Education Using Improv to Address COVID Vaccine Hesitancy By Susanne Pallo Sep. 1, 2022 URMC researchers have developed a program that combines improv theater with coaching on how to tap into patients’ inner motivations to help health care workers guide their patients to get a COVID ...
Education The White Coat Ceremony: 110 Students Mark the Beginning of Medical School By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Aug. 12, 2022 The incoming class of medical students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry receive their white coats in a traditional ceremony.
Education Breaking Barriers By Ivy Burruto Aug. 2, 2022 Kristin Hocker, an assistant professor of clinical nursing at the University of Rochester School of Nursing, began teaching her Spirituality, Religion, and Health course to UR Nursing students in the ...
Research Many minds, many methods, one brain By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 21, 2022 The hum of a treadmill in the distance greets you stepping off the elevator into the Frederick J. and Marion A. Schindler Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester. The ...
People Postdoctoral Spotlight: Aaron Nidiffer, Ph.D. By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 20, 2022 Aaron Nidiffer, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Edmund Lalor, Ph.D. His research focuses on how the brain interprets visual speech and simultaneously processes two different types of ...
Research The brains of children with autism may not always ‘see’ body language By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 18, 2022 Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester have found that children with autism spectrum disorder may not always process body movements effectively, ...
People An Unbreakable Bond By Patrick Broadwater Jul. 8, 2022 Delores Keefer Seward ’56N and Jane Strother Hill ’56N have always been more alike than different. They both grew up in small towns and spent significant periods of their lives on family-owned farms ...
People Majewska honored by NINDS for exceptional mentorship By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jun. 21, 2022 Ania Majewska, Ph.D., has been named a 2022 Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship awardee by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) for her dedication to superior ...
Research Walking gives the brain a ‘step-up’ in function for some By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jun. 17, 2022 It has long been thought that when walking is combined with a task – both suffer. Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester found that this is not always ...
Research How the brain interprets motion while in motion By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jun. 15, 2022 New findings about how the brain interprets sensory information may have applications for treating brain disorders and designing artificial intelligence.
