C o n n e c t i o n s THE AND THE COMMUNITY

C o n n e c t i o n s THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER AND THE COMMUNITY

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Throughout its 157-year history, the University of Rochester has been committed to the greater Rochester community. We are proud to be an urban university; proud to be a major health care provider in this region; proud that our students, faculty, alumni, and staff are deeply involved in community service; proud of the role we perform as employers, consumers, and neighbors in a community and region we dearly love. We have become the largest employer in our immediate geographic area and the generator of an increasing number of new businesses. This publication is testament to the many vital connections between the University of Rochester and the greater Rochester community. It bears witness to our role as an educator, a health care provider, a leader in the arts and culture, an active force in economic development, and a good citizen. We serve our community best by striving to be the most outstanding university we can be. That is why universities are magnets for the economic progress that is the key to our in- creasingly knowledge-based society. But it is worth highlighting that our ties to Rochester are vital and inextricable, and these ties are growing. In this publication we celebrate these ties: the University, the Rochester community, and our accelerating progress together.

Joel Seligman, President, University of Rochester

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Dear Friend of the University of Rochester:

Monroe County is proud to be home to the University of Roch- ester. The unique character and accomplishments of this world- class institution and its faculty, staff, alumni, and students are a great source of pride for our community. The University of Rochester is Monroe County’s largest em- ployer and has a significant impact on our economic vitality and quality of life. It has been a catalyst for start-up enterprises and job creation, cutting-edge research and development, and the growth of high-tech, biotech, and optics companies. The University of Rochester is also the area’s largest health care provider, offering high-quality services to individuals and families throughout our region and across the country. Monroe County is pleased to partner with the University on the Center for Community Health. Through the renowned , , and , the University is bolstering our community’s image as a premier center for arts and culture. I thrilled to have President participate in my College Presidents Summit. Our colleges and universities need to be actively involved in defining the vision and priorities for our region as we move forward. I thank President Seligman for his leadership, enthusiasm, and commitment. I look forward to strengthening our partnership as we con- tinue to build a great future for Monroe County.

Sincerely,

Maggie Brooks Monroe County Executive

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In every sense of the word, the University of Rochester has truly come off their campus and into our community. As Rochester’s number one employer, the University is a genuine economic force, and President Seligman is an outstanding ambassador. The University of Rochester and the City of Rochester are linked both geographically and philosophically, sharing the common ideals of education and economic development. The University has helped to define modern-day health care in this country, and our city is the beneficiary of the University’s immense health care resources. In fact, Rochester was recently voted number six by the Places Rated Almanac as the best place to live in the United States. There is no doubt that the University’s presence in our community has contributed to that ranking. The Brooks Landing project, the proposed College Town, and a planned research facility are just a few examples of how the University is helping to reshape Rochester. Joel Seligman and I use every opportunity to look for ways to build on our successes. I am anxiously looking forward to seeing both the University and our great city blossom into even greater synergy. The University of Rochester student body represents the type of resident that we want to retain in Rochester—bright, commit- ted, and on the road to success. From education to health care, from prenatal to nursing home care, from jobs to housing, the University of Rochester and the City of Rochester are reaping the benefits of our strong relationship, interdependency, and collaborative spirit. I would like to thank University of Rochester President Joel Seligman and the entire faculty, staff, alumni, and student body for their commitment to Rochester.

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For the past two decades, the mer school open to anyone Warner School of Education with an undergraduate de- Education has collaborated with local gree. The Life Sciences Learn- school districts—urban and ing Center at the Medical suburban—in the research, Center is a science education selection, and implementa- laboratory working to increase tion of high-quality math cur- young people’s interest in sci- Education is at the heart of the ricula. During this time War- ence and raise public aware- University’s mission, and efforts reach ner has received eight grants, ness of benefits from science totaling $5.7 million, which and research. The center’s far beyond its campuses. In partnership have helped the school to two laboratories give students with teachers, parents, students, develop its mathematics out- experience with state-of-the-art reach with a regional focus. biomedical research equip- and community organizations, the Each new grant that Warner ment. The center also offers applied for was prompted by a Summer Teacher Institute University is expanding, enriching, and local teachers and administra- and professional development supporting education in our region. tors asking for more ongoing workshops. More than 6,000 support. students and 250 teach- All across the country, ers from area schools have educators are considering how participated in the center’s to increase student achieve- programs. ment in science—and how to Programs in science are make sure that girls, as well as just the beginning. Through boys, know they belong in sci- Rochester Scholars, Rochester ence classrooms and labs. In Scholars Jr., and Rochester Rochester, thanks to teamwork on Campus, high school by the University and other and middle school students groups, programs for students can take college courses and from preschool to high school even find out what living on and beyond address just such campus is like. Almost 2,000 needs. students have enrolled in these Each summer the Labo- programs over the past three ratory for Laser Energetics years. A yearlong, project-based holds an eight-week research program, the Young Entrepre- program for highly motivated neurs Academy, gives students high school students. The hands-on experience with Department of Physics offers entrepreneurship. programs for K–12 students There are opportunities and teachers, and the Institute for adults and seniors, too. of Optics offers an optics sum- Always Better offers non-credit

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adult learning programs, and Sparking Wonder yoUR Experience Highlands A recent $3.8 million grant at Pittsford provides enrich- has created a partnership ment education for residents between Warner and the of this local retirement com- Rochester Diocese Catholic munity. Schools to establish Rochester The University also takes preschools as centers of excel- part in community efforts to lence. Funded by the U.S. tackle challenging problems Department of Education’s in urban education. The Early Reading First program, Urban Teacher Leadership the ScienceStart! curriculum Academy—co-funded by the capitalizes on children’s natu- Rochester City School Dis- ral curiosity about the world trict and Warner—is a new around them and uses science program that helps teachers as a vehicle to develop their become leaders for equity- language, literacy, and school based educational practices readiness. and improvements in the city Preschoolers in the school district. The Saturday ScienceStart! curriculum School, created by medical have made significant gains students and funded through in language skills, particularly an AAMC grant, helps more in vocabulary acquisition and than 100 inner-city students at the ability to give explana- risk of failing. Every Saturday tions. They have also notably morning, medical students advanced their knowledge provide two hours of one-on- through a scientific approach one tutoring in core subjects of raising questions and inves- such as math, science, and tigating possible answers. reading. “I have seen the Science- A community’s success Start! curriculum develop a depends on the education of keen interest in the world its people. Through efforts to around us and a recognition support and improve learn- that everything in our world ScienceStart! ing, the University, commu- is truly science,” says Kathy Preschoolers at the St. Monica School delve into a lesson taught nity groups, and residents Dougherty, principal at Ca- are working for the future in thedral School at Holy Rosary. by music mentor Liz Gowman. The school partners with the Uni- Rochester. “ScienceStart! is a natural versity in bringing the nationally known ScienceStart! curriculum immersion into the world of into the classroom, helping Rochester preschool children to learn science—our world—without through exploring the world around them. the fear that’s occasionally

