an invidious distinction between the public and the professional, but taught history as a form of criticism. If that sounds amateurish, as if critics are less serious than bibliomaniacs, ...

 NY With large research institutions in the area, it seems commonplace to hear of research grants being awarded to schools. We often hear of grants given to the University of Rochester or Rochester Institute of Technology to further advance exploration in ...

 NY A senior neuroscience major at the University of Rochester, she's led fundraisers for stem cell research, pushed for undergraduate classes on the topic and challenged classmates who call it abortion. To her, stem cell research isn't really a ...

Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.

University of Rochester Newsroom University of Rochester Medical Centre (URMC) scientists found that human astrocytes, cells that were long thought simply to support flashier brain cells known as neurons that send electrical signals, are bigger, faster, and much more complex than ...

Also today the American Cancer Society presented a $840000 research grant to a local doctor. Dr. Jun Sun of Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center will use the grant to investigate colon cancer. Dr. Sun is exploring the role ...

By Susan_Fandel@URMC.rochester.edu (Susan Fandel) Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Nursing received nearly $3.4 million more from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last year than they did in 2007. The sizable increase in funding dollars propels the School of Nursing’s ranking to sixth among 82 national nursing...

Steve DeLuca scored 17 points to lead five players in double figures as visiting Brandeis University defeated the University of Rochester, 80-63, at the Louis Alexander Palestra. DeLuca finished with 17 points, eight rebounds, five assists, two steals, ...

 NY - Buckwell, 49, works in the University of Rochester Research Subjects Review list. She attended five Steelers games this year. Her 16-year-old daughter, ...

By leslie_orr@urmc.rochester.edu (Leslie Orr) A University of Rochester Medical Center study challenges common assumptions about the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), by showing that in some people, surprisingly high levels remain in the body even after fasting for as long as 24 hours. The finding suggests that BPA exposure may come from...

By mark_michaud@urmc.rochester.edu (Mark Michaud) Pfizer Inc. has agreed to provide the University of Rochester Medical Center with a unique set of electrocardiographic data that will help researchers develop new methods to ensure the safety of experimental drugs. This is the first time a major pharmaceutical company has agreed to publ...

By greg_williams@urmc.rochester.edu (Greg Williams) At team of surgeons and chemical engineers from the University of Rochester has designed a device to end the steady stream of five-and-under children who arrive at the hospital with hands burned by clothing irons. Their just-published research results on the new “iron shoe” argue that i...

By Gavin Baker(noreply@blogger.com) Ryan Randall, et al., The Next Generation of Academics: A Report on a Study Conducted at the University of Rochester, report, September 17, 2008. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) Abstract: This document reports on the user research portion of “Enhancing Repositories for the Next Generation o...

After a number of awesome events in the Midwest, we headed back to the East Coast as part of the E-Month programming at the University of Rochester. Our November 5, 2008 half-day conference included presentations by local and national young entrepreneurs encouraging Rochester-area st...

By Mike Millikin Allen Barnett, principal investigator and UD professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Christiana Honsberg, co-principal investigator and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering led the research. The two direct the University’s High Performance...

Beacon — Todd Plumer was named to the fall dean's list at Eastern Kentucky University. Clinton — Amy Tannenbaum was named to the fall dean's list at Hamilton College. Elizabeth Kessler was named to the fall dean's list at Hamilton College. Patrick Suarez was named to the fall dean's list at Ha...

The membrane is a 15-nanometer-thick slice of the same silicon that's used every day in computer-chip manufacturing. In the lab of Philippe Fauchet, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University, Striemer discovered the membrane as he was looking for a way to bett...

By Mike Zazaian Press release courtesy of the University of Rochester Scientists at the University of Rochester have stored an entire image-worth of data within a single photon, promising unsurpassed quantities of data storage for the era of quantum computing that lies before us. Led by Associate Pro...