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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 […]
The University of Rochester Medical Center is getting ready to accept shipments of the coronavirus vaccine. Officials are saying that the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech could get emergency use authorization from the FDA as soon as next week, right around the time the first shipment is expected to arrive. The vaccine itself is pretty […]
Kevin Beckford called into the WDKX Wake-Up Club to talked about the Exploration into Science and Technology related Career Planning Event Friday, December 11, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Click Here To Register The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is a unique national resource for research and education in science and technology and […]
Have you seen the ‘Social Dilemma’ yet? On the Wake-Up Club we talked about the Netflix show “Social Dilemma” were they talk about how social media controls people feelings. In a rescent study done by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and two University of Rochester psychologist, they found that teenagers who receive […]
Monique Mendes is the first Black Female Graduate of U of R’s Neuroscience Ph.D. program. Mendes started her undergraduate work at University of Florida, majoring in biology and then worked her way up to Rochester to study neuroscience at U of R and finished in five years. During an interview with Spectrum Local News, she […]
Dr. Colleen Fogarty, the Department Chair for the University of Rochester Department of Family Medicine let WROC know that it is still very important that people keep wearing masks to reduce the COVID-19 infection rate down. She stresses that there are confirmed scientific reports that justify the use of masks and face coverings stop the […]
The Rochester City School District and University of Rochester have been given the green light to extend their partnership with East High School. The partnership began five years ago when East high school was one of the lowest performing schools in the Rochester City School District at that time. Since the partnership East High school […]
On Monday, May 11, the University of Rochester, in cooperation with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County, the Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), and local dairy farmers, made refrigerated half-gallons of milk available to area residents for free between approximately 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the University’s River Campus Park Lot. The distribution […]
The University of Rochester and East High School will continue their partnership after successfully working to improve the school’s performance after threatening to be shut down 5 years ago due to being the lowest performing school in RCSD. Both the Rochester City School Board and University of Rochester agree the since teaming up the schools […]