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associated with ‘science.’ The The Power of Words are disconnected from their program uses hands-on ma- Teens have important things schooling,” explains Larson. terials to develop the themed to say about the world in “It’s as if they are crying out to unit, thus creating an excit- which they live, and the Poetry us, ‘I have something to say, ing learning environment for Slam is giving them a platform and you aren’t listening!’” preschoolers.” from which to speak. The “The danger for a class- Last summer, students Warner School of Education room teacher is that you get from the St. Monica School’s is collaborating with three in a cozy space and aren’t summer program in the 19th urban high schools in Roch- challenged to think outside Ward came to campus for ester—School of the Arts, the box,” explains Tom Paint- a day of fun and learning. Wilson Magnet, and Edison ing, an English teacher at the ScienceStart! staff and a St. Tech—and performance poet School of the Arts. “Students Monica teacher used campus Reenah Golden to introduce rise to the occasion when their features to teach preschoolers students to spoken poetry as a knowledge is validated. The a number of concepts, includ- literacy practice that combines University came to me with an ing color and light (from the performance, politics, and exciting idea and new material stained glass chapel windows), cultural change. and has helped me to think movement and machines “I am endlessly astonished about how to use it, assess it, (from the parking meters and by the power of teenagers’ and tie it into the curriculum.” construction vehicles), and words,” says Joanne Larson, With funding provided mapping and measuring (by Michael W. Scandling Profes- through an Edith Glick Shool- jumping distances at the run- sor of Education, who helps man Children’s Foundation ning track). direct the Spoken Word grant, and a new collaboration The ScienceStart! staff Poetry Project for Warner. with Rochester’s Writers and has worked with nearly 50 Students and teachers explore Books, the world of perfor- teachers in urban, suburban, the place of poetry in urban mance poetry and poetry and rural classrooms, 90 culture and the larger society, slams is taking root in Roches- paraprofessionals, and four and the ways poetry and other ter’s schools. principals in the past six forms of communication years. During this time, 1,700 evolve. children have participated This project takes full Making an Impact in the program and 1,800 advantage of the rich literacy The RASA Youth Impact! pro- families have taken part in resources and life experiences gram, directed by faculty and the family literacy component urban teens bring to their students at the Warner School of ScienceStart! The program schools and gives youth safe and sponsored by - has also provided more than and effective ways to express ter After School Academy, has $500,000 in books, supplies, their views on issues such as collaborated with a team of and equipment to Rochester- poverty and violence in their 18 area high school students area preschools. communities. “There is a way to design and implement in which many urban teens community-based research

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projects on issues important ativity Counts, an after-school to them. Science STARS program. “Looking at Rochester from Hands-on scientific investiga- the perspective of youth and tions helped them to answer focusing on our well-being is questions important to them: Education : Connected a great start to understand- the food sources that attract • The Warner School Mathematics Outreach Program ing what’s really going on in butterflies, the exercise ben- has in the last decade provided more than 4,000 the community,” says Amarili efits of step dancing compared hours of professional development programming to Wright, a student at Edison to basketball, and the effect of more than 2,000 teachers Tech High School. “This fake nail tips on nail growth, • 1,700 children have taken part in ScienceStart! over research gives us a chance to to name just a few. its six years, and 1,800 families have participated in put some real information out “Just like the kids I can’t the family literacy component of the program there and improve our com- wait for the STARS program munity.” to start again in the fall,” says • 31 percent of Warner math and science graduates Youth researchers met Rochester science teacher in the last three years have gone on to teach at every other Saturday for six Tatjana Ravnik. “The program urban and high-needs schools months to analyze and col- provided an amazing op- • 60 students participated as Jumpstart volunteers lect data on issues, including portunity for the girls to feel for 2006–07 safety and the youth curfew, they can still be interested • About 1,000 Rochester-area students are full-time job availability, urban school in science. By the end of the RASA Youth Impact! undergraduates in the College of Arts, Sciences, resources, parent and commu- course it was clear that they Daniel Cooper, a student at and Engineering nity involvement, and alcohol, felt empowered and confident John Marshall High School, tobacco, and drug aware- enough to present their ex- • More than 1,500 students have enrolled in non-credit presents research at the ness and prevention. Based periments in front of a room adult enrichment programs in the last three years RASA Youth Impact! final on their research projects, full of unfamiliar faces.” program for 2007. Youth youth devised recommenda- Impact! is cosponsored by tions—both for themselves and for the broader Rochester Learning One-on-One the Warner School of Educa- community. Jumpstart—a national non- tion and the Rochester After profit organization that con- least 10 hours a week to attend- career opportunities following School Academy. Students nects thousands of members ing team meetings and work- graduation. Many of them go from Rochester high schools New Scientists from colleges and universities ing one-on-one with a child to on to pursue a career in edu- meet for six months to collect Science STARS is a club with nearly 12,000 children improve literacy, language, and cation. Rochester native Patti and analyze data and devise for middle school girls that nationwide—is helping Uni- social skills. The number of Watters graduated from the recommendations on issues involves them in scientific versity of Rochester students students supported has nearly University in 2006 and now investigations and helps them become mentors to children tripled from past years. works for Teach for America such as job availability, urban discover how science is impor- in Rochester’s city schools. In addition to serving the in New York City—but says school resources, safety and tant in daily life. More than 60 Jumpstart community, Jumpstart mem- she wants to come back home the youth curfew, and drug Last fall 22 girls from Wil- members at the University of bers also earn a work-study to help educate Rochester’s awareness and prevention. son Academy took part in Cre- Rochester each dedicate at stipend and expand their children.

