{"id":359772,"date":"2019-01-29T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=359772"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:20:31","slug":"one-family-two-generations-three-degrees-359772","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/one-family-two-generations-three-degrees-359772\/","title":{"rendered":"One family, two generations, three degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giuliano Agostinho de Castro \u201920 lives in a house a few miles from the River Campus with two fellow University of Rochester students. One is in the doctoral program at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warner.rochester.edu\/\">Warner School of Education<\/a>, and the other is pursuing a master\u2019s degree in history.<\/p>\n<p>They study together, ride to school together, dine together, and swap family stories. The stories are often the same, because Giuliano\u2019s housemates are also his parents.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliano was paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident in his native Brazil two years ago. His parents, Gilberto and Marcia, moved to Rochester to be his caretakers and decided to further their education at the University. They\u2019re 5,000 miles from home, three students bonded by hope, love, and college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fell in love with the campus,\u201d says Marcia, who was a professor of engineering before moving to the United States. \u201cWe were so jealous Giuliano got to attend school here. We moved here to support him after his accident and thought, \u2018Why not enroll?\u2019\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Giuliano and Marcia (pronounced MAR-see-uh) are scheduled to graduate in 2020. Gilberto, a former business executive, hopes to receive his doctorate in education in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fmp9JgO1mb8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u2018I can\u2019t move my legs\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The fall 2016 semester, Giuliano\u2019s first at Rochester, was a huge success. \u201cMy roommate was great, my classes were great, and I joined the club rugby team,\u201d the business and economics double major says.<\/p>\n<p>When winter break came, he flew home. It was time to surf, sleep, and reconnect. He celebrated New Year\u2019s with friends in Buzios, an ocean resort, and left January 3, 2017, for the long drive back home. Giuliano and two friends started out at 5 a.m. to beat the traffic, and he scrunched his six-foot frame on the back seat to sleep. When he awoke, the passenger door near his head was gone, and a stranger was standing in the opening to block the sun from shining on Giuliano\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>Something else was strange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t move my legs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Their car had been totaled after striking another vehicle on the highway. Everyone involved somehow walked away unscathed\u2014except Giuliano. He had suffered multiple vertebra fractures and compressed his spinal cord, causing him to lose all sensation and movement from the chest down. Gilberto and Marcia were six hours away at another resort when Marcia received a call from the mother of the friend who had been driving. \u201cThere\u2019s been an accident,\u201d the woman said, \u201cbut Giuliano is still alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\u201cI have to stay in school.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Marcia realized something terrible had happened. \u201cOf course, he\u2019s alive,\u201d she yelled into the phone. \u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t he be alive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She and Gilberto began the long drive to reach their son, monitoring his progress through phone calls and texts. Traffic was heavy, and it took eight torturous hours to reach the hospital where Giuliano had been admitted \u201cIt was a mess,\u201d Gilberto says. \u201cBut we made it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They rented a helicopter to fly him to Rio for surgery, knowing he wouldn\u2019t survive another marathon ride on bumpy roads. \u201cWe were racing the clock,\u201d Marcia says. Three weeks later, they endured a 17-hour flight to Chicago, and Giuliano underwent a second surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital before being admitted to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He was now a quadriplegic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything I taught him in his first years\u2014dressing, bathing, using the toilet, and walking\u2014had to be relearned,\u201d Marcia says.<\/p>\n<p>Although Giuliano says it was \u201ca depressing period in my life,\u201d he remained dedicated to the journey he had started months before. \u201cI have to stay in school,\u201d he told his parents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Learning from afar<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Marcia emailed Stephanie Krause, co-director of the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iso.rochester.edu\/\">International Services Office<\/a>, to ask if her son could take classes remotely. \u201cGiuliano is very positive, and is looking forward to going back to UR,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis is one of his strongest incentives to keep fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krause and Molly Jolliff, director of international student engagement, developed a plan to keep Giuliano in school while continuing his rehabilitation in Chicago and presented it to Richard Feldman, then dean of the College and now president of the University. \u201cAs a residential college, this isn\u2019t something we had done before,\u201d Jolliff says. \u201cRich had only one question: \u2018What is best for the student?\u2019\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jolliff reached out to two faculty members who offered courses that interested Giuliano. She asked them: would they permit him to enroll remotely? Both were eager to help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was teaching Big Business in the South: Business History of Brazil for the first time, and I knew Giuliano would be able to follow the course themes and access course materials [online],\u201d says Molly Ball, a lecturer in history, who also taught Marcia in one of her graduate courses last semester. \u201cIt gives me great joy for the entire family knowing that he continues to improve,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Wilson, a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the <a href=\"http:\/\/simon.rochester.edu\/i\">Simon Business School<\/a> also was eager to accommodate Giuliano\u2014as were other students in the class. When Giuliano enrolled in Wilson\u2019s Entrepreneurship 101, a student working for <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.rochester.edu\/services\/classroom-technology\/\">Event and Classroom Management<\/a> took videorecordings of each class and uploaded them for Giuliano. At the end of the semester, Giuliano went home to Brazil for the summer. When he returned to Rochester in August, his parents came with him\u2014and stayed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360792\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-360792 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Giuliano-de-Castro-class.jpg\" alt=\"Giuliano Agostinho de Castro sitting in a classroom full of fellow students\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Giuliano-de-Castro-class.