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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 […]
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 […]
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