Page 13 - Celebrating 10 Years of Impact | George Eastman Circle | University of Rochester

President’s Strategic Opportunities Fund: $5.9 Million pledged
Health Sciences Division: $2.2 pledged

FUNDS SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND ALLOW THE UNIVERSITY TO PURSUE EMERGING PRIORITIES EACH YEAR.

GOLISANO

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

• Funds to support facilities projects helped build the
new, eight-story Golisano Children’s Hospital, which
opened in 2015, and includes the Gosnell Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit, private patient rooms, and an
advanced imaging facility. 2017 saw the opening of
the Levine Autism Clinic, tailored to meet sensory
sensitivities and stimulation for children with autism
spectrum disorder, and Phase II of the Hospital’s
construction including a new pediatric intensive care
unit, a second unit for heart patients, and state-of-the-
art operating rooms.
$2.7 Million • Funds for recruitment helped draw master clinicians,
Pledged cutting-edge researchers, and innovative educators—
ensuring the robustness of the health care, medicine,
and science workforce in upstate New York for
generations to come.

• Programs like music therapy and social work were able
to provide vital services to children with healthcare
problems and to help families across the region keep
their children healthy.

MEMORIAL

ART GALLERY

• The Gallery’s new Centennial Sculpture Park opened.
One of several works commissioned for the park was
Unicorn Family by artist Wendell Castle.

• The Gallery offered several award-winning art and
wellness initiatives, ranging from custom tours for
Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers to opportunities
for hospital patients to experience the comfort and
healing power of viewing artworks at their bedsides.

• The number of students in public elementary school
$3.4 Million outreach was tripled by offering art education to
Pledged elementary students from three City of Rochester
schools every week for more than two months.