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Brian Daboll ’97 was named the National Football League’s Coach of the Year by the Associated Press after leading the New York Giants to the playoffs in his first season.

An economics major at Rochester, Daboll guided the Giants to a 9–7–1 record and the team’s first postseason win in 11 years–a major turnaround from a 4–13 mark the year before and the team's first winning season since 2016.

His coaching path began at Rochester after he suffered a career-ending injury while playing defensive back for the Yellowjackets his junior year.

He told Review last fall, “I hung around my senior year and worked with the coaches. I loved it.” AP voting was conducted by a nationwide media panel of 50 people who regularly cover the NFL.

Recording engineer Bob Ludwig ’66E, ’01E (MM) received a 2023 Grammy Award in the category of Best Historical Album for his work as mastering engineer on the 20th-anniversary “super deluxe edition” of the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) by the band Wilco.

Renée Fleming ’83E (MM), ’11 (Honorary) won a 2023 Grammy Award in the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album category for Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene (Decca) with pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

And Kevin Puts ’94E, ’99E (DMA) won a 2023 Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category for his triple concerto Contact, which was recorded by Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Xian Zhang on the album Letters for the Future (Deutsche Grammophon).