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Digital Rochester has announced its two winners for technology women of the year as Dhireesha Kudithipudi and, in the new emerging technology category, Kristen Seversky. Kudithipudi serves as director of the nanocomputing lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology, professor ...

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A lender will evaluate a number of factors when considering a potential commercial real estate, or CRE, loan. In reviewing the CRE lending process, it should be noted that commercial real estate is a financial asset and commercial enterprise, and ...

  The market for commercial real estate in the Greater Rochester area is anticipated to hold steady in 2018, with many lenders looking at office space for high-tech startups as a reliable investment. Many startups, located in the Downtown Innovation ...

As an employer and human resource professional, I see the difficulties of running a business from many perspectives. Challenges seem never-ending and come from every direction, including employees’ personal lives. Drug abuse, especially opioid addiction, is a rapidly growing challenge ...

Monroe County this year joined a growing list of municipal and county governments across the country filing lawsuits alleging drug manufacturers, distributors and doctors conspired to create a false perception of the safety and effectiveness of opioid painkillers in order ...

Nearly 100 people die each day in the United States as a result of opioid overdoses, and the social toll of those deaths and the millions of individuals suffering from opioid addiction is incalculable, but the economic impact — though ...

CurAegis Technologies Inc. is on track to have its MyCadian watch ready for sales and delivery by spring of this year, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows. The watch, part of the company’s CURA division, measures degradation of alertness ...

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Innovative and smart use of public space to enhance the quality of life in Rochester will be discussed when the 13th annual Reshaping Rochester Series kicks off on Jan. 31 with an evening lecture. Mark Nickita, a city commissioner in ...

Complainants in a sexual abuse case at the University of Rochester are included among the many women and two men featured in Time magazine’s Person of the Year profile for 2017.  The “person” in this case is a group called ...

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AmesburyTruth Inc. will lay off all 142 members of its Henrietta workforce when it closes the former Schlegel Systems plant in 2018. The Edina, Minn.-based company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retaining Notification, or WARN, with the New York State ...

Dom Genova, owner of Genesee Valley Motors in Avon, has been named secretary of the New York State Automotive Dealers Association’s board of directors. Genova has 40 years of experience in both the manufacturing and dealerships sides of the auto ...

Next month’s International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship, featuring future stars of the National Hockey League, will have an estimated economic impact of $6 million in the Buffalo area. Monroe County won’t be shut out of visitor spending, however, ...

With just over a week to go for the Rochester Rhinos to save their 2018 soccer season, efforts to raise $1.3 million in new sponsorship and ticket revenue probably are closer to Black Monday depression than Black Friday mania. Rhinos owners ...

Steven Metzger has been named chief operating officer at Labella Associates, the Rochester-based architecture and engineering firm. In his new position, Metzger will focus on the company infrastructure and information technology development, as well as expanding the LaBella footprint. LaBella Associates ...