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UR Well Sughosh Dhakal, clinic direc- tor and medical student, and Steven Scofield, assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics, confer with a pa- tient at UR Well Student Out- reach at St. Joseph’s Neigh- borhood Center. The clinic provides free and low-cost preventive and health mainte- nance services to uninsured and underinsured families and individuals. Dozens of physicians and hundreds of medical students have vol- unteered at the clinic since it was established in 2004.

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The University works in part- In addition to being the in the creation of programs nership with other Rochester- region’s leading health care with a significant community Health area organizations to address provider, the University also impact. A prominent example community medical concerns has a long history of devel- is the student-run health ranging from immunization oping programs that ad- center for the uninsured at St. rates to pediatric care conve- dress important, and often Joseph’s Neighborhood Cen- nient for working parents. unmet, health problems in ter. The program, UR Well, When he made his gift to found the Each time patients visit a the community. In 2006, the has received national recogni- School of Medicine and Dentistry in doctor’s office in the Roches- Medical Center renewed its tion for its efforts. ter area, they are likely ben- commitment to community The breadth of medical the 1920s, George Eastman directed efiting from the University’s health through the creation programs in the community the University to make Rochester service to the community: of the Center for Community touches people in every phase there are about 2,500 alumni Health. This center will build of life—and strengthens the the “healthiest community in the of the School of Medicine and stronger partnerships, support ties that hold our community Dentistry in the local region. faculty efforts to develop in- together. nation.” Today, community health is a An extensive network of novative new programs, and central mission of the Medical Center, patient care, education, and integrate community health research programs serves across the Medical Center’s Reducing Immunization alongside research, patient care, and the community through the missions. Disparities education. University’s Medical Center The University trains Across the country, African and Strong Health. Together medical professionals who not Americans over the age of they encompass Strong Memo- only are dedicated to clini- 65 and living in a city are 40 rial Hospital, the School of cal and scientific excellence, percent less likely to receive Medicine and Dentistry, the but also have developed the an annual flu vaccination School of Nursing, the Uni- compassion, understanding, than their white peers in the versity of Rochester Medical and reflection that comes suburbs. Disparities in immu- Faculty Group, the Eastman from exposure to cultures and nization rates—which break Dental Center, Highland Hos- surroundings different from along racial, ethnic, class, and pital and its affiliates, and the their own. Over the years, the urban/suburban lines—are Visiting Nurse Service. medical school has developed critical and persistent public The Medical Center is a strong relationships with health problems facing our regional destination for special- dozens of local organizations nation. These discrepancies ized medical care, offering through its Students of Roch- have significant public health advanced clinical services such ester Outreach and Communi- consequences: pneumonia as pediatric heart surgery, organ ty Health Improvement Clerk- and influenza together are the and bone marrow transplanta- ship programs. These links fifth leading cause of death tion, total joint replacement, have not only supplied these among people 65 and older. neonatal care, neurosurgery, se- organizations with commit- Nationwide, complications as- vere burn treatment, and many ted student volunteers, but in sociated with influenza result subspecialty faculty practices. some instances have resulted in 36,000 deaths each year and

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more than 112,000 hospital- the disparities between white tal Health Sciences Center year to create the “Healthy The University of Roches- izations. Children who are and minority and inner-city helped launch the “Get the Home,” a model home in ter’s Smilemobile program, a behind in immunizations are and suburban populations in Lead Out” (GLO) project, an inner-city neighborhood dental office on wheels, brings also often behind on regular Monroe County. Rochester which began with at-home risk with one of the highest rates oral health services year-round checkups, screenings, and now has one of the high- assessments and lead safety of lead poisoning. The home to children who would other- other primary care services. est immunization rates for demonstrations in an inner- is staffed by neighborhood wise not have access to much The University of Roches- children and the elderly in city neighborhood. These high school students, medi- needed dental care. The ter, in cooperation with Mon- the nation, and our success efforts led to the creation of cal students, and community program was founded in 1967 roe County and many com- has created a model for other a temporary “lead lab” in an volunteers and helps educate through community collabora- munity partners, has been at communities. abandoned home to dem- city residents about lead abate- tion with the Monroe County the forefront of national efforts onstrate to elected officials, ment and other environmen- Dental Society. Less than two to eliminate these disparities. contractors, landlords, and tal and safety hazards. years later, the University of In 1993, the Department of Getting the Lead Out local residents the hazards Rochester’s Eastman Dental Pediatrics created the Pri- Lead poisoning is probably of lead and the effectiveness Center agreed to assume mary Care Outreach Program the greatest environmental of simple, low-cost protective Spreading Bright Smiles responsibility for the program. which focuses on vulnerable health threat facing children measures. The University also Oral health is a major health Today, through the opera- children up to two years of in Rochester. Virtually all of helped organize a community- problem for children living in tion of three fully equipped age who reside in the city of Rochester’s housing stock was wide “Lead Summit” to gal- poor inner-city and rural com- dental vans, culturally diverse Rochester and the surrounding constructed prior to the ban vanize efforts to change city munities. Former U.S. Sur- dentists, hygienists, and dental rural counties. The program on lead paint, and almost one housing policies. geon General David Satcher, a residents provide compre- provides a community-wide out of every four Rochester These years of outreach, University of Rochester alum- hensive oral healthcare for reminder, recall, and outreach children has elevated blood research, and advocacy cul- nus, described dental and oral children and teens. system focusing on vaccina- lead levels—ten times the minated in a groundbreaking diseases as a “silent epidemic” The program consists of tions. Getting children to their national rate. lead hazard control ordinance disproportionately affecting three mobile units (a fourth doctor’s office for shots is just Lead poisoning poses a that was implemented by the America’s poor. Research links unit will begin operation in the first step. Once there, they tremendous health risk for City of Rochester last year. chronic oral infections with di- the next year or so) that rotate can receive other necessary children. Even low levels of lead This historic measure, which abetes, osteoporosis, heart and between inner-city elementary preventive care and screenings. are harmful and are associated requires the landlords to make lung conditions, and adverse schools during the academic In 2002, Rochester was chosen with decreased intelligence, rental properties lead safe, is pregnancy outcomes. It is also year and rural locations dur- as one of five sites across the impaired neurobehavioral de- a successful example of how known that tooth decay affects ing the summer. On an annual country to implement the Ra- velopment, decreased growth, broad community partner- academic performance, as oral basis, the three units provide cial and Ethnic Adult Dispari- and impaired hearing. While ships can bring about changes health problems are among services to 2,700 children and ties in Immunization Initiative lead poisoning is preventable, in policy that improve health. the leading causes of absentee- teens. The Eastman Dental (READII). READII adapted the its health effects are irreversible. To assist with the imple- ism from school; nationwide, Center also runs six outreach childhood outreach model for The University was instru- mentation of the new ordi- children with dental problems clinics located throughout the African American and Hispanic mental in assembling a broad nance, the University part- miss almost 52 million school inner city, including one built adults served by inner-city community partnership whose nered with the SouthWest hours annually. In Rochester, adjacent to an elementary health centers. goal is to make Rochester Area Neighborhood Associa- an estimated 23 percent of school, and one rural clinic. Collectively, these pro- “lead safe” by 2010. In 2003, tion and the Rochester Father- kindergartners have never The results make a pro- grams have essentially erased the University’s Environmen- hood Resource Initiative last visited a dentist. found difference in a young

