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U.S. News & World Report (September 29)
Pain More a Cause of Arthritis Than a Symptom
According to a University of Rochester study published Monday in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism, the nerve pathways carrying pain signals between the arthritic joints and the spinal cord transfer inflammation to the spine and surrounding cells and back again.
The New York Times (September 28)
On Top of the World
The two historians -- Isserman at Hamilton College, Stewart Weaver at the University of Rochester -- are the co-authors of Fallen Giants, a comprehensive history of Himalayan climbing that covers 250 years of high-mountain action.
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (September 24)
UR institute honors two with Douglass medals
The University of Rochester and its Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies awarded Frederick Douglass medals Tuesday to two men for their work to ensure equal opportunity.
Boston Globe (September 23)
Amid deadly illness, doctors offer little empathy, study finds
Dr. Diane Morse of the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York, said the findings reinforce other research. "All that we're asking physicians to think about doing is to acknowledge what they hear," Morse, whose findings appear in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, said in a telephone interview.
Los Angeles Times (September 21)
So many ways to mess up our kids, so little time
In a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers from the University of Rochester, Syracuse University and the University of Notre Dame studied 216 kids, age 6, their parents and their teachers. ... Those kids who were most concerned about their parents' relationship had significantly more attention problems. Those problems were, in turn, linked to adjustment difficulties.
Washington Post (September 19)
Crisis Poses Big Test for Markets' Regulator
Joel Seligman, president of the University of Rochester and author of a history of the SEC, said, "There's a lot of fault to go around" among Washington regulators.
Science Daily (September 17)
3-D Computer Processor: 'Rochester Cube' Points Way To More Powerful Chip Designs
The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester.
BusinessWeek (September 17)
B-Schools Wary on Lehman, Merrill Impact
Mark Zupan, dean of University of Rochester's Simon Graduate School of Business, said he believes that the top five business schools, which are key feeders for top financial firms, will be the most impacted by the turmoil. "It's going to be a tough market for Wall Street-related jobs," Zupan said.
InsideHigherEd (September 17)
Quick Takes: Free Tuition for Vets at Rochester
Today, the University of Rochester plans to make such an announcement; its scholarship would accompany admission to the institution's undergraduate programs (and would fill the gap beyond other aid for which veterans are eligible).
13WHAM (September 16)
Open Letter, Translations Publisher at UR
Chad Post, director of Open Letter, and Dubravka Ugresic, author of Nobody's Home, talked about the literary translations program at the University of Rochester.
Financial Times (September 15)
Soapbox: Enrol the young
At the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester, New York, we instituted our Early Leaders initiative in 2005 and we are seeing gains in enrolment, student quality and diversity.(The Soapbox column is open to professors, students and others interested in the future of business schools.)
ABC World News (September 14)
What Does Palin's Faith Mean for U.S.?
"Sarah Palin, if she was just a plain Evangelical woman, would have a tough time thinking that she could be VP," said University of Rochester religion professor Anthea Butler.
The New York Times (September 12)
How to Think About Sex? A Freakonomics Quorum
Steve Landsburg, professor of economics at the University of Rochester and author of several books including More Sex Is Safer Sex discusses how and why attitudes about sex have changed during the past 30 years.
Salon (September 11)
Where she was saved
'All of us in the business know that 'Christian Center' is an Assemblies of God church trying to rebrand itself to people who are not necessarily Pentecostal,' says Anthea Butler, a religion professor at the University of Rochester and an expert on Pentecostalism. 'You don't put Assemblies of God on the door because people think, 'Oh, those are the holy rollers.'
Rochester Business Journal (September 8)
UR receives $11.5M grant for lymphoma research
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry has received an $11.5 million National Cancer Institute grant to support the expansion of lymphoma research and clinical trials at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center. The Specialized Programs of Research Excellence grant fuels translational research projects designed to quickly advance findings from the laboratory to clinic setting to improve care and find cures.
U.S. News & World Report (September 8)
Painkillers Lower PSA Test Readings
"This raises questions that will have to be answered in a larger clinical trial," said Dr. Eric A. Singer, chief resident in urology at the University of Rochester, New York, and lead author of the report, which is in the Sept. 8 issue of Cancer.
The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 5)
Engineering and the Liberal Arts: Strangers No Longer
Colleges and universities increasingly view engineering as an important part of a liberal-arts education. Rather than segregate engineering from the arts and humanities, they are integrating the disciplines, in hopes of educating students to perform more effectively in an increasingly complex and technological world.
Here are excerpts from their comments, along with those of Robert L. Clark, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester and a former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, at Duke University.
ABC News (September 4)
Scientists Discover How Osteoarthritis Destroys Cartilage
The first direct proof of how osteoarthritis destroys cartilage has been discovered by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers. They said their finding could lead to preventive treatments for a disease that affects almost 21 million aging Americans and is the leading cause of disability in the United States.
The University of Rochester Medical Center team genetically engineered mice with high levels of beta-catenin and found the mice lost most of their articular cartilage -- the protective layer that covers the ends of bones within joints. The mice also developed the same bony growths and microfractures that occur in people with OA.
The McGill Daily, Canada (September 2)
New catalyst sheds light on solar energy
Does this mean that we are ready to go solar? According to Dr. Richard Eisenberg in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Rochester, we still have a long road ahead of us. "The idea of making oxygen from water is really one of the major catalytic challenges in solar energy conversion, and in that sense it's a first rate development on a really important problem," explained Eisenberg. But does it solve the solar energy problem? "The answer is no," he said.
ABC News (September 2)
Virus Is Passed From Parent to Child in the DNA
A virus that causes a universal childhood infection is often passed from parent to child at birth, not in the blood but in the DNA, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. They found that most babies infected with the HHV-6 virus, which causes roseola, had the virus integrated into their chromosomes. Not only that, but either the father or mother also had the virus in the chromosomes, suggesting it was a so-called germline transmission -- passed on in egg or sperm. "This is really a unique mechanism for congenital infections," said Dr. Caroline Breese Hall, a pediatrician at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York who led the study published in the journal Pediatrics.