National Science Foundation Awards SUNY Poly Research Team $500,000

    SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) announced that a team of professors is receiving $500,000 in new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to facilitate development of new manufacturing methods to enable next-generation bioelectrical and biophotonic devices that can interface with living tissues. This could help enable information, such as brain electrical signals or…

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Mental Health in the Workplace: 4 Tips for Employers That Make a Big Difference for Employees

  Employers that look at the treatment of mental health with the same urgency as physical health create a culture of openness and support for their employees. Feeling overwhelmed, anxious or irritable, depressed, unable to focus, having panic attacks and/or frequent headaches can interfere with our personal and professional roles (Centers for Disease Control and…

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Mohawk Valley Latino Association Receives Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Award

  Excellus BlueCross BlueShield recently awarded Mohawk Valley Latino Association a Community Health Award of $5,000 to support La Abundancia, a communal space and garden in the Cornhill neighborhood of Utica.  This permaculture demonstration garden will be designed by 20 multicultural, multigenerational students.  These students will receive valuable horticulture training and acquire transferrable skills for…

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Sunset Wood Researching Skeletal Muscle Mass in Seniors & its Correlation with Independence

  The Community at Sunset Wood has received a donation from the Gromelski Family, to purchase an InBody 270 Body Composition Analyzer to research skeletal muscle mass and its correlation with senior citizen independence. It will be used in conjunction with Sunset Wood’s Wellness Program where seniors can participate in muscle building strength classes, balance…

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Together for Lupus Research: MMRI and the Lupus and Allied Diseases Association

  The Masonic Medical Research Institute Receives $25,000 for Lupus Research With the recruitment of Dr. Maria Kontaridis, Executive Director and Gordon K. Moe Professor and Chair of the Biomedical Research and Translational Medicine at Masonic Medical Research Institute, in 2018, research in autoimmunity, specifically focusing on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (lupus) became a priority. Little…

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