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 ...
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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...
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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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The conversation at the feed counter lamenting that the latest soybean crop won’t be any good when it’s harvested might actually be a cry for help. Wyoming County officials are offering a workshop Jan. 17 to help train colleagues, friends ...
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Information sessions on Genesee Community College’s veterinary technology program are coming up starting Jan. 15, to try to increase the number of licensed vet techs needed by the state’s growing bovine population. Genesee County is one of the most dairy-dense ...
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Rochester Institute of Technology has won $1.5 million in the latest round of competitive funding from the Empire State Development Council. The grant will upgrade the university’s Genomics Research Lab Cluster, helping it expand research, technology transfer and talent development ...
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The New York Deaf Patient Care Council, a division of We the Deaf People Inc., will hold an open forum on deaf health care on Jan. 23 at the Robert F. Panara Theatre, LBJ Building, on the NTID Rochester Institute ...
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The University of Rochester has named a Wisconsin provost and the first woman in its history as president. Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, provost of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a psychology professor, will begin work in Rochester in the summer of ...
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Trillium Health Inc. has received the largest grant in its history, enabling the organization to construct a $19.3 million mixed-use development. The state’s Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative (ESSHI) grant totals $20 million over 40 years, with $500,000 distributed annually ...
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St. John Fisher College and the Golisano Foundation announced on Tuesday a $5.8 million gift to the college from philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano to create an institute dedicated to training nurses in the care of people with developmental disabilities. The ...
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