His calm demeanor belies a passionate heart. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivered a message of reconciliation and acceptance at an event at the University of Rochester Monday night that attracted close to 2,000 people. The 20-year, record-smashing, center forward of the National ...

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He was considered the best basketball player of all time. And after six seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks and 14 with the Los Angeles Lakers during its 1980s dynasty era, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar went on to act, advocate, write, teach, ...

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  Could Susan B. Anthony have envisioned a scholar working in her name and studying how women are treated in Rwanda following genocide? Such a person exists in the new director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality ...

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Two green projects at local universities that won $1 million state grants this week didn’t come out of the blue. Rochester Institute of Technology’s plan to automate ventilation in its Golisano Institute for Sustainability depending on classroom occupancy, for example, ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester both won $1 million grants in a statewide college competition to develop energy saving and sustainability projects. Suffolk County Community College on Long Island won the third prize offered in the ...

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Wall Street CEO Richard B. Handler has been elected chairman of the University of Rochester’s Board of Trustees. Handler, who earned his undergraduate degree at UR in 1983, succeeds Danny Wegman, who has been a trustee for 20 years and ...

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Surely one of the math scholars at the University of Rochester or at Rochester Institute of Technology could figure out the odds of both local universities tying for 50th on US News & World Report’s list for national universities recommended by ...

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Paul J. Burgett, a music scholar, vice president and dean at the University of Rochester, as well as a warm and welcoming presence at the university for more than 50 years, has died. A UR statement issued late Thursday afternoon ...

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David D. Reh, a Victor entrepreneur who founded materials handling companies Gorbel Inc. and Retrotech Inc., a business services support company, Raytec Group, and Ravenwood Golf Course, died on Saturday. He was 77. A farm boy who grew up in ...

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The University of Rochester School of Nursing is cutting the cost of tuition so nurses can more easily comply with new state legislation requiring a bachelor’s degree in nursing within 10 years of getting a nursing license. The RN to ...

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The program at the University of Rochester Wednesday afternoon will look like the end of an intriguing summer camp, but the Horizons program’s “Animal Athenaeum” will be a whole lot more meaningful. The exhibition for students to show the work ...

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Four local colleges are receiving a total of $6.6 million in grants from the state Higher Education Capital Match Program, known as HECap, which provides matching grants that pay up to one-fourth of the cost of a project. Leading the ...

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The figures describing the University of Rochester can seem staggering. $1.2 billion in annual payroll for 30,800 employees. $3.2 billion total pumped into the economy in the form of that payroll plus the wages of people whose jobs depend on ...

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Celeste Kidd and Steven Piantadosi, two professors who were among the plaintiffs who sued the University of Rochester for its handling of sexual harassment complaints against another professor, are leaving UR and taking their labs with them to the University ...

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The federal lawsuit against the University of Rochester for its handling of sexual harassment complaints against professor T. Florian Jaeger took another step toward resolution Friday, with the UR filing a final reply. The filing is an answer to the ...

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