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child’s life. In the words of one parent whose child was treated by the Smilemobile, “I had never seen her smile with beautiful teeth! When I saw the beautiful work that had been done, I cried. She would no longer be ashamed to show her teeth!”

Outreach and Support The Department of Psychia- try developed Project Link to treat people with severe mental illness who have become entangled in the criminal justice system. Jails and prisons have become the final destination for the men- tally ill in our society. Project Link enrolls people coming out of jail or inpatient hospi- talization who have chronic mental or substance abuse disorders. Through aggressive intervention and care, the program seeks to help them move to a stable environment and reduce the incidence of re-incarceration. The pro- gram—which works closely with law enforcement, judges, and parole officers—has School 17 Dental Clinic shown unprecedented suc- cess in treating such patients. Dentist and clinical director Chia Taw Huang examines a patient at the Daisy Marquis Jones Project Link has resulted in Foundation Outreach Dental Clinic at School 17. The clinic—part of the University of Rochester a significant reduction in the Eastman Dental Center—serves the neighborhood surrounding School 17 in the Rochester City cost of services for individuals School District, offering care to schoolchildren and their families. enrolled in the program.

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Healthy Home Joseph Hill, communications director for the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning, gives a presentation on lead safety at the Healthy Home, joined by Healthy Home out- reach coordinator Shehrina Tabassum. The Healthy Home builds community awareness of home environmental health hazards and gives people the tools and information they need to address such problems as lead hazards, asthma triggers, indoor air quality, injury prevention, and chemical safety.

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The University also con- the first several months with still put in a full work day—a tributes to the early detection their new babies, giving them necessity for many inner-city of cancer, a critical element the support and resources families. The technology is in successful treatment. Cre- they need—and often lack in also being used by dentists to Health : Connected ated in 1993, the Women’s their home environment—to spot and help prevent certain Health Partnership (WHP) is ensure that their newborns are tooth decay from plaguing • More than 120 community health programs a unique University-supported on the path to good health. inner-city children. • More than 90,000 people served, through commu- program that consists of more The results have been impres- The Healthy Living Pro- nity health programs than 40 community-based sive. Working closely with the gram is a unique, grassroots • More than $46 million in care provided for the unin- organizations and more than Monroe Plan for Managed approach to preventive health sured and underinsured in the community 100 health care providers. Care—a local health man- care. Operated in coopera- In tandem with community agement organization that tion with the Monroe County • More than 70 community partners, including partners such as the Highland primarily serves low-income Health Department, the pro- longstanding relationships with the Rochester City Hospital Breast Care Center, individuals and the working gram targets adults and older Schools and the Monroe County Department of WHP works with uninsured poor—Baby Love has reduced residents in the Southwest and Public Health women to make certain that neonatal intensive care unit Northeast quadrants of the • More than $10 million in funding from government, they understand breast, cervi- admission rates by more than city—the areas of Rochester’s foundations, and other sources, including $3 million cal, and colorectal cancer 60 percent. most pronounced health dis- contributed directly by the Medical Center risks, get regular screenings, parities. In coordination with and receive necessary diag- local churches in the African nostic follow up. Last year, the Tools for Better Living American faith community, program provided screenings The Health-e-Access program the program helps congrega- to more than 2,300 uninsured uses technology to connect tion members to make lifestyle women. The James P. Wilmot sick children at schools and changes that affect obesity, The School of Nursing, and self-management. “The Cancer Center also conducts day care centers with their heart disease, diabetes, and in collaboration with the high cost of nutritious foods annual prostate and skin can- doctors for speedy diagnosis hypertension. The twelve-week Rochester City School Dis- versus less expensive calo- cer screenings that are open and treatment. With the help program provides participants trict, operates a school-based rie dense foods, the lack of to the community. of high-quality videocon- with health screenings and clinic at East High School access to safe neighborhood Since 1988, the Baby Love ferencing, digital medical assessment, health educa- providing students convenient recreational facilities, and program has been providing cameras, and other diagnostic tion, counseling, and physical access to medical and mental barriers to accessing health home visits to at-risk moth- equipment, physicians can activity. Church pastors and health services. The clinic’s care, all combine to create ers and newborns. The City make medical evaluations for congregants provide support new iKnow computerized a perfect storm for many of Rochester has some of the a broad range of problems and encouragement. Well over health kiosk enables students overweight teens and their highest rates in the nation and discuss treatment options 1,000 people and 50 churches to monitor their weight and families,” says Kim Urbach, for children living in poverty, face-to-face with caregivers have been involved to date. In blood pressure and gives them MS, PNP, clinic director. “The risk factors for poor birth and patients who may be miles 2005, the program was recog- valuable wellness tips. The kiosk has been particularly outcomes, and infant mortal- away. The service is a boon nized by the U.S. Department program combines three key successful because it’s fast, it’s ity. Baby Love monitors and to working parents, who can of Health and Human Services components for helping over- private, and it’s fun and easy helps guide mothers through secure prompt medical atten- as an innovative approach to weight teens adopt healthier to use for technology-savvy their pregnancy and into tion for their children and prevention. habits—technology, education, teens.”

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Music for All Eastman School of Music stu- dent Jason Kenneth Schafer introduces schoolchildren to the joys of the clarinet at a Music for All performance. Founded in 1995, Music for All takes classical music and mu- sicians out of the concert hall and into the community. Per- formances occur in settings throughout the Rochester area, including senior homes, public libraries, schools, and shelters for the homeless and battered women.

