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Even more than academic skills, a child’s social skills and emotional intelligence truly forecast real-life success.
This year’s lineup is focused on fun and entertaining shows for those who love performance.
Called the Whole Child, the $1.55 million effort aims to better identify and correct ineffective systems of support for parents, families and children.
Craft Cannery of Bergen and Rochester’s Sweet Pea Plant-Based Kitchen were among the other prize winners in the annual business competition.
After years as practicing physician, Michael Krasner M.D. is turning to filmmaking to explore how a group of UR medical students balance their ideals and motivations with the realities of working in a hospital.
Monroe County Executive Adam Bello has until Nov. 20 to approve or veto the Crescent map approved by county lawmakers.
The Center for Health + Technology will use the funds to develop new outcomes measures for use in therapeutic studies in a range of chronic diseases.
The Hive, a proposed collaboration of nonprofits designed to help at-risk young people and families, is in line to receive $5.8 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds.
A downward trend in the percentage of voters going to the polls continued. Statewide, Monroe County is in the middle of the pack.
Rochester’s all-Black long-form improv troupe hits the stage again this weekend.
Our region’s businesses could have a competitive edge in the new environment.
Freed from the burden of managing physical space, the antiracist education organization has been able to expand its work, says Calvin Eaton, founder and director.
The National Women’s Hall of Fame Forum will explore issues raised in the award-winning book, “Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court,” by Amy Bach, who will be among the panelists.
Parents are waiting for a final decision on reopening so they can start preparing their children and households for a school experience unlike any they have ever had.
Convened by Common Ground Health, the group includes school leaders, local government officials, health care and public health experts, nonprofits and parents from 13 counties.
If the Whole Foods Center development proposed by the Daniele Family Cos. prevails in court, can it succeed in a brick-and-mortar retail landscape transformed by online sales and the impact of COVID-19?
The University of Rochester Medical Center and Rochester Regional Health are joining a Phase III clinical trial for a vaccine candidate developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
The company’s share price rose more than 200 percent on news that a $765 million loan will enable it to launch Kodak Pharmaceuticals in Rochester.
Organizers of the startup accelerator focused on advancing next-generation optics, photonics and imaging-enabled companies have been retooling to meet a new reality. One change: The 2020 Luminate NY Finals will be held online.
Concepts that translate from business turnarounds can serve in the effort to alter the behavior of police in the community.
Testing is not necessarily available on demand. And for those who are tested, Monroe County Health Commissioner Michael Mendoza M.D. warns of “a significant false negative rate.”
The pandemic has brought an increase in the number of individuals suffering from anxiety and depression. Those already diagnosed with other mental health issues appear to be more vulnerable to these disorders.
In the third in a series of online forums presented by the Rochester Beacon and Upstate Venture Connect, St. John Fisher College president Gerard Rooney and two upstate peers will discuss how they are managing their institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biologists Dragony Fu and Jack Werren will study how the coronavirus interacts with proteins in human cells. The work could help in the development of effective treatments and vaccines.