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Butler/Till founders named first joint female recipients of Vanden Brul award
Entrepreneurs Sue Butler and Tracy Till, who co-founded Butler/Till, a media and communications agency, have been named co-recipients of the 2020 Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award. They are the first joint female recipients in the award’s 35-year history. Founded in 1998, Butler/Till, a media and communications agency headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., with an additional […]
What’s Good launches the recycled goKey
By Jill Kemp • Opening doors is a little easier and a little safer now, thanks to startup company “What’s Good” and its new germ-free door opener, “goKey.” The new door openers are created in Rochester from plastic that is actually 100 percent recycled from milk jugs and left over after another product is manufactured. […]
Finger Lakes Region poised to enter Phase IV of reopening
The Finger Lakes region, which includes Monroe County, will enter Phase IV of reopening on June 26. It joins Central New York, the Mohawk Valley, the North Country and the Southern Tier. Phase IV will allow low-risk indoor and outdoor arts and entertainment, film and TV production, higher education and professional sports without fans. Guidance for […]
Business operations return at Venture Creations
As part of Govenor Andrew Cuomo’s reopening plan, Rochester Institute of Technology’s Venture Creations business incubator has now resumed operations. All Venture Creations staff, resident clients and resident graduate companies must provide administrators with a COVID-19 safe operation plan. These plans must be based on safety guidelines from New York state and the Centers for […]
Rochester native Dr. Michael J. Cumbo named CEO at AIM Photonics
Dr. Michael J. Cumbo has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics). This appointment, which is effective July 6, 2020, was announced by NY CREATES (New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Technology, Engineering and Science). The company, AIM Photonics, is a Photonic Integrated Chip (PIC) […]
Eye-tracking technology aims to help restore vision
Using virtual reality tools, Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Rochester researchers aim to help restore vision for people with stroke-induced blindness. The team, led by Gabriel Diaz, associate professor at RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a method they believe […]