Volume 28 Index (2000)

• December 4, 2000 (#22)
  Medical plans, FSA's taking enrollments
  Researchers indentify autism gene
  Minority education is focus of grant
  ITS launches strategic planning effort
  Professor's book is triple winner
  Technology transfer revenue quadruples
  $1.4 million boosts environmental ed
  Doctor uncovers 1831 canal journal
  Anthropologist receives fiction award
  Schedule of Medical Plans Informational/Enrollment Sessions
  Ship Shape (photo)
  

• November 20, 2000 (#21)
  Scientists make key Alzheimer's finding
  Galway Kinnell delivers Plutzik Lecture
  President responds to committee recommendations
  Two appointed to named professorships
  Mt. Hope awarded $1.7 million grant
  Simon School's Edna Seidmann dies
  The woman behind World Flight 2000
  Film historian named visiting scholar
  NIH research funding jumps 18 percent
  Exquisite Torture opens at Todd Theater
  New phone numbers to start with 506 prefix
  

• November 6, 2000 (#20)
  Center is renamed for Skalny Foundation
  Study backs drug choice for Parkinson's
  LLE's Omega boosts laser-driven fusion
  From: Marvin Stillman, manager of environmental compliance; Re: Hazardous Waste Management
  Rush Rhees gallery features mixed media
  Quantum dots foster smaller transistors
  Barbara Granger's art is on the button
  Polish Film Festival shows Wajda films
  

• October 23, 2000 (#19)
  Strong Health launches Project Believe
  New center on aging to be established
  From: Thomas H. Jackson; Re: Sesquicentennial Weekend
  King Arthur rules at 'Camelot 2000'
  Elected officials salute Sesquicentennial
  Conversations examine life of first lady
  ESM exhibit honors photographer Ouzer
  SMD, SON inaugurate three new deans
  From: Information Technology Services; Re: Telephone Directories
  Parts of RC designated as arboretum
  Sesqui Delights: the Sesquicentennial insert
  

• October 9, 2000 (#18)
  Get set for Sesquicentennial Weekend
  Note Sesqui parking, traffic info.
  From: Charles Murphy, Director of Human Resources; Re: Sesquicentennial Weekend
  $1 million gift creates library deanship
  Sesquicentennial Weekend Events
  Stonehurst Regatta rows back into town
  Investment sessions offer financial help
  From: University Health Service; Re: Delayed Supply of Influenza Vaccine
  Sesquicentennial online auction launched
  

• September 25, 2000 (#17)
  Exhibits, books mark Sesquicentennial
  Two chemists named to professorships
  Dandelion Square offers gathering place
  Ware brings disability studies field home
  SON researchers awarded $2.4 million
  New mouse aids in dystrophy research
  Alumnus Baldwin kicks off fall readings
  MAG spotlights folk carver Edmondson
  Note office relocations on the River Campus
  

• September 11, 2000 (#16)
  Extensive Sesquicentennial events slated
  Race honors Anthony, women's education
  New women deans make history at SMD
  SMH researchers awarded $1.4 million
  Grant will be used to investigate artificial joints
  Log on to Rochester's diversity Web site
  Gandhi's grandson speaks at conference
  Training begins for online phone directory
  Think Safe
  Keep fit at River Campus facilities
  Paley sculpture enhances MAG entrance
  

• August 28, 2000 (#15)
  Several honored with Goergen Awards
  Yellowjacket Day joins Convocation
  Vice president for investments is named
  Murphy succeeds Brault as HR director
  Douglas Wylie appointed as controller
  Library unit provides vast resources
  Scientists design adaptive computer chip
  Find students online
  Staff orientation program expanded
  Eisenberg named editor of top journal
  ESM professor wins research fellowship
  Topolski exhibits artwork at two venues
  SON recognized for geriatric research
  Professor receives award from alma mater
  

• August 14, 2000 (#14)
  Blackman wins $450,000 physics prize
  Dental program gets national recognition
  Liver transplant makes history at Strong
  Two scientists receive Sloan fellowships
  Fenno's book studies Southern politics
  Physics program teaches the teachers
  Hartnett exhibit examines Niagara Falls
  New area code takes effect next year
  Training inspires student researchers
  Remember to recycle
  State recognizes the Miner Library
  New director of University audit named
  From: University Facilities and Services; Re: Tracking Codes
  OHRD schedules leadership workshops
  

• July 31, 2000 (Student Summer Issue)
  Sesquicentennial offers special events
  Yellowjacket Day joins Convocation
  Teachers, departments get Goergen Awards
  Eastman receives $3.26 million grant
  Major gift propels library renovation
  Dates to remember
  Freshman housing planning continues
  Nursing school implements new strategy
  Hundert, Chiverton are named as deans
  Athletic center, campus get facelifts
  A message from Thomas LeBlanc, Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the College Faculty, about The Frederick Douglass Institute
  McNair Program encourages diversity
  Note Career Center upcoming events
  FYI
  Important information for the fall
  

• July 24, 2000 (#13)
  Eastman receives $3.26 million grant
  Learning the Language (photo)
  Mathematics refines evolution theories
  A note from HR Re: Vacation
  Gunta Liders named director of ORPA
  Russian artist studied in Givens book
  Lyons exhibit reexamines human figure
  Light-harvesting molecule takes shape
  Eastman lecture spotlights folklorist
  The Currents listserv keeps you in touch
  Alumnus named Top 100 Innovator
  FYI
  Think Safe
  

