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The resident string quartet of the Eastman School of Music for two decades will reunite for the school’s James E. Clark Chamber Music Residency.
Ancestral roots that reach to Ukrainian soil trigger strong emotions in the wake of the Russian invasion—as do memories of stories told by a grandmother about horrors committed a century ago.
The project will triple the size of its emergency department and add more than 100 new, private inpatient rooms. In total, the project is expected to cost $641 million.
A recent survey conducted by the Rochester Education Fellowship highlights the importance of social and emotional support for students, as well as career-linked education programs.
The $83 million included in the omnibus spending package will support some 900 jobs for scientists, engineers, technicians and staff.
While different in scope, two new initiatives—one across multiple cities and one centered in Rochester—have a similar focus.
The research team’s work focuses on advanced avoidance and communication strategies for multiple robots and humans in the warehouse environment.
Sidelined for two summers by the pandemic, the Rochester International Jazz Festival will return this year—and a full slate of big shows will be free.
Research teams in the United States and Canada recently participated in the unprecedented Winter Grab, an effort to preserve the Great Lakes.
With the help of the Metro Collective, a new digital platform, businesses across shared workspaces in Upstate New York connect to brainstorm ideas and establish a sense of community.
Visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., can see a number of items—often both beautiful and important—whose roots can be traced to Rochester.
The superintendent candidate forum’s format appears to have been designed to ensure that students, parents and RCSD employees as well as other community members are heard equally. The event’s tightly controlled format may not satisfy attendees hoping to directly quiz the candidates, however.
Charters stand ready to be partners in the difficult work that faces the Rochester education community. Most successful models of urban education reform have embraced charters, as well as many other innovative models.
Teaching entrepreneurship lays the foundation for developing critical skills related to the creativity, persuasion and persistence one needs for success.
A local solution to the Rochester city schools crisis is beyond local reach. Power is too fragmented to permit substantive change. It’s time for New York to declare an educational emergency and establish receivership for the district.
The hip hop musical’s traveling production delivers its potent historical narrative with intricate choreography and superb vocal performances.
In economic development circles, the belief that a rising tide lifts all boats is an article of faith. But new research shows that in the recovery from the Great Recession, the gains have not been distributed equally.
Isaac Julien’s video installation tells a visually splendid story, but doesn’t ground Douglass in his marriage, his children, his Blackness. It evades the hideousness and savagery of bondage and forced labor, in order to construct mythic imagery.
Research shows integration. Segregation has terrible consequences, not just for children trapped in high-poverty, poor-performing schools, but for our entire community.
Speaking at a recent RIT symposium, two renowned political philosophers—Robert George and Cornel West—with diametrically opposed ideologies spoke of the urgent need to counter fierce tribalism and civic division.
Christopher Cerf was a key figure in efforts to turn around the long-ailing public schools in Newark, N.J. Under state control, Newark’s reform efforts targeted chronically poor graduation rates and low test scores. Next month, Cerf will deliver a keynote speech here detailing his Newark experience.
When the Rochester Beacon launched on Oct. 18, it did so with a very lean budget, all-volunteer staff—and no guarantees of survival. Six months later, the Beacon is on track to exceed some of its most ambitious first-year goals.
Returning for its 12th year, the annual festival has become a major showcase for creativity, innovation and problem-solving involving science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math.
Privacy law is picking up steam across the country and abroad, with numerous bills threatening hefty fines or consumer class-action liability for noncompliance. Because compliance takes time, businesses must begin efforts now to comply with privacy laws not yet in force, even while it remains unclear who it is that will ultimately do the regulating.