Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says the county has a partial solution to the backup in its crime lab. It’s a program that will allow University of Rochester doctoral residents to serve their fellowship in the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office. Dinolfo says it will help fill a critical need for forensic pathologists to examine […]
After derailed tank cars loaded with crude oil went up in flames in Oregon last week, United States Senator Charles Schumer is pushing for an emergency order against shipping that same oil across New York State by rail. Crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken fields is highly volatile and there have been spectacular fires caused […]
The New York State Photonics Board has approved $106 million in funding for the American Institute for Manufacturing Photonics in Rochester. It’s part of the money New York has pledged to the AIM Photonics Center, which is supposed to receive $600 million over the next four years from a consortium of industries and the federal […]