The University of Rochester recently ranked among the top 25 graduate schools best for entrepreneurship studies by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. Babson College finished #1 on the graduate entrepreneurship programs list – a distinction it last earned in 2013. UR was No. 17. The Princeton Review tallied its 2019 lists based on surveys it conducted from July […]
NextCorps starts its Innovation Week with the Innovation Showcase powered by AT&T, the first in a series of entrepreneur-focused events. Beginning at 4:00 p.m. at NextCorps, local entrepreneurs from NextCorps’ startup incubator, Monroe County’s the Entrepreneur’s Network, RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and its Venture Creations, and Cornell’s Tech Farm will display their technology innovations. Keynote […]
NextCorps is gearing up to join more than 170 countries in helping people make their mark during Global Entrepreneurship Week. To support GEW, NextCorps will hold an Innovation Week, Nov. 12-17, to foster connections, collaboration and awareness of the many resources and programs available to entrepreneurs and startups in the area. During #GEW2018, approximately 35,000 […]
Researchers have developed a new digital stethoscope that combines precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology and machine learning applications into one piece of equipment to better detect heart ailments and problems that might occur with an implanted heart pump. Jason Kolodziej and Steven Day, engineering professors at Rochester Institute of Technology, worked with Karl Schwarz, cardiologist and […]
The University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have each won $1 million as part of the state’s Energy to Lead Competition. The competition challenges New York colleges and universities across the state to develop plans for local clean energy projects on campus and in their communities as New York seeks innovative solutions to […]
Paul Romer, who began his career at the University of Rochester has been named a recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Currently a professor at New York University, Romer and William Nordhaus, a professor of economics at Yale University, will share the 2018 prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. […]
With a $9.2 million award, the University of Rochester has been selected as a Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson’s Disease Research by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The funds bring together researchers from industry and multiple academic institutions to focus on the development of digital tools to enhance understanding […]
A University of Rochester graduate and a former faculty member have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for work they undertook at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Donna Strickland, who received her doctorate in optics from Rochester in 1989 and is now a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, and Gérard Mourou, a […]
A new $25 million Finger Lakes Forward Venture Capital Fund has been established to provide early stage capital investments for startup companies in key high-tech industries. The fund will be managed by Excell Technology Ventures, an offshoot of Excell Partners, and was a priority project identified to help increase access to capital for growing companies in […]
Research teams at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center will share a five-year federal grant of more than $19 million to create the nation’s first program dedicated to the study of flavored tobacco. One of only nine projects to earn funding through the federal Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science program, […]