More than $36 million in federal funding has been made available for mental health treatment and research in Upstate New York. The funding will come from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and ...

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University of Rochester’s total fiscal impact on the economy was nearly $300 billion in 2019, with a local impact of more than $85 billion, a new report from the Center for Governmental Research Inc. shows. UR is a major contributor ...

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The University of Rochester has named Harl Tolbert as associate vice president of URVentures, the school’s division that works with faculty and staff to protect, develop and commercialize the university’s intellectual property. He joins the organization on Oct. 8. Tolbert, ...

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Beginning in July this year, University of Rochester Home Care will raise its minimum wage for personal care aides to $15 per hour, the agency said Tuesday. Home health aides will have a starting rate of $15.50 per hour. In ...

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A longtime medical professional has been tapped as the new president and CEO of Dansville’s Noyes Health. Chad Teeters M.D. will take the helm from retiring CEO Amy Pollard, who has led Nicholas Noyes Memorial Hospital and its related health ...

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The Simon Business School at the University of Rochester has been named the most diverse MBA program in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report. “Diverse” is defined by the report as the percentage of African American, Black, Hispanic ...

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For years, people in Rochester have lamented the “brain drain,” meaning the trend of young people leaving Rochester as soon as they finish college. Now there’s an app to fight that. County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo announced on Monday that the ...

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The business schools of two local universities – and three others in Central and Western New York – have made the Bloomberg Businessweek list of the best business schools in the country. The list of the top 85 programs offering ...

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