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A Rochester Institute of Technology scientist has won a national award designed to recognize significant contributions in physics by scientists who are underrepresented minorities. The American Physical Society plans to present Professor Carlos Lousto with the 2019 Edward A. Bouchet ...

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For six months while her newborn daughter was battling for her life at Strong Memorial Hospital, Krystle Ellis’ bed was a chair. When she remembered to eat, it was expensive hospital food. A restroom became a makeshift shower. And when ...

Nestled on Victor’s High Street Extension is a structure dedicated to helping clients restore peace and tranquility, both mentally and physically. Formerly Woodhouse Day Spa, RELAX The Spa opened in 2017 after a complete rebranding. Owner Ed Alberts brought in ...

Dirk Hightower has missed about a week of work in his 37-year career at Children’s Institute Inc. His nearly perfect attendance is less a reflection of the requirements of the job and more about a commitment and passion for his ...

Rochester ended the year on a high note, with more jobs and a lower unemployment rate, the state Department of Labor reported this week. Rochester gained 2,700 nonfarm jobs from December 2017 to December 2018, or 0.5 percent, not seasonally ...

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U.S. Rep. Joe Morelle, D-Rochester, has been appointed to the House Budget Committee by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Budge Committee is tasked with writing the congressional budget plan, evaluating fiscal impact of legislative policy and drafting laws pertaining to the ...

Unemployment is low, companies are still hiring, consumer confidence is quite strong and a leading local economist believes the Federal Reserve may back away from interest rate hikes, yet the local housing market could remain stagnant because of the same ...

Disability Rights New York this week welcomed city officials and community members to the not-for-profit’s expanded downtown offices. “We chose Rochester to expand,” DRNY Executive Director Timothy Clune said during the event. “We also chose this location so that we ...

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Rochester’s Sydor Technologies LLC has been awarded a $150,000 contract with the federal Department of Energy for development of a transparent X-ray detector. In collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sydor will develop and commercialize a transparent X-ray camera to provide ...

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Robert Morgan says claims that he misappropriated funds within his real estate empire by hiding the proceeds from the sale of four apartment communities in Texas—accusations made by brother Herbert Morgan last summer—are “patently false.” Those mismanagement accusations were part of ...

Long before he ever ventured to the United States, long before he ever took his first engineering class at Syracuse University, and long before he ever started inspecting bridges in the real world, Cletus Ezenwa was quite sure of what ...

Cindy’s Pies started as a lark back in 1978. That first year, during the Naples Grape Festival, Cindy and Jon Trzeciak wanted to make some Christmas money by selling the local specialty, grape pie. They teamed up with Jon’s twin brother, ...

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Livingston County’s “no nonsense” car dealer is teaming with WHAM’s home repair personality on a new radio talk show. The “No Nonsense Roundtable” will feature Genesee Valley Motors owner Dom Genova and WHAM’s “Home Repair Clinic” host Jim Salmon, as ...

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Suburban office and industrial space are limited commodities in the Rochester area, according to the 2019 Market Outlook published by CBRE Rochester. The report, released this week, shows a vacancy rate of just 5.7 percent for suburban industrial space. When ...

Boston-based tech firm Catalant Technologies is set to open its newest office at Nextcorps’s Sibley Building home in February, bringing with it up to 45 jobs over the next three years. Catalant is the newest addition in a growing downtown ...