Education Neuroscience graduate student awarded diversity fellowship By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Nov. 4, 2024 Victoria Popov, a fifth-year neuroscience graduate student at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry recently received a prestigious diversity award from the National Institute ...
Research University of Rochester brain research featured at Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 10, 2024 Several dozen Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester faculty, researchers, and trainees from programs including Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Science, Center for ...
Research Research finds neurons look different in children with autism By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 9, 2024 Neuronal measurements could provide new insight into diagnosis & therapeutic interventions for autism
Research A revolutionary map of the fly brain could change how we study our brains By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 2, 2024 Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new resource—the FlyWire Connectome, described today in the journal Nature—that maps every neuron and synaptic connection in the central brain of ...
Research Celebrating Decades of Advances in Myotonic Dystrophy Research By Mark Michaud Sep. 17, 2024 On September 15, Strong Memorial Hospital lit up green to commemorate Myotonic Dystrophy Awareness Day and the significant scientific progress achieved in Rochester and beyond over the past 30 years. ...
Education Wilmot Science Training Program for Deaf High School Students Expands Across the U.S. By Susanne Pallo Sep. 16, 2024 For four years, the Wilmot Cancer Institute has run a summer internship program to expose Deaf high school students to cancer-related healthcare and research careers. Now, Wilmot is expanding that ...
Community Building on a legacy of intellectual and developmental disabilities research and care By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 26, 2024 The foundational work of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) related care and research has been underway at the University and Medical Center for more than a half-century. Clinicians ...
Research Connection speed in the brain may impact how people with autism process visual illusions By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 22, 2024 Researchers are finding the process in our brain that allows us to see these visual distinctions may not be happening the same way in the brains of children with autism spectrum disorder. They may be ...
Education EIOH Periodontics Chair Dr. Jack Caton Stepping Down By Karen Black Jul. 8, 2024 After more than 50 years of visionary and dedicated leadership, Jack G. Caton, DDS, MS, (Perio ’73, MS ‘73) will step down as chair of the Eastman Institute for Oral Health Periodontics Department on ...
Community Golisano Makes $50 Million Commitment to Build the New Golisano IDD Institute By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jun. 13, 2024 Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and civic leader B. Thomas “Tom” Golisano has made a historic $50 million commitment to build the Golisano Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institute at the ...