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— Dec.
12, 2007
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In
Today's Issue
- Part-time Faculty, Staff Get Health Care Reductions
- Eastman Dental Center Lands Grant for Teledentistry
- Nominations Sought for Susan B. Anthony Award
- February Break Soccer Clinic
- 'Pedestrian Photographs' Exhibit
- Event Highlight: African
Film Screening: Sankofa
- Rochester
in the News: Bernard Weiss and Shanna
Swan On Chemical in Canned Infant Formula; Mark Zupan Discusses
Corporate Use of Universities' Nanotech Labs
- In Higher
Ed: Harvard to Aid Middle Class Students
News
and Announcements
Part-time Faculty,
Staff Get Health Care Reductions
The University’s contribution to the health care costs for regular
part-time faculty and staff who meet certain criteria has changed. A
larger contribution will be provided by the University to these employees’ health
care plans beginning Jan. 1. University leadership has decided to reduce
the costs for part-time faculty and staff who earn $100,000 or less and
who have at least five years of University service. Read
more...
Eastman Dental
Center Lands a $532K Grant for Teledentistry
Eastman Dental Center has landed a five-year, $532,000 grant to explore
teledentistry, a novel approach that uses an intraoral camera to image
teeth and tooth surfaces. The grant was awarded by the National Institutes
of Health. Read
more...
Nominations Sought
for Susan B. Anthony Award
The Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership seeks nominations for
the Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award. Nominees should have
a strong affiliation with the University and a “lifetime” of
significant achievements. Submit nominee's name, contact information
and qualifications by Dec. 21 to RC Box 270435, 4-145 Dewey Hall, by
fax at 242-5810, or by e-mail to acwl@mail.rochester.edu.
The award will be presented at the annual Susan
B. Anthony Legacy Dinner on Feb. 7.
February Break
Soccer Clinic
Registration is open for the University’s three-day soccer clinic
during the school break, Feb. 18 to 20. Held in the Goergen Athletic
Center from 9:30 a.m. to noon, the clinic is for girls and boys ages
7 to 12 and costs $100, due in full with the application. The first 50
registrants are guaranteed spaces. For more information, contact Chris
Apple at 275-5630 (chris.apple@rochester.edu)
or John Spuhler at 275-2185 (jspuhler@sports.rochester.edu).
 'Pedestrian
Photographs' Exhibit
Through Jan. 31 at the Memorial Art Gallery enjoy a 40-photo exhibit
of street life in New York city by Larry Merrill, longtime director of
the gallery's Creative Workshop. The exhibition coincides with the publication
of a book of Merrill's photographs with essays by noted author Wendell
Berry and the gallery's chief curator Marjorie B. Searl. Read
more...
Events
Wednesday,
Dec. 12
Africa
Film Series Screening—Sankofa: Morey Hall 314. 5 p.m.
For more events: www.rochester.edu/calendar
Rochester
in the News
ABC
News (Dec. 10)
"Chemical in Infant Formula Cans Sparks Concern"
Bernard Weiss, professor of environmental medicine, and Shanna Swan,
professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director
of environmental medicine in the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology,
warn that a chemical found in the inner lining of infant formula cans
could harm babies. "BPA acts like an estrogen, and infants are
being exposed to this hormonelike chemical at a particularly sensitive
time, when estrogen-dependent development is occurring rapidly," says
Swan. Read
more...
Washington
Post (Dec. 11)
"Nanotech Firms Find Room on Campus"
Simon School Dean Mark Zupan discusses the corporate use of nanotechology
laboratory space run by universities. (Also
reported by BusinessWeek, Forbes, Miami
Herald, San
Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia
Inquirer, Houston
Chronicle, Boston
Globe, Newsday, Associated
Press, and others.) Read
more...
In
Higher Education
New
York Times (Dec. 11)
"Harvard to Aid Students High in Middle Class"
"Harvard University announced on Monday that it would significantly
increase the financial aid it offered to middle-class and upper-middle-class
students, seeking to allay concerns that elite colleges are becoming
too expensive for even relatively well-off families." Read
more...
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