{"id":726242,"date":"2026-10-29T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=726242"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:24:10","slug":"review-fall-2026-environmental-medicine-public-health-sciences-history-726242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/review-fall-2026-environmental-medicine-public-health-sciences-history-726242\/","title":{"rendered":"From atoms to action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Explore the milestones that led to the formation of URochester Medicine\u2019s new Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health Sciences.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/\">University of Rochester Medicine<\/a>\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/environmental-medicine\">Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health Sciences<\/a> unites two of the University\u2019s long-standing areas of research and practice, both of which have increasingly connected scientific discovery with efforts to prevent disease, inform policy, and improve health.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few of the milestones that brought them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore the milestones that led to the formation of URochester Medicine\u2019s new Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1472,"featured_media":730142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41112,42472],"tags":[23722,28442,18772,42492,13992,18432],"class_list":["post-726242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-magazine","category-health-medicine","tag-department-of-environmental-medicine","tag-department-of-medicine","tag-department-of-public-health-sciences","tag-medical-center","tag-rochester-review","tag-school-of-medicine-and-dentistry"],"acf":{"external":"","hide_featured_image":true,"related":"show_related","style":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"card_grid_new","anchor":"","css_class":"pt-0","title":"","description":"","card_grid_cta":"","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"full-width","cards":[{"acf_fc_layout":"card","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"card_width":"full","card_overline":"","card_title":"<strong>1943<\/strong>","card_text":"URochester joins the highly classified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campustimes.org\/2020\/09\/06\/from-the-archives-rochesters-role-in-the-manhattan-project\/\">Manhattan Project<\/a>, becoming a center for studying radiation and chemical hazards associated with atomic-weapons production. 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