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Continuing a Lifelong
Local Roots, Commitment to Nursing

Global Impact

Faculty and students at the School of Nursing are continually
working on solutions to today’s health issues, embracing the
wonders of new technology, and building important research
partnerships with their peers at the University of Rochester
Medical Center and colleagues across the United States and
the world.

• In an effort to promote healthy aging, a team of scientists
is looking at ways to slow cognitive decline in the older
population. Studies have shown that healthy individuals with
heart disease, or those at risk to get heart disease, are more apt Sarah Brody Epstein and
to lose cognitive capacity. Using this knowledge, researchers Rachel Brody Bandych
are focusing on activities that make the brain “sweat” to help
people regain cognitive retention and prevent further decline.
“My mother was of small stature, but when
• In collaboration with the University’s Hajim School of she spoke, we listened,” says Rachel
Engineering & Applied Sciences, nurse scientists are Brody Bandych of the late Ruth Miller
developing a medical device that encourages adolescents to Brody, director of the School of Nursing
monitor their asthma symptoms. Technology incorporated from 1951–1954.
into the mobile phone will allow for the collection of raw
data (wheezes and coughs) through a microphone and It was because of their mother’s wishes
accelerometer. Data is automatically processed, analyzed, and that Rachel and her sister, Sarah Brody
stored, and can be reviewed on the phone’s screen. Epstein, chose to establish the Ruth Miller
Brody and Bernard B. Brody Nursing
Your gift to the campaign will help build four nationally Professorship at the School of Nursing.
recognized Centers of Excellence at the School of Nursing to
promote good health and prevent disease, improve health care “Our parents instilled in my sister and
delivery systems, address chronic illness and palliative care, and me a deep respect for nursing and the
manage symptoms across diverse populations. School as a whole,” Bandych says. “As the

School’s director at one time, our mother
felt supporting research and faculty was
paramount.”
BE A PART OF OUR RESEARCH TEAM
The Brody Professorship has had a
You can help fuel new discoveries. With additional
significant impact on the School’s ability
funds we are able to offer more professorships to
to grow its academic programs and
outstanding faculty members, allowing them to
recruit the most talented faculty and
pursue cutting-edge research. Your philanthropy
students.
provides the seed money needed to fund the
development of potentially life-changing ideas and “It’s amazing to hear about the work the

could fund a Visiting Professors series, bringing the School is doing,” Bandych says. “It’s very
gratifying knowing we played a role in
greatest minds in the field of research to Rochester.
helping that work to be done.”