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Sarah Mangelsdorf inaugurated as 11th president – first female – at University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is not only in Rochester, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf said at her inauguration as president Friday afternoon. It’s of Rochester. And it must be for Rochester, too. “The central role of the university is the creation, preservation, and advancement of knowledge and of culture,” Mangelsdorf said in her inaugural address, but it […]
Jack DePeters to retire after 52 years at Wegmans
Jack DePeters, the most senior executive in the Wegmans corporation other than members of the family themselves, will retire at the end of 2019. DePeters, senior vice president of store operations, began working for the grocery store chain 52 years ago when he was 16 years old. That first job was a part-time position at […]
UR to begin building new performing arts center
The University of Rochester plans to begin construction next month on a new performing arts center, providing additional space for theatrical, dance and musical performances on the River Campus. The 29,000-square-foot Sloan Performing Arts Center will be built on what is currently a parking lot between Todd Union and Wilson Boulevard. The name reflects a […]
Fisher introduces hybrid online program for pharmacy
St. John Fisher is partnering with a distance-learning software company to provide a doctorate of pharmacy program that students will be able to complete with a combination of in-person and online learning. Fisher says the hybrid degree program created with 2U will the first for pharmacy in New York state and one of the few […]
MCC wins $4.4 million to train more optics technicians
A $4.4 million federal grant will help Monroe Community College turn out higher numbers of precision optics graduates. U.S. Rep. Joe Morelle, D-Rochester, announced the grant Wednesday from the Office of Naval Research for the Defense Engineering Education Program in Optics. This year MCC graduated 12 optics technicians, but that was a small percentage of the […]
Four local winners in state tourism and hospitality awards
The NY State Hospitality & Tourism Association has announced its 2019 awards, and four of them will go to Rochester-area people and entities. The awards will be presented at the association’s Stars of the Industry gala Nov. 4 at the Rivers Casino-The Landing Hotel, in Schenectady. Local winners are: Don Jeffries, President & CEO of […]
Finger Lakes Community College earns more federal support for science
Finger Lakes Community College will receive another $1.14 million from the National Science Foundation to support students learning about and pursuing careers in biotechnology. The college previously received an NSF grant of $5.8 million for its role as home base for the Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative. FLCC was tasked with developing and sharing its […]
Warner School’s new dean steps down
Less than a year into his five-year appointment as dean of University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, Anand Marri is stepping down. In a daily newsletter to the UR community, a notice about Marri said he will do research through the summer of 2020 and then relocate to be closer to family. He began […]
MatchUp Monroe aims to help college students set down roots here
For years, people in Rochester have lamented the “brain drain,” meaning the trend of young people leaving Rochester as soon as they finish college. Now there’s an app to fight that. County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo announced on Monday that the county has created a program to link college students in the Rochester area with summer […]
UR admits it violated confidentiality of witnesses in Jaeger case
Attorneys representing the University of Rochester in a sexual harassment case last week revealed the names of 23 potential witnesses whom the court had previously ruled could remain unidentified. Though the names of the witnesses are known to both sides, they were supposed to be identified publicly only by pseudonyms. Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy, […]
Wegmans opens 100th store
Wegmans opened its 100th store on Sunday, ushering thousands of North Carolinians into the “Wegmans way.” The store in Raleigh is the first of six the Rochester-based grocery store chain has planned for North Carolina, including one in West Cary scheduled to open in 2020. The new store provides jobs for 475 people. That Wegmans […]
New process could extend life of fresh milk and juice
Russian inventors working with a Rochester-area company and Purdue University are trying to bring a new technology to food processors in the United States that could extend the shelf life of refrigerated milk by weeks if not months. The technology might also make it possible for a processor of fresh juices to distribute over a […]
