Philanthropy
Two major gifts spark campaign for a new Golisano Children’s Hospital
In October, the Golisano Children's Hospital launched a $100 million campaign to raise funds to build a new hospital and focus on programs to enhance care, research and education for current and future patients. A few months earlier, entrepreneur and philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano, for whom the hospital is named, announced a $20 million lead gift to bolster plans to construct a new facility. Learn more about these gifts »
At University trustee’s dinner
In New York City in September, Mark Noble, Ph.D., director of the University of Rochester Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute, gave a lecture on novel therapies for the injured central nervous system, research that has demonstrated significant potential for the treatment of spinal cord injuries. Read more about this research »
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Match Day 2012
The drama of Match Day moved to Whipple Auditorium this year, where both tension and spirits were high.
The Future of Medical Education
Philip Pizzo, M.D., dean of the Stanford School of Medicine and a Class of 1970 graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, discussed the future of medical education during a January visit to Rochester.
Power of Posters
Intrigued by a poster about preventing AIDS that he saw on a Boston subway car in the early 1990s, Edward Atwater, M.D. (M '50), began collecting AIDS education posters to track how different societies viewed and responded to the epidemic.
Praising and sustaining the Rochester model
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