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In October, Soon Park M.D. stepped up to serve as Rochester General Hospital’s heart failure surgical director, at about the same time Kevin Casey M.D. was promoted to the position of hospital president. Park and Casey, coincidentally, were both in ...

When a small company in New York has a bright idea for a new food product, it typically turns to Olga Padilla-Zakour. When a large company, like Wegmans, is thinking of adding a new product line or a new vendor, it ...

Tagged with: Cornell Agritech Cornell Food Venture Center John Luker Kathleen O'Connell-Cahill NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets Olga Padilla-Zakour wegmans

  It’s easy to see why Todd Barnum’s staff speaks highly of him. Affable and outgoing, Barnum comes across as a glass-half-full kind of leader. But Barnum might best be described as collaborative; he surrounds himself with people whose talents ...

  It’s a big time for Rochester General Hospital, as the Rochester Regional Health flagship inches closer to the opening of the $253 million Sands-Constellation Center for Critical Care. Along with that are a pledge to hit 100 percent renewable ...

He was fresh out of college and ready to make his mark, heading to Manhattan armed with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and an ambitious desire to create. Ken Glazer had the perfect launching pad for his career, too. His ...

As the new executive director of the Worker Justice Center of New York, attorney Lauren S. Deutsch is returning to her legal roots. Deutsch, 39, who had been executive director of Healthy Baby Network for four years, replaced Lewis Papenfuse, ...

Growing up the child of Chinese immigrants in Rochester and Brighton, Nancy Gong was familiar with Asian art and its emphasis on monochromatic works. Those familiar with the bus stop outside Gleason Works or the panels of glass in Rochester ...

Tagged with: architecture art glass Nancy Gong

  It’s not often that Jrlon Inc. staffers have the satisfaction of walking into a store, pointing to an item and saying, “I made that.” So when they can, it is a bit of a celebration. “We’re making components that ...

In March 2016, KeyBank announced a massive initiative, a $16.5 billion, five-year Community Benefits Plan, a three-pillared program aimed at investing in communities in the company’s corporate footprint. The plan stemmed partly from KeyBank’s acquisition of First Niagara in 2016, ...

  The walls inside the office of Lou Spiotti Jr. at Rochester Institute of Technology aren’t adorned with an endless array of championship photos of Tigers sports teams. Not enough space, perhaps. After all, Spiotti, who is executive director of ...

  Lori VanAuken is a self-proclaimed nonprofit junkie, and one glance at her professional journey illustrates the truth behind that statement. From Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Rochester to Rochester’s Child, an initiative of the Rochester Area Community Foundation, ...

  Could Susan B. Anthony have envisioned a scholar working in her name and studying how women are treated in Rwanda following genocide? Such a person exists in the new director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality ...

Tagged with: gender issues incarceration Kristin Doughty Rwanda Susan B. Anthony Institute university of rochester

Tim Confer has gone to great lengths to ensure the future growth of his business, from extending its global sales footprint to serving multiple industry sectors ranging from media to medical to the U.S. military. In fact, Confer jokes that ...

When Thomas Stander and his wife Sally bought their house in Fairport, Elton John’s version of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” had just topped the Billboard charts, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close and the Cadillac Seville ...

When Becca Delaney Johnson was in high school in suburban Syracuse and contemplating where to attend college, she explored a great many options. At one point she thought she would be a veterinarian. “I love animals,” she said, “but I ...