• July 3, 2000 (#12)
  Hundert, Chiverton are named as deans
  Paprocki given new administrative posts
  Major gift propels library renovation
  NSF grant is one of Warner's biggest
  Register for Sesquicentennial Weekend
  A note to readers
  Clark, longtime College dean, dies
  Construction, event impact River Campus
  Facilities Management Information Services (FAMIS)
  Still lifes take center stage at MAG
  Carillon concerts to be offered on Quad
  Technology achieves past-perfect vision
  Astronomers complete testing for NASA
  

• June 12, 2000 (#11)
  Rochester joins new HIV vaccine network
  Merger set for two organization staffs
  The Currents listserv keeps you in touch
  University benefactor William Simon dies
  Bavelier named John Merck Scholar
  Lerner receives New Investigator Award
  End-of-life care becomes focus at SMD
  Medical professorship honors Paul Fine
  University, RIT astronomers team up
  FYI
  

• May 22, 2000 (#10)
  Commencement speaker stresses civic duty
  Rochester Ph.D.s get top teaching posts
  Fulbright Award sends Willis to Moscow
  Longtime employees honored for service
  Celebrations will be held to reward over 700 staffers
  Pioneering doctor Robert Burton dies
  Art historian Duro to head department
  Grad student tests virtual-reality uses
  Alumnus, surgeon Richard Kobilak dies
  Anthropologist oversees tourism research
  United Way campaign raises $705,800
  FYI
  

• May 1, 2000 (#9)
  The 150th Commencement draws near
  Conklin, Orr win Guggenheim awards
  United Way update
  Tarduno leads students on 'Field Quest'
  Summer renovations get under way at the River Campus
  $1.6 million awarded for heart research
  Warner, Greece schools renew partnership
  Study shows nurses' home visits help
  Watts receives accounting-educator award
  Student's papers presented to library
  Artist Lyons receives Fairchild Award
  

• April 17, 2000 (#8)
  University awarded historic drug patent
  Friedman receives Fulbright, IEEE honors
  Make Good Things Happen
  Contemporary-writing library is unveiled
  The Currents listserv keeps you in touch
  U.S. News rates Rochester's graduate programs
  Eastman series features child prodigy
  Dental researchers report on cavity war
  Jazz-harmonica legend gives ESM concert
  Young patients get in the driver's seat
  Crash and learn
  MAG exhibit celebrates painting, poetry
  

• April 3, 2000 (#7)
  SEAS, SMD unite to form new department
  Biomedical engineering department meets rising demand
  Committee to consider WRC membership
  United Way update
  Optics researchers earn year-end kudos
  Program offers new hope for mentally ill
  London investigates woman writing teams
  MAG symposium draws noted scholars
  ITP stages ambitious Iliad production
  Undergrads, BOCES students collaborate
  

• March 20, 2000 (#6)
  Schneider headlines Commencement
  NOW president to speak on women's issues
  Day of Caring
  Edmund A. Hajim Gymnasium opens
  Native Voices comes to River Campus
  ESM residency draws renowned producer
  Fehn to study volcanoes, ocean in Japan
  Rubin develops Washington symposium
  Study shows Child Health Plus works
  Chase Corporate Challenge team forms
  FDA approves CHS-researched vaccine
  

• March 6, 2000 (#5)
  Simon School is awarded $4 million gift
  Gleason Foundation's gift will be used for a new wing
  Cooper is named Woman of the Year
  Harvard professor earns 1st Riker Prize
  2000 United Way campaign officially kicks off
  Alumnus to share Wolf Prize in physics
  Clark program draws three major poets
  Researchers develop fiber-optic monitor
  Researcher's work is transformed as art
  Bocko's research used to smooth rides
  Sibling study probes Alzheimer's cause
  

• February 21, 2000 (#4)
  Susan B. Center undergoes major changes
  Joanna Scott's fifth novel is published
  SMH to install area's first PET scanner
  It's time again to 'Make Good Things Happen'
  Pediatric program wins national award
  Susan B. Anthony's desk returns home
  ESM acquires photographer Ouzer's work
  Article addresses workers' lung ailments
  SON professor's fables improve learning
  

• February 7, 2000 (#3)
  MAG hosts monumental Parrish exhibit
  2000 United Way Campaign
  New chime tolls for the Sesquicentennial
  Crawford is promoted to budget director
  University Copy Center Services
  Physicist Harry Gove unravels mysteries
  Emerson, 1st SMH thoracic surgeon, dies
  Outreach program creates great chemistry
  Time Team wins Best Practices Award
  Think Safe
  Dance Program offers subscription series
  New Day Care Provider
  

• January 24, 2000 (#2)
  Jackson, Phelps issue mission statement
  The University of Rochester . . . An Inclusive Community
  Center for Future Health gets $1 million
  Philip Wexler joins Israeli institute
  Alumnus William Warfield returns to ESM
  Time Reporting Guidelines
  Warner School recognized with two grants
  URMC secretary doubles as glass artist
  Weather watchers dial 6111
  Susan B. Center honors women's successes
  Historian to discuss Holocaust evidence
  CHS finds few asthmatic kids get medicine
  

• January 10, 2000 (#1)
  Powell appointed to Wilson professorship
  Area's 1st pediatric neurosurgeon named
  Strong gets $9 million for AIDS research
  The Sesquicentennial
  Sesquicentennial Web site offers facts and fun
  New director of purchasing is appointed
  Roach also is named director of auxiliary operations
  Professor Emeritus George Engel dies
  Author's premiere novel wins Kafka Prize
  HP licenses engineers' 'Blue Noise Mask'
  Poreda conducts research in Antarctica
  Treat prostate cancer early, study says
  Peer-led workshops spread across campus
  F.Y.I.
  

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