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The Rochester cultural scene is lively, and the University is proud Arts & Culture to have a part in it. Operas, concerts, art exhibitions, literary events, recitals—these are just a few of the University contribu- tions to a city where the arts have “For the Enrichment of Community long had a special place. Life” are the words carved into the And performances are just the beginning. The University stone façade of the Eastman Theatre. offers many opportunities for Their prominence reflects the ongoing community members to become students of the arts. The Memo- partnership in arts and culture between rial Art Gallery and the Eastman School of Music are community the University and the local community. treasures, available to all. Together the Univer- sity, area residents, and local organizations have created a cultural and artistic energy that makes Rochester an excit- ing place to be.

A City of Music The Eastman School of Music has for eight decades enhanced the lives of Roch- esterians with education and entertainment. Each year the Eastman School offers more than 800 world-class orchestral, wind ensemble, chamber music, jazz, and opera performances, many of them free. Guest composers and artists visit each year, and many present master classes and talks that are open to the public. These visits are often

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the result of partnerships with performance, research, build- other institutions and groups ing, and preservation. The in the community. Eastman School has begun to The Sibley Music Library is assemble a collection of new the largest university-affiliated and historic organs unparal- music library in the United leled in North America. This States. It holds nearly three- collection will offer access to quarters of a million items, with organs of diverse styles and vast resources for performance traditions to talented young and research. But it is not a musicians from around the place for specialists only. Since world. Tourists, scholars, and its founding in 1904 the library music lovers will be drawn has been open “for the use of to Rochester to hear these all music-lovers in Rochester.” extraordinary instruments. The Eastman School’s The Eastman School will crown jewel, the Eastman place two European-style Theatre, is Rochester’s organs in downtown Roches- preeminent performance ter. A historic Italian Baroque space, home to the Rochester organ—the only full-size Ital- Philharmonic Orchestra, and ian Baroque organ in North a venue for many events spon- America—was installed in the sored by other community Memorial Art Gallery in 2005. organizations. The recently A new instrument closely mod- announced $20 million proj- eled after a Lithuanian organ ect to renovate the theater— from 1776 will be constructed funded in part by an $8 mil- and installed in Christ Church lion grant from the State of by 2008, in cooperation with Creative Workshop New York—will only enhance the Episcopal Diocese of Creative Workshop instructor this Rochester landmark. Rochester. The installation of Kate Wharton helps a student When the Eastman School these organs, together with opened its doors in 1921, it the planned renovation of the try her hand at sculpture. housed the largest and most historic E.M. Skinner organ at The Creative Workshop at extensive organ collection in the Eastman School’s Kil- the Memorial Art Gallery is the nation. In keeping with bourn Hall, will offer unique one of the oldest and largest this heritage, the Eastman musical experiences to the museum art schools in the School has embarked on a people of Rochester. country. It offers programs for long-range plan, the Eastman The lifeblood of the East- Rochester Organ Initiative, man School is the study and everyone from preschoolers that will help to make Roches- performance of music—an en- to adults during four annual ter a global center for organ deavor in which Rochesterians sessions.

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participate through the East- have the means. Since 1997 A Community Museum man Community Music School. Eastman Pathways—a collab- “A means alike of pleasure and It offers the Rochester com- orative partnership between of education for all the citizens munity the highest-quality the Rochester City School of Rochester.” So decreed Emily private and classroom instruc- District and the Eastman Sibley Watson in donating the tion. Opportunities for musi- School—has offered quality original Memorial Art Gallery cal learning and exploration music education to promising to the University of Rochester. include applied lessons on all city youth. A century later, the gallery still instruments and voice; a full ar- The Pathways program places the highest priority on ray of theory, composition, and provides generous scholarship education, with a wide- history courses; and numerous aid to pursue music studies at ranging program that serves musical groups, from chamber Eastman; it also offers students more than 16,000 area school- music to full ensembles. The mentoring and advising. Up to children—many enjoying their Eastman Community Music 75 students participate in the first museum experience. School serves approximately program each year. “The Path- “There’s an unmistakable 1,300 students—students who ways program has enriched energy in the air during a range in age from less than one my desire and ability to love school visit,” says Susan Daiss, year to more than 90. music,” says one student. “My director of education. “These The Eastman Community musical education grows with students discover that learning Music School is home to the every class,” adds another. takes place outside the class- acclaimed Early Childhood For community members room—and what fun it can be.” program, as well as the first who do not come to the East- Family Days bring children New Horizons Band, Orches- man School, music comes to and their families to the gal- tra, and Chorus program, an them. Each year the Music for lery, too, for celebrations of ensemble program for adults. All program sends more than such annual events as His- Since its inception at Eastman, 40 chamber music groups into panic Heritage Month, Asian the New Horizons program the community. They perform Pacific Heritage Month, and has spread all over the world. some 90 concerts each year Kwanzaa. Thanks to corporate for audiences of preschool- support, admission is free or ers, senior citizens, and those greatly reduced. Pathways to Music in between. Eastman is the The Memorial Art Gallery The University is committed only school of music to make is one of the few university- to making these rich resourc- such an extensive outreach affiliated art museums that is es available to Rochesterians program an integral part of its also a museum for the com- regardless of means. Many chamber music curriculum. munity. It is recognized as one students in the Rochester City Through Music for All, each of the finest regional art mu- School District have the po- year more than 2,000 people seums in the nation. The col- tential, interest, and motiva- in the greater Rochester com- lection spans 5,000 years, from tion to pursue advanced musi- munity are able to enjoy live the ancient world to the 21st cal studies, but some do not music. century, and includes master-

