Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Tag Archives: Joe Morelle

80+ graduate from United Way leadership development programs (access required)

United Way leadership program graduates

United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes recently hosted a graduation ceremony at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center for its Leadership Development Programs.

Read More »

Morelle introduces legislation to help manufacturers (access required)

Congressman Joe Morelle on Friday introduced legislation to protect investments in America’s manufacturing sector. The Permanently Preserving America’s Investment in Manufacturing Act makes a technical change to the U.S. Tax Code allowing businesses to continue deducting interest expense. “Across the ...

Read More »

Inner Loop North project one step closer to reality (access required)

The Inner Loop North Transformation Project could finally move forward as a result of legislation passed by the House of Representatives. The project was submitted as part of this year’s Surface Transportation Member Designated Projects and would expand on the ...

Read More »

Baden Street Settlement, Boys & Girls Club to receive federal funding (access required)

The Boys & Girls Club of Rochester could receive nearly $100,000 as a result of the recently passed appropriations bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. “For 50 years, the Boys & Girls Club has been a beacon in the ...

Read More »

Senate to consider $800,000 in funding to expand RTS electric bus fleet (access required)

Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA)’s proposal for preliminary design and environmental review of an electric charging depot has been included in legislation passed by the House of Representatives. The $800,000 project was submitted as part of this year’s Surface Transportation ...

Read More »

Senators, congressman urge GM to produce ventilators in Rochester

Elected officials are urging General Motors Corp. to begin producing ventilators at the company’s Rochester facility. U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Congressman Joseph Morelle on Tuesday sent word to GM Chairman and CEO Marry Barra to ...

Read More »

Funding plan secured in record amount for Laser Lab (access required)

Funding for the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics has been agreed upon in a record amount for five years, according to Sen. Charles E. Schumer. Schumer on Friday shared an announcement of the Laser Lab’s $409.9 million “Cooperative ...

Read More »

MCC wins $4.4 million to train more optics technicians (access required)

 A $4.4 million federal grant will help Monroe Community College turn out higher numbers of precision optics graduates. U.S. Rep. Joe Morelle, D-Rochester, announced the grant Wednesday from the Office of Naval Research for the Defense Engineering Education Program in Optics. ...

Read More »

RIT to help boost STEM for low-income students at many colleges (access required)

A $370,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow Rochester Institute of Technology to help other colleges compete for federal funding aimed at expanding STEM opportunities for bright, low-income students. “It’s critical to our national interests that we do ...

Read More »

Finger Lakes makes first cut in decision to relocate parts of USDA (access required)

U.S. Reps. Joe Morelle and Tom Reed have sent a letter urging U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to pick the Finger Lakes region for a planned relocation of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the Economic Research Service. Morelle ...

Read More »

RIT receives $1.6 million for deaf education in technology fields (access required)

Rochester Institute of Technology has won a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to promote technical training for deaf students, including veterans whose injuries result in hearing loss. The grant provides three years of support for DeafTEC, also ...

Read More »

UR cancer center gains $3.4 million grant for clinical trials (access required)

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 ...

Read More »

RIT unwraps MAGIC Spell Studios, called a future hub for game design and film (access required)

You might call it Hollywood East. Or the Big Apple North. But the dozens of people who turned out for the grand opening Tuesday call the new building at Rochester Institute of Technology the MAGIC Spell Studios. The 52,000-square-foot, $31 ...

Read More »