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The George Eastman Museum has announced a new scholarship program available for Black students who wish to enroll at the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation for the academic year of 2024-2025. Founded in 1996 through the collaborative efforts of producer L. Jeffrey Selznick and Paolo Cherchi Usai, the latter a former Senior Curator […]
The Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester is marking a significant achievement. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Friday to inaugurate “Conesus”, a new supercomputer. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Conesus will aid in advancing the university’s research. Stephen Dewhurst, Rochester’s vice president for research, stated: “The Laboratory for Laser Energetics […]
The University of Rochester announced it bought and now owns College Town in the Mt. Hope Avenue area. The University also said it created a new company called Meliora Development Company LLC to manage, and maintain the area. In 2015 the College Town area had officially opened. https://13wham.com/news/local/university-of-rochester-acquires-college-town
University of Rochester Public Safety Officers Association to be able to allow peace officers to carry firearms on all university properties. As of now only University officers can carry firearms at the University’s hospital. The conversation isn’t a new one; it was first introduced 4 years ago but was shot down. University of Rochester peace […]
Yesterday, UR Medicine celebrated the grand opening of the region’s only outpatient orthopedic surgery center. The UR Medicine Orthopaedics & Physical Performance Surgery Center opened in February at Marketplace Mall. Since opening, 4,000 orthopedic procedures and 1,000 surgeries have been performed at the center. University of Rochester Medical Center CEO Dr. Mark Taubman stated: “Today’s […]
According to news reports there’s a shortage of football helmets for the Rochester area schools. I believe this shortage problem is across the country and U-Prep is one of the area schools dealing with the helmet shortage. The U of R football program loaned the high school some of their equipment. High school football season […]
Over the weekend, University of Rochester students joined Flower City Habitat for Humanity for their sixth annual “Framing Frenzy”. Over 100 students from the Simon Business School helped build five new Habitat homes in the Beechwood Neighborhood. The “Framing Frenzy” will help FCHH progress on the seven new homes being built in the Beechwood Neighborhood […]
Some good news for East High School and its students and staff. The partnership between East High and the University of Rochester has been renewed. The three-year renewal was approved by the New York State Education Department on Monday. The University of Rochester took over East High school after it was to be closed because […]
The University of Rochester said it plans to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2022. The university made the announcement on Wednesday and said the goal is to raise the wage by December 2022. They plan to implement the increase through two stages the first will be this year in December. The second phase […]
Officials from the University of Rochester sent out a mass email on Tuesday that let everyone know they might have to pause the spring semester if COVID-19 cases continue to grow. Over the past couple of weeks, the number of positive cases has hit the same number as it was from the first two months […]