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works by such artists as Monet, children, teens, and adults. science. “Warren could have Cézanne, Matisse, Homer, and In addition to studio courses come to River Campus,” says O’Keeffe. Highlights include for all skill levels, the cur- Warner’s director of profes- Arts & Culture : Connected the recently reinstalled Ameri- riculum includes art history sional development, Martha can galleries, an interactive surveys and Art Day School, a Mock, “but it was much more • 241,920 people visited the Memorial Art Gallery in exhibit featuring a rare pair of popular “creativity camp” for valuable having hands-on 2005-06 ancient Egyptian coffins, and artists ages 7 to 13. Now in its experiences at the workshop, • 16,362 schoolchildren toured the gallery a newly acquired suite of 16th- 12th year, ADS allows partici- seeing art made by kids, and • 4,200 children and adults attended the gallery’s century German armor. pants to spend school breaks learning about gallery re- Family Days Last year ended with two exploring topics as diverse as sources.” major traveling exhibitions— printmaking, polymer clay, “The workshop’s success • 3,500 children and adults took art classes at the My America: Art from The Jewish and puppets. rests on two unique assets,” Memorial Art Gallery’s Creative Workshop Museum Collection, 1900–1955 Another success story is a says director Lawrence Merrill. • Eastman offered 825 performances last year, many and Georgia O’Keeffe: Color and longstanding collaboration “First is our faculty of more free Conservation. O’Keeffe, in its with the Rochester City School than 60 artist-teachers who • 1,300 students attended the Eastman Community only Northeast venue, attract- District. Each year, 75 to 80 tal- foster the skills, understand- Music School ed 50,000 people—25 percent ented elementary and second- ing and camaraderie that are of whom came from outside ary students are nominated by the workshop’s hallmarks. The • Eastman students give 90 concerts in community the Rochester region—mak- teachers for scholarships fund- other—the textbook for our venues annually ing it one of the most popular ed by the Gallery Council. For classes—is the museum and its • 50,000 people attended Eastman performances last shows in gallery history. many, it is an opportunity they collections.” year would not otherwise have, says Deborah Harloff, director of Eighty Years Young the arts for the Rochester City Literary Stars One morning in 1927, Me- School District. “The visual The University’s contributions morial Art Gallery director arts convey knowledge and to cultural life in Rochester family and is administered by provided the local venue for Gertrude Herdle passed out meaning not learned through do not end with the Memorial the Department of English. more than 250 writers, includ- crayons and paper to children other subjects.” Art Gallery and the Eastman Established to honor ing novelists Salman Rushdie, at a Saturday story hour. Little New in 2007, the Creative School of Music. From plays the work of Hyam Plutzik, a winner of the Booker Prize, did she know that over the Workshop welcomed staff and exhibits to concerts and distinguished poet and Deane and J.M. Coetzee, recipient of next eight decades, her mod- from ScienceStart!, an early lectures, the College of Arts, Professor of Poetry and Rheto- the Nobel Prize; Pulitzer Prize- est experiment would grow childhood curriculum devel- Sciences, and Engineering also ric at the University, the series winning poets Anthony Hecht, into one of the oldest—and oped at the Warner School sponsors many public events. has brought many nationally Gwendolyn Brooks, and with 3,500 students, one of the of Education, and preschool One example is the Plutzik and internationally renowned Galway Kinnell; former U.S. largest—museum art schools educators from four Catholic Reading Series, which has en- literary artists to Rochester. Poets Laureate Rita Dove and in the country. schools. With support from riched the cultural life of the The readings have always been Robert Pinsky; science fiction Today, the Creative Work- a federal Early Reading First University and the Rochester open to the public free of novelist Samuel R. Delany; shop is a community resource grant, teacher Warren Mian- community since 1962. The se- charge. and Rochester-based poets like offering year-round classes ecke explored connections ries is made possible through Over the past four decades, Daniel Donaghy, Thom Ward, for preschool and school-age among art, language, and the generosity of the Plutzik the Plutzik Reading Series has and James Longenbach.

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Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative At Rochester’s Sacred Heart Cathedral during the 2006 Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative Festival, keynote speaker David Boe discussed master organ builder John Brombaugh, who built the organ at Sacred Heart. The Eastman Rochester Or- gan Initiative aims to make Rochester a global center for organ performance, research, building, and preservation.

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With a direct payroll of over through direct and indirect $500 million and a total bud- employment, provide 750 Economic get of $1.4 billion, the Univer- construction jobs, and lead to sity of Rochester Medical Cen- at least $18 million annually in ter contributes significantly to new research funds. Development the University’s effect on the University-based research local economy. According to a boosts the Rochester economy Center for Governmental Re- in a variety of ways. The Uni- search economic impact study versity of Rochester is among in 2002, the total economic the top ten U.S. universities Since 2006, the University has been the output of the Medical Center in licensing revenue, earn- is $1.9 billion annually, and a ing just under $40 million in largest single employer in Rochester. total of 20,000 Rochester-area 2006. The Office of Technol- This fact is only the most prominent jobs can be directly or indi- ogy Transfer helps to transfer rectly attributed to the Medi- intellectual property licenses sign that the University helps to drive cal Center and its affiliates. to private industry and assists the economy in the Rochester region. Patients are drawn to the in the creation of start-up Medical Center from an area companies. Developing such reaching Buffalo, Syracuse, companies and keeping them and the Pennsylvania border. in Rochester—along with Patients from outside Monroe the jobs and revenue they County represent upwards produce—are other areas of 60 percent of total clinical of success for the University. services in some specialized Rochester-based companies areas. Such patients—and the such as Vaccinex, VirtualScop- families who often accompany ics, Socratech, Koning, LAGet, them for extended treament— SiMPore, and iCardiac, to support local businesses when name a few, are all products of they, for example, purchase University research. food and lodging. The Center for Electronic The new James P. Wilmot Imaging Systems, a NYSTAR Cancer-Center—a 163,000- Center for Advanced Technol- square-foot facility now under ogy at the University, gener- construction—will dramati- ated a record $114 million cally increase patient capacity in economic development and improve the quality of for New York State in 2006. care. The Center for Gov- Over the past five years, CEIS ernmental Research projects has delivered $315 million in that the expansion will create economic impact in New York 1,000 new permanent jobs State in new jobs, revenues,

