Company Overview of University of Rochester

Gail M. Norris has been named vice president and general counsel for the University of Rochester. Norris' appointment, effective Jan. 1, 2013, is the result of a national search that began following the announcement of Sue Stewart's retirement, effective Dec. 31, 2012.

Catherine Cerulli, who has extensive academic and legal experience in combating domestic violence and addressing victimization, has been named director of the University of Rochester's Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership. Cerulli, who joined the UR faculty in 2002 as an assistant professor with the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine and Dentistry, most recently served as director of UR's Laboratory of Interpersonal Violence and Victimization. She had joint appointments, also serving as director of research at the Women, Children and Social Justice Clinic that she co-founded in 1992 at the State University of New York at Buffalo's School of Law. Cerulli also has experience in the Monroe County District Attorney's Office, where while serving as an assistant district attorney she created a misdemeanor domestic violence unit. The center Cerulli now heads runs programs on issues of importance to women and works to overcome barriers to women in leadership. She succeeds Nora Bredes, who died in 2011 from complications from breast cancer.

University of Rochester won a $1,416,789 federal contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Canandaigua Medical Center, Canandaigua, N.Y., for cardiology services.