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FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK
I must begin with a thank you to Rochester philanthropist Tom Golisano. In June, he made a historic gift to the University to create the Golisano Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institute.
This institute is catapulting the clinical and transitional work at the University and Medical Center well into the future, enabling us to accelerate our efforts to improve lives and find the best answers for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Thank you, Tom, for your philanthropy, support, and dedication to bettering the lives of people with IDD. It is a truism that the test of the strength of a great society is to be found in the ways it treats its most vulnerable. At the new Golisano IDD Institute, we will hew to a simple but powerful maxim—that no person shall be defined by their limitations, but rather by their possibilities!
We have dedicated the cover story to sharing how this gift came about. For more than a half-century, the foundational work of IDD related care and research was underway at the University and Medical Center. It is because of all of those who came before us that we find ourselves with this incredible opportunity to propel into a new stratosphere and have a worldwide impact.
A few weeks before this announcement, we welcomed our current cohorts of NEUROCITY and NEUROEAST scholars to Rochester. I am proud of these successful Neuroscience Diversity programs and grateful to our dedicated faculty, postdocs, and students who spend their summer training and engaging with young minds interested in neuroscience.
I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at the Society for Neuroscience conference this fall. I hope you will be able to join us on Sunday, October 6th, for our annual Neuroscience Graduate Program event.
In Science,