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cost savings, capital improve- Excell Partners. Two of these ments, and acquired funds. organizations, HTR and University scientists and Excell, were founded by the facilities are a resource local University and provide critical companies can harness to financial, managerial, and advance their research and de- infrastructure support and velopment objectives. In 2006, services for early-stage high- the University’s Eye Institute tech and biotech companies and Bausch & Lomb renewed in the region. their research partnership, a collaboration that has already produced revolutionary The Power of advances in eye surgery. The Entrepreneurship Medical Center is also working The new Center for Entre- with CareStream (formerly preneurship is making use a division of Kodak) to help of a $3.5 million grant from develop its next generation the Ewing Marion Kauffman of digital medical imaging Foundation and a further $7 Spin-off Companies and health care information million in matching funds Vaccinex, Inc., president and technologies. to make entrepreneurship Local companies benefit integral to courses and schools CEO Maurice Zauderer, right, from leadership provided across the University. A num- at work in an immunology lab. by graduates of the Simon ber of entrepreneurship- Zauderer—associate profes- Graduate School of Business. focused programs have already sor of oncology in microbiol- Thirty-five Simon graduates begun, including the Young ogy and immunology at the are CEOs for businesses in the Entrepreneurs Academy, which School of Medicine and Den- Rochester region, twenty are helps children in grades 6 presidents, twenty-four are through 12 develop real busi- tistry—and colleague Deepak CFOs, eleven are COOs, and nesses; the Institute for Music Sahasrabudhe cofounded two are CIOs. Leadership at the Eastman Vaccinex in 1997 based on The University is an active School, which includes a focus technology invented at the participant and leader in re- on music entrepreneurship; University. The Rochester- gional economic development and the Center for Nursing based biotechnology com- initiatives, including Greater Entrepreneurship (CNE). pany strives to discover and Rochester Enterprise, the The first of its kind in Rochester Business Alliance, the United States, the CNE develop human monoclonal the Finger Lakes W.I.R.E.D. gives nurses the support they antibodies to treat serious Initiative, High Tech Roch- need to start and successfully diseases. It employs approxi- ester (HTR), the University run a business in the health mately 50 people. Technology Seed Fund, and care field, which helps keep

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experienced nurses in the profession. The CNE currently operates several businesses, including the Center for Life- long Learning, Health Check- point, Passport Health, the Nutrition and Weight Manage- ment Center, the school-based clinic at East High School, the Flu Prevention Program, and the Center for Telehealth, which together served more than 35,000 clients in the Rochester area last year.

Creating Work Locally Using local machinists, high-energy physicists at the University are building a device to shed light on what the universe is made of, where it came from, and what its fate may be. Down a 400-foot well at the Fermi National Accel- erator, they are constructing a detector to study neutrinos, the “ghost particles” of the universe, in more detail than anyone ever has before. When Fermilab asked Uni- versity of Rochester physicist Kevin McFarland to head the Riverfront Development construction of a new kind of Concept drawing of Brooks Landing (top) shows retail and office space—to be occupied in neutrino experiment, he read- ily looked to local businesses part by the University—that will stand along the Genesee River between Brooks Avenue and to help with the enormous Genesee Street. The University is also working with private developers who are building the undertaking. Riverview Apartments (bottom) on South Plymouth Avenue, and taking a master lease. These “The construction project projects have the potential to spark further development in the neighborhood. employs many engineers, both

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$3 million may flow into the allowed VirtualScopics to across the river while creating local economy from the U.S. expand its capabilities, or a vibrant “college town.” Department of Energy, the to solve problems without Brooks Landing—the National Science Foundation spending huge sums of money privately-funded waterfront and the Particle Physics and finding someone from outside development between Brooks Economic Development : Connected Astronomy Research Council Rochester.” Avenue and Genesee Street— • The University is the city’s top employer, with in the United Kingdom. VirtualScopics has now will include an 80-room hotel 17,800 employees—an increase of 600 (3.5 per- developed successful col- as well as a retail and office cent) in the last year laborative relationships with building occupied in part by High-Tech Future • More than 6,700 of those employees reside in the companies such as Pfizer the University, a coffee shop, city of Rochester, the remainder in surrounding In 1999, two University Inc., Johnson & Johnson, GE and additional retail space. communities researchers decided to see if Healthcare, and others. The development should be they could make software do “Everyone is interested completed by the spring of • Medical Center capital improvement projects have what radiologists naturally do right now in the economic 2008. created 2,700 construction jobs in their heads—take the many future of high-tech New York,” The University is also part- • More than 18,500 University alumni live locally flat images from an MRI, CAT, Parker says. “The question is nering with private develop- or ultrasound scan, and turn what are the elements that ers to bring a five-building, • 55 University graduates from the Simon Graduate them into three-dimensional need to be in place for a good 120-unit apartment complex School of Business are CEOs or presidents of local models. The raw scans become high-tech economic future, to South Plymouth Avenue companies vivid renditions of bones, and one of the elements is that will provide housing to • Some 30 local start-up companies are based on joints, and organs, all easily venture capital; you also need about 400 University students. University-created technologies, with an average of manipulated so a doctor can a generator of new technolo- The Riverview Apartments are 4 to 5 new companies per year zoom around and into any gies and people who want to scheduled to open in the fall structure to see how it may employ the new technologies of 2008. actually look inside a living as entrepreneurs. And the “Feedback from our Sector patient. University has been stepping 4 neighbors, city leaders, and Kevin Parker, dean of the up to do that.” the University community has School of Engineering and been overwhelmingly posi- Applied Sciences, and Saara tive,” Paprocki said. “Everyone the university’s own technical local facilities to which McFar- Totterman, professor of radiol- A University is excited for this new oppor- crew and outside machinists land turned to help build the ogy, teamed with two graduate and City Gateway tunity to revitalize the area for making custom parts,” says detector. The shop recently students, José Tamez-Pena Taking a walk along the Gen- and enhance our relationship McFarland. “Even some of the built part of the support and Edward Ashton, to create esee River will soon be a whole with the city.” raw material for the detec- structure—a large, 14-foot- VirtualScopics. The University new experience—for both city tor comes from local vendors long platform. “This is one of granted a sabbatical and re- residents and the University of where possible.” the biggest platforms we’ve duced workloads to help them Rochester community. Univer- New York Manufacturing, made,” says Sal Anselmo. get started. sity CFO Ronald Paprocki says a seven-person shop run by Before the neutrino “The involvement of the several projects in southwest husband and wife team Sal detector is finished in 2009, university is a significant Rochester will help connect and Bo Anselmo, is one of the McFarland hopes as much as resource,” Parker said. “It the campus to its neighbors

