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Neighbors in Action is based on former Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson’s nationally recognized 1996 initiative Neighbors Building Neighborhoods, which inspired hundreds of projects around the city.
The university will get $9.9 million to lead USSF University Consortium/Space Strategic Technology Institute 3 work on advanced space power and propulsion.
The legislation, which would create a statewide framework for mental health and substance use crisis response, was introduced after the 2020 death of Daniel Prude.
Tech-centric communities show more polarization than non-tech communities when discussing artificial intelligence, researchers found in an analysis of nearly 34,000 comments posted on Reddit.
The city’s Pathways to Peace initiative will launch a proactive case-management approach through its school-based team.
The money will fund the next phase of the state Youth Employment Program, which aims to reduce gun violence among at-risk youth.
A $25 million project brings new space and features to the home of the Saunders College of Business.
The funds, for the first large-scale, head-to-head comparison of two heart failure drugs, brings to $54 million the total received by the URMC cardiac research team in four months.
The university expects to prepare more than 170 semiconductor engineers and scientists to help close the workforce gap and strengthen the nation’s semiconductor technology leadership.
The Finger Lakes region will get more than $1.8 million from the Family-Centered Services initiative, which focuses on the challenges of family poverty.