Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
Following his personal invitation, on April 11th, 2022, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer brought Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Rochester to tour their research facilities and meet their students and researchers to show the NSF how the Finger Lakes region is ready to drive America’s tech leadership. On the tour, Schumer explained that his bipartisan U.S. Innovation and Competition Act will make significant investments in federal research and development (R&D), STEM education and workforce training, and domestic manufacturing. The senator said that Rochester and Upstate New York are very well positioned to compete for investment from these programs to help surge U.S. innovation, which is why he brought the NSF Director to the area to show him firsthand the region’s incredible research facilities that, with further federal backing, can continue to make groundbreaking discoveries to ensure the U.S. continues to lead in critical technologies.