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Richard Feldman, president of the University of Rochester for nearly 18 months, gave this bit of parting advice Tuesday night: “If you ever get invited to the Nobel Prize ceremony, go,” Feldman said. He was talking to an audience of ...

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Rochester Regional Health recently was named winner of the George K. Hansen Exemplar Award, the highest honor given by the Greater Rochester Quality Council. Rochester Regional Health was recognized for its Optimizing EMR Alerts, an improved med administration initiative. The ...

Adaptive sports professionals and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical providers will learn about technological advancements and risk reduction in adaptive sports when Disabled Sports USA’s Adapt2Achieve annual leadership conference comes to Rochester in early June. The conference, set for June ...

MVP Health Care will partner with the City of Rochester and National Fitness Campaign on a program to bring a free, outdoor fitness court to Rochester. Rochester is the first community statewide to join the National Fitness Campaign on the ...

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It began as a necessary community service, formed to provide transportation so care providers could treat the ill during an influenza outbreak in 1919. A century later, Medical Motor Service remains a staple in the community, transporting the elderly, the developmentally ...

The Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester Medical Center will partner on an initiative to innovate connections between health and the arts. Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM), the first program of its kind in Upstate New York, will ...

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Located on the second floor of the Monroe County Office Building at 39 West Main St., the room is a modest space fit with a power outlet, a couple chairs and a table. The space is open for all mothers at the the building, whether they're county employees or just visiting.

  Lorne Farovitch, a graduate student at the University of Rochester, grew up deaf in a deaf family in Vancouver, British Columbia. His family situation meant that until the age of 24, Farovitch didn’t communicate with people in any other ...

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Deeds of sale and mortgage documents were filed with the Monroe County Clerk on Friday, the final procedural steps in the transfer of ownership and operation of two area senior living facilities. Post Acute Partners of New York City acquired ...

The long-awaited Golisano Autism Center and University of Rochester Medicine’s Golisano Pediatric Behavioral Health & Wellness Building have broken ground on the Al Sigl Schwartz Family Campus at 50 Science Parkway. “We are thrilled to be able to support this ...

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When she was a freshman in high school nearly 60 years ago, Kathrine Switzer made the dinner-table proclamation that she wanted to be a cheerleader. Her father, however, told her that wasn't the best choice. Cheerleaders watch what others do, he explained...

Richard Reddington, the Michelin-star winning chef who ran two acclaimed restaurants in the Napa Valley region, will highlight a foodie fundraising event on the site of the annual jazz fest in Rochester. Reddington plans to open a restaurant in Rochester ...

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A grant of approximately $3.4 million from the National Cancer Institute will support clinical trials at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Wilmot Cancer Institute for the next five years. While the Wilmot Institute has received funding from the NCI ...

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Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, will be the university’s commencement speaker May 19. Strickland now teaches physics at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, but was recognized by the Nobel ...

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A new partnership Nazareth College has with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine allows students to apply to both schools as they’re leaving high school and be able to attend medical or dental school without further ado after finishing at ...

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