RIT is getting $600,000 in federal research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter says the same batch of awards will mean more than $50,000 for the UofR and more than $5,000 for Rochester General Hospital.
Slaughter used her senior position in the Congressional Arts Caucus to secure the money. And she says she will fight efforts by the Trump administration to eventually eliminate funds for the NEH.