University of Rochester President Joel Seligman is resigning effective February 28, according to a statement from the school.
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Mary Adams leaving city school board
The Rochester school board will have another vacancy to fill come the end of this month. Board member Mary Adams submitted her resignation today citing family and professional considerations; Adams recently accepted a promotion at the University of Rochester’s Center for Community Practice. Adams, who is serving a second term, became immediately recognized for her […]
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UR DREAMers plea for help
Raul Ramirez is an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester, where he’s majoring in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. He hopes to go on to nursing school and eventually pursue a career in family medicine for the LGBTQ community, he says. But his plans may get derailed. Ramirez applied for Deferred Action for Childhood […]
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Elmwood Avenue plan up to City Council
The Terrence Building, the 17-story, 1950’s-era brick building that was part of the former Rochester Psychiatric Center, seems to jut up from the landscape at 1201 Elmwood Avenue. Over the years, there’ve been proposals for redeveloping its roughly 30-acre site – part of which is in the town of Brighton – but nothing has gotten […]
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Keeping the mentally ill out of prison
Ronnie Cox speaks in a soft, gentlemanly voice. His thinning, curly black hair is speckled with white, and his left hand wobbles with a slight tremor when he talks. Cox, who is 64, spent 16 years in prison. He was addicted to heroin and cocaine, and he contracted hepatitis C, a viral infection that often […]
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The UR’s bold commitment to a city high school
So much depressing news is coming out of Washington that it was a relief to attend an event last week and leave with a bit of optimism about a local problem. The source of the optimism was a talk by UCLA Professor Pedro Noguera at East High School. Noguera’s topic – America’s failure to invest […]
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Creating high-quality schools
Pedro Noguera began a Ted Talk presentation a few years ago by posing a question parents, teachers, and policy makers have been asking for years: “Why it is that educating children in America has become so hard?” Noguera, a researcher and UCLA education professor, gives a sharp response: “We have made this much more difficult […]
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City school budget nears $900 million; board approves SUNY Geneseo takeover of School 19
The Rochester school board has approved an $883 million budget for the 2017-2018 school year and a partnership agreement with SUNY Geneseo to manage School 19. All board members voted in favor of both initiatives at a special meeting last night. But some members were critical of the budget and the relationship with the college. […]
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Global health hits close to home
High rates of infant mortality and mothers dying during childbirth remain formidable problems in the developing world, where resources are limited. Roughly 150,000 women die during childbirth every year just in Sub-Saharan Africa. But two medical professionals with ties to Rochester have created a health care model that seems to counter the trend. The approach […]
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Local fields may have faulty turf
Several local schools and sporting facilities have installed costly artificial grass that reportedly wears down much sooner than it’s supposed to. When contacted, most weren’t aware of the problem. Nazareth College, University of Rochester, Town of Webster, Penfield Central School District, and the Rochester Rhinos all have the artificial grass, according to a recent National […]