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Giuliano-de-Castro-class-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Giuliano-de-Castro-class-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giuliano attends professor Sevak Mkrtchyan\u2019s calculus class in Goergen Hall. Staff from the Office of Disability Resources, the Office of the Registrar, the International Services Office, University Facilities and Services, and University IT coordinate to support Giuliano on campus. <br \/>(University of Rochester photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Getting around campus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Moving to the United States wasn\u2019t easy for Gilberto and Marcia, but they had the means and the time. Their daughter, Mariana, attended secondary school in England and soon would enroll at the University of Southern California. Gilberto had quit his job two months earlier as CEO of Estacio, a higher education company in Brazil, looking for new challenges and more freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Marcia took a leave from her job as a professor of engineering at University Estacio after the accident. The family rented an apartment in downtown Rochester, one with only one elevator. Once, it stopped working, and Giuliano had to be carried down five flights of stairs so he didn\u2019t miss class. A few months later, they bought a one-story ranch house in Brighton, a suburb close to the University. Gilberto took several classes at nearby Nazareth College to improve his English, and it whet his appetite for being in the classroom. He already had a master\u2019s degree in industrial engineering, while Marcia has a PhD in the same field. But they craved more, for different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard about the Warner School, I knew it was an opportunity to help me do better what I\u2019ve done the last 10 years in Brazil,\u201d Gilberto says.<\/p>\n<p>Marcia had been devouring literature on spinal cord injuries and needed another outlet. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved history,\u201d she says. \u201cI applied for a master\u2019s in history, and I\u2019m so happy. Ever since we saw this campus, I\u2019ve been a Yellowjacket in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each day, they drive to school and split off to their own classes. Giuliano was a workout fanatic before his injury and still spends hours daily lifting weights and using equipment that utilizes functional electrical stimulation\u2014a technique that emits low energy electrical pulses to artificially generate body movements in people with paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>Each night, they drive home, eat dinner, play with their dog, Chico, and spend quiet hours studying.<\/p>\n<p>Navigating the campus in a wheelchair was challenging to Giuliano, but he met with Liz Carpenter, access coordinator for the University\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/disability\/\"> Office of Disability Resources<\/a>, to design a plan. Carpenter examines Giuliano\u2019s schedule before each semester to make sure he\u2019ll have time to get from one class to another. \u00a0\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t, I work with the Registrar\u2019s office and we move a class closer,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter also coordinates with Classroom Management to ensure furniture and classroom layout will accommodate Giuliano\u2019s wheelchair. And, she develops a plan so the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facilities.rochester.edu\/\">Department of Facilities and Services<\/a> can clear a path to accommodate his wheelchair on snowy days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people at the University do a lot for me,\u201d Giuliano says. \u201cThey work hard to improve my experience here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to stay active on campus, he joined an international committee in <a href=\"http:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/sa\/\">Students\u2019 Association<\/a> government and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiuliano never gets mad at his situation,\u201d says classmate Bruno Ribeiro \u201920, a close friend from Rio de Janeiro. Ribeiro points to Giuliano\u2019s steadfast discipline. \u201cHe\u2019s not a person of many words, but many small actions, like doing his physical therapy every day and going to the gym.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Prognosis: Positive<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Doctors originally painted a grim outlook for Giuliano. His spinal cord injury was classified as type A. \u201cIt means no hope,\u201d Marcia says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could have been worse,\u201d says Giuliano. \u201cI have control of my arms. I could have ended up with no control of anything but my head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chances of him walking again were slim\u2014but that chance has kept him motivated. When fall and spring recess come, he visits the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedykrieger.org\/\">Kennedy Krieger Institute<\/a> at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore for two weeks. He works out eight hours daily at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedykrieger.org\/patient-care\/centers-and-programs\/international-center-for-spinal-cord-injury\">International Center for Spinal Cord Injury<\/a>. He swims, uses a robotic exoskeleton to help him \u201cwalk,\u201d and receives other forms of electrical therapy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">Despite his injuries, Giuliano has never missed a single semester, and is on track to graduate in 2020.<\/div>\n<p>At first, he had no control of his torso and couldn\u2019t sit straight up. Now, he can. \u201cThis was the one thing doctors said he\u2019d never recover, because it was right below the level of injury,\u201d Marcia says. \u201cBut because of physical therapy and his determination, he got it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His right hand was so weak he couldn\u2019t hold a pencil. Now, he can shake hands firmly and open jars. He still doesn\u2019t feel anything from the chest down and checks his skin several times a day to make sure he hasn\u2019t injured himself. He adjusts his position every half hour to release pressure and prevent his hip bones from damaging his skin. He can\u2019t move his legs, but Marcia recently sent a video of Giuliano contracting his leg muscles to his doctor in Brazil. \u201cIf you had only told me that, I would not believe it,\u201d the doctor replied. \u201cIt would have been a mother\u2019s wish. It\u2019s kind of miraculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giuliano doesn\u2019t know what career he plans to pursue, but he has applied for summer internships to companies in Chicago, Miami, and San Francisco. Recently, he was asked during a Skype interview to describe a situation where he did the opposite of what everyone told him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s easy,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone told me I\u2019d never walk again, but I never believed them. I will walk again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walking beside him will be his parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re super excited about being part of my world here,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s their world too, now. That makes me pretty happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car accident during his first winter break had left Giuliano Agostinho de Castro \u201920 paralyzed from the chest down. 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