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Entrepreneur James Hammer’s gift will fund the Hammer Family Packaging and Graphic Media Center, a comprehensive, dedicated space for advancing research and learning in emerging packaging and print applications.
The teams are part of a wider federal effort to relieve overburdened medical staff straining under the burden of COVID-19 cases.
From jazz to thrash metal to “The Wiz” to the Baha’i faith to anime, the Rochester musician feels uncategorizable–and at the height of her powers when live on stage.
With a proposed new leader there, Rochester residents Pepin Accilien and Ed Hourihan hope to be able to resume helping the troubled island nation.
The Tragedy Brothers and Genesee Johnny get rugged, ragged and riff-happy on news CDs.
Nonfiction filmmaking is alive and well here, nurtured by groups like Rochester Documentary Filmmakers and high-quality academic programs.
While financial firms of all sizes offer mortgages, there are benefits to working with small local banks.
The Fairport company’s technology is designed to dramatically reduce both on-road automotive and off-road industrial and agricultural accidents to reduce fatalities and injuries.
The ability to adapt amid the virtual shift will determine which leaders and organizations thrive.
Like parents and alumni, a number of Aquinas students have taken opposing sides in the debate over the school’s approach to education. In the Beacon’s Up for Debate, two students who walked out on alumnus Robert Agostinelli’s recent talk at the school and two others who share Agostinelli’s opinion that leftist ideology now rules at the Catholic school present their views.
Kodak engineer Steven Sasson’s invention of digital photography and its aftermath still have many lessons for Rochester today. As Sasson says in an audio interview with the Beacon, nothing is forever, big changes are inevitable—and seemingly minor projects may someday become the basis for giant new industries.
Circular enerG LLC is proposing a waste-to-energy incinerator in the town of Romulus as an alternative to landfill disposal. In today’s Up for Debate, we present two opposing views on the problem of solid waste disposal and the Circular enerG proposal.
The Opportunity Zone program is designed to encourage private investment in disadvantaged neighborhoods by offering significant tax advantages.
The Venture Jobs Foundation aims to bring new low- and mid-skill jobs to Rochester’s challenged neighborhoods.
The university’s new Center for Engaged Storycraft takes an interdisciplinary approach to sharing narratives across mediums.
Yes, Rochester has remarkable assets. But trumpeting our potential can dull the frustration we should feel when we underperform and blunt our resolve to do better.
While Rochester’s nonprofits outperform the national average for return on endowment investments, they still leave significant sums on the table.
Rochester is not the only city with students born into poverty. As others have shown, great schools emerge only when they operate autonomously and when teachers and school leaders are fully accountable for student performance.
The reinvigorated Democratic Lawyers Committee is targeting the 2019 election in a bid to increase racial and gender diversity on the bench and push for criminal justice reform.
The study of individuals convicted of possessing child pornography highlights how incredibly underreported child sex abuse has been. We must remove the stigma that causes so many victims to stay quiet.
The University of Rochester Medical Center is part of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, the largest long-term study of brain development and child health ever undertaken in the United States.
A year ago, China announced that it would stop being our enabler by accepting the jumble of plastic and paper we put in those blue recycling boxes. It’s now time for each of us to take responsibility for our solid waste.
We would think that the state’s Aid and Incentives for Municipalities should be driven by a formula based on community need? If that’s the case, the formula seems to work poorly.
The “digital divide” is not defined solely by geography. Income matters too. State-of-the-art infrastructure will not bring broadband access to those who cannot afford it.