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The University is the first col- annually to support five Hillside dation—a collaboration among lege in the country to have de- Work-Scholarship Connection the University, the North Street Citizenship veloped a community service students. The program—which Community Center, and Rural component for its fall orien- serves students in Rochester Opportunities—encourages tation for new students—an and Syracuse—aims to in- inner-city minority students to go innovation that earned the at- crease the graduation rates to college. For each year the stu- tention of Time magazine. For of students in the city school dents, ages 12 to 16, earn good Contributing to community life is key eighteen years, students, staff, district by providing long-term grades, the foundation deposits to being a good neighbor—a value and faculty have participated advocacy, academic resources, $100 into their individual funds in Wilson Day, when more life skills development, and for college. The students come that runs through University history than 1,000 students each year job training. It assists students to campus for workshops and and continues to propel the University are placed at some 60 com- who enroll in seventh to ninth classes so college life becomes a munity agencies in the city of grades and provides long-term, real, attainable goal. “I wanted of Rochester today. Faculty, staff, and Rochester. Last year University comprehensive support services to give them what I call their students also participated for home, school, and work birthright,” Emmett says, “to be students put their time, their ideas, and in Be the Change Day—250 through high school graduation prepared throughout their edu- their donations toward efforts to make undergraduate students volun- and for two years beyond. cational experience to go on to teered for the Clean Sweep in University faculty and staff higher education and find their our community a strong and healthy Sector 4, a program run by the support the United Way/Red rightful place in society.’’ one, with better opportunities for all. Mayor’s Office of Volunteer- Cross Campaign each year. In ism and the NET office. 2006, employee contributions Last fall, the University totaled $1.2 million. Those Keeping Graduates, took part in the Mayor’s Lit- contributions are just one Serving Youth eracy Summit to help formu- indicator of the University The University of Rochester late a community-wide action of Rochester’s dedication to has joined with Roberts Wes- plan to advance literacy and to making a difference in the leyan, SUNY Geneseo, and the identify and develop partner- community. Rochester City School District ships that will enhance local to form a regional network literacy programs. that creates a unique one-year In the 1870s, Rochesterian Seeds for the Future program to retain Rochester’s Hiram Sibley presented the In summer 2005, Ayala Em- college students and provide University of Rochester with mett, associate professor of support for local nonprofit its first library building. He of- anthropology, agreed to run a agencies. fered his gift on the condition weeklong writing workshop for Through the Rochester that the library would be open urban youth at the North Street Youth Year Fellowship recent to all Rochester citizens. It is Community Center. Their college graduates take an a pledge that the University exuberance for learning moved active role in the community continues to honor today. her, and that limited commit- while increasing the number of The University provides ment grew into the Seeds for outlets for Rochester’s urban up to $80,000 in scholarships College Foundation. The foun- youth. ROC City Coalition and

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Mt. Hope Family Center The Mt. Hope Family Center After School Program helps children ages 6 to 12 improve social skills in a safe, supportive environment. University psychology majors work as staff, and a ther- apeutic curriculum addresses emotions, self-esteem, nonviolent conflict resolution, and more.

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of the University’s Depart- At its core, Mt. Hope is a Sciences, and Engineering, ment of Clinical and Social safety net for families who want Urban Fellows is a collaborative Citizenship : Connected Sciences in Psychology within support and new beginnings. effort funded by Rochester Area • University employees have pledged $1,242,970 to the College of Arts, Sciences, Community Foundation, Ewing the United Way/Red Cross Campaign in 2006 and Engineering. The staff Marion Kauffman Foundation, of 70 includes psychologists, Changing Lives and City Hall. Students from • About 60 percent of undergraduates take part in therapists, social workers, Through the Urban Fellows Rochester-area colleges mix community service, providing a collective 30,000 researchers, and graduate and program, University of Roch- with those who are Rochester hours of service per year undergraduate students. ester students are working natives but attend college • About 60 percent of children enrolled in programs “Mt. Hope is committed in area community agencies, elsewhere. at Mt. Hope Family Center showed improved func- to bridging the latest find- studying urban issues, and Their contributions have tion in areas such as cognitive achievement and ings from research and best meeting with local leaders, all produced policies to prevent socioemotional development; 100 percent earned practices. All interventions in an effort to contribute to lead paint poisoning, an improved educational screening scores provided at Mt. Hope are the Rochester community. education initiative about juve- theoretically informed and “I used the Internet and in- nile diabetes, and two block • The University’s Visiting Nurse Service runs the evidence-based,” said Sheree person interviews to research watch programs, among many third oldest Meals on Wheels program in the coun- Toth, executive director of Mt. best practices and inventory others. Urban Fellows earned try and provides nearly 330,000 meals each year Hope Family Center and asso- literacy programs,” senior a 2006 Division for Youth Serv- ciate professor of psychology. Eric Snider, an Urban Fellows ices Award and a Friend of Each family situation intern in the office of Mayor Leadership Rochester Award, is unique and guarded by Bob Duffy, told an audience at and a 2003 19th Ward Neigh- Rochester Business Alliance A Vital Safety Net confidentiality. Some children the fellows closing exercise in borhood Association Commu- have agreed to include the col- Mt. Hope Family Center deal with excessive conflicts at August. “One of the things I nity Partner of the Year Award. lege students in their network- listens to young people with home, others may witness vio- learned is the value of getting Like Snider, Mary Ault was ing events to further engage an ear trained to hear what’s lence or lack food and clothes. books into children’s homes.” selected as an Urban Fel- these recent graduates. In happening in their lives. People who walk through Snider’s research, which low. After graduation from addition, the fellows will help Children and pre-teens ex- the doors of Mt. Hope get direct included troubling numbers the University in 2005, Ault run a course on leadership that press themselves through play, help while they contribute to on the high percentage of postponed plans for graduate will introduce local college conversations, and therapy research that solves problems illiterate adults in Rochester, school. Instead she took a job students to community leaders during any one of a dozen bigger than what one family helped prepare Duffy’s staff with Leadership Rochester to in business, education, and programs based at the center faces. Financial support from for the Literacy Summit in coordinate the Urban Fel- health care. in the Corn Hill neighbor- private sources and govern- Rochester last fall. lows program and work with Community agencies such hood. Since 1979, Mt. Hope ment agencies allows Mt. Hope Eighty-five college stu- Rochester’s emerging leaders, as the Rochester Mayor’s of- has assisted thousands of fami- researchers to inform public dents—about one-half from the educating them on a range of fice, Biz Kids, Puerto Rican lies with treatment, interven- policy, improve interventions for University of Rochester—have community issues. Youth Development, Garth tion, and training. people in need, and increase un- served at least 30 different orga- “It’s all a journey,” says Fagan Dance, Quad A, and the The center is supported derstanding of the interrelation- nizations since Urban Fellows Ault. “Urban Fellows changed Rochester City School District through grants, gifts, and ship between psychological and began in 2002. Run by the local my entire view of Rochester have expressed interest in host- contracts for services and biological processes in human nonprofit Leadership Roch- and what I wanted to do with ing a fellow. stands as an independent unit development. ester with the College of Arts, my life.”

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