Jeff Van Gundy has come a long way since his days of playing point guard on the basketball court at Brockport High School and Nazareth College. From coaching the NBA’s New York Knicks and Houston Rockets, to his current role ...
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How to recruit and retain a diverse workforce will be the focus of a daylong, two-session symposium on Oct. 24. The Right Talent, Right Now: Improving Business and Health Outcomes through Workforce Diversity Symposium will be held at the Memorial ...
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The new tenant at the former Mise en Place store is one of its former neighbors. TRU Yoga Studio is moving kitty-corner from its location at South Avenue and Gregory Street to occupy the former grocery store at 686 South ...
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The redevelopment of the former Inner Loop is doing more than just bringing people and vibrancy to once-ignored neighborhoods in the city of Rochester. It’s the prime example of how Rochester can begin to rid itself of a segregated divide, ...
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For decades, it was perhaps the most underutilized thoroughfare in Rochester, an urban-renewal-era roadway meant to move drivers into and out of downtown in rapid fashion. In reality, the Inner Loop was very much a moat, sans water. The sunken, ...
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Because it’s the 10th anniversary, the flashy Fashion Week Rochester (Oct. 14-19) had to shake things up a bit. The five-day extravaganza, which raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for the Center for Youth, became a six-day event, ...
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Two local power companies and the state agency that regulates them caught fire from residents attending a rate hike hearing Tuesday afternoon. Some people who attended the hearing held at Rochester’s City Hall by the New York State Public Service ...
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Nazareth College has won a $50,000 grant from the Florence M. Muller Foundation to provide developmental screenings for young children in the coming school year. The screenings of 3-year-olds are being done at in partnership with the Children’s Institute GROW-Rochester ...
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The Rochester Hispanic Business Association of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Inc. has chosen Orlando Ortiz as its 2019 Hispanic Business Person of the Year. “Mr. Ortiz is not only a businessperson as manager of component manufacturing at Gleason ...
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While fun and games are very much a part of the American Council of the Blind’s annual convention that’s taking place in Rochester this week — from a ride down the Erie Canal on the Colonial Belle to a tour of ...
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On Sarah C. Mangelsdorf’s first day as president of the University of Rochester, she took a walk around the River Campus. The first female president in the college’s history greeted reporters on the steps of Wallis Hall at 8:30 a.m. ...
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On July 1, three women will create history in the Rochester area as each one officially becomes the first woman to preside over her respective college or university.
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Anand R. Marri has been shaped by education as few people have. One semester into his new job as dean of the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester, Marri is in a position to shape education in ...
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A $10,000 grant from Avangrid Foundation, in partnership with Avangrid subsidiary Rochester Gas & Electric Corp., will pay to make some summer learning camps free at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. According to the RMSC, the grant will cover ...
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Richard Feldman, president of the University of Rochester for nearly 18 months, gave this bit of parting advice Tuesday night: “If you ever get invited to the Nobel Prize ceremony, go,” Feldman said. He was talking to an audience of ...
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