It's Children's Mental Health Awareness Week and we're so proud that our region's FIRST pediatric mental health urgent care clinic will open in a little over a month, thanks to a generous $1 million donation from Brighter Days Foundation! #AdvancesHappenHere #mentalhealthmatters

#URochesterResearch by Doug Portman 🐛🏳️‍🌈🧬

Thrilled to receive this grant to study how early life exposure to these forever chemicals affects the immune system. This project is a team effort, and we look forward to sharing our results. Stay tuned! 😊

Congratulations to #IHHE Director Paige Lawrence, PhD, AAAS Fellow, ELUM on her NIEHS R01 grant 'Developmental Immunotoxicity of PFAS'! 🎉

The project URochester SMD will study how early life (maternal) exposure to #PFAS chemicals affects the immune system later in life.

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Congrats to Jannick Rolland, the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering and director of the Center for Freeform Optics, who has been inducted to Augmented World Expo’s (AWE) inaugural class of the XR Hall of Fame.
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Scientists studying hearing & balance across University of Rochester & URochester SMD have created a Collective to elevate our understanding of a system does not age gracefully—for adults 75+, imbalance is the number one cause of doctor visits, & 40% experience hearing loss. #URochesterResearch

Rochester crew at a well-deserved Dukes dinner to celebrate some awesome presentations from ARIA Rochester Michele Rucci The Active Perception Lab SchallekLab CVSUoR Flaum Eye Institute MarcosLab_UR

Could rehabilitation, or 👀eye training, help with vision problems after a stroke?

In a Neuro Minute: Research Assist. Prof. Matthew Cavanaugh, PhD, of the Huxlin Lab studies the visual system and how #stroke patients respond to different training. #URochesterResearch

🎉Congratulations!

🌟Shining stars of SMD🌟

Congratulations to our faculty members who received mentoring awards, named professorships, and teaching fellow awards during last week's recognition event.

Full list of recipients: urmc.info/1xY

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Dr. Knight found evidence that incorporating text messaging, improving language accessibility, and scaling up community engagement strategies can improve diversity in the developmental disability research contact database #PAS2024 #URochesterResearch .

Researcher Michele Rucci, et al, find that blinking plays a pivotal role in processing visual information—adding to a growing body of evidence revising our conventional views of vision.
Via PNASNews➡️ urmc.info/1xX
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