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Thank you, volunteers!

Celebrate National Volunteer Month with us this April—find events, stories, and ways to make a difference.

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Thank you, volunteers!

Celebrate National Volunteer Month with us this April—find events, stories, and ways to make a difference.

2025 Rochester Americans Honorary Captain: Bentley Vega

This young fighter battled Acute Myeloid Leukemia, a relapse, and a bone marrow transplant. Thanks to exceptional care at Golisano Children’s Hospital, he’s now in remission, facing each challenge with resilience and spirit. A lifelong hockey fan, he’s embracing a dream come true with the Amerks.

2025 Rochester Americans Honorary Captain: Bentley Vega

This young fighter battled Acute Myeloid Leukemia, a relapse, and a bone marrow transplant. Thanks to exceptional care at Golisano Children’s Hospital, he’s now in remission, facing each challenge with resilience and spirit. A lifelong hockey fan, he’s embracing a dream come true with the Amerks.

Featured stories

Featured stories

microchips being moved by tweezers to microscope

New optics professorship

Optical physicist Joe Goodman and his wife, Honmai, have established a distinguished professorship at the Institute of Optics as part of the Wyant Challenge.

A group of schoolchildren with their hands raised and their Expanded Learrning Collaboration instructors at the Memorial Art Gallery.

Beyond the museum

Cultivating creativity, curiosity, and connection through the Memorial Art Gallery’s and Rochester City School District’s Expanded Learning Collaboration.

Jamal Holtz sits and speaks to students seen from behind.

My Rochester story

Jamal Holtz ’20—former Students’ Association president, Posse Scholar, and first-generation student—offers advice on how Rochester students can ‘make their hive a home.’

Anne Moore ’70, ’74M (MD) wearing blue button shirt and light pants

Wilson Society spotlight

Forever influenced by Rochester’s distinctive approach to medical education, Anne Moore ’70, ’74M (MD) continues the legacy—helping future doctors through scholarship support.

Yaofang (Vicki) Liang smiles and looks out the window of JoyMart, the Asian grocery store and cafe she founded and runs.

Pride and JoyMart

Gratitude led Yaofang (Vicki) Liang ’23W (PhD) to open an Asian grocery store and cafe at Rochester’s College Town.

Terry Gurnett posing in front of shelves of film reels

Preserving Rochester’s sports legacy

A new project will digitize historic Yellowjacket game footage from more than 1,000 athletic contests—the oldest dating to a 1927 football game.

microchips being moved by tweezers to microscope

New optics professorship

Optical physicist Joe Goodman and his wife, Honmai, have established a distinguished professorship at the Institute of Optics as part of the Wyant Challenge.

A group of schoolchildren with their hands raised and their Expanded Learrning Collaboration instructors at the Memorial Art Gallery.

Beyond the museum

Cultivating creativity, curiosity, and connection through the Memorial Art Gallery’s and Rochester City School District’s Expanded Learning Collaboration.

Jamal Holtz sits and speaks to students seen from behind.

My Rochester story

Jamal Holtz ’20—former Students’ Association president, Posse Scholar, and first-generation student—offers advice on how Rochester students can ‘make their hive a home.’

Anne Moore ’70, ’74M (MD) wearing blue button shirt and light pants

Wilson Society spotlight

Forever influenced by Rochester’s distinctive approach to medical education, Anne Moore ’70, ’74M (MD) continues the legacy—helping future doctors through scholarship support.

Yaofang (Vicki) Liang smiles and looks out the window of JoyMart, the Asian grocery store and cafe she founded and runs.

Pride and JoyMart

Gratitude led Yaofang (Vicki) Liang ’23W (PhD) to open an Asian grocery store and cafe at Rochester’s College Town.

Terry Gurnett posing in front of shelves of film reels

Preserving Rochester’s sports legacy

A new project will digitize historic Yellowjacket game footage from more than 1,000 athletic contests—the oldest dating to a 1927 football game.

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University’s Wilmot Cancer Institute earns prestigious National Cancer Institute designation

The new classification places Rochester among the top 4 percent of cancer centers in the United States. With it, Wilmot joins an elite group of institutions recognized after a rigorous evaluation for excellence in research, community engagement, education and training, and life-saving care.

Exterior view of Wilmot Cancer Institute, a designated National Cancer Institute cancer center.
Exterior view of Wilmot Cancer Institute, a designated National Cancer Institute cancer center.

University’s Wilmot Cancer Institute earns prestigious National Cancer Institute designation

The new classification places Rochester among the top 4 percent of cancer centers in the United States. With it, Wilmot joins an elite group of institutions recognized after a rigorous evaluation for excellence in research, community engagement, education and training, and life-saving care.

Upcoming events

April 9
Arts2025 Ferrari Humanities Symposium Keynote Lecture
5 p.m. (ET)
University of Rochester
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April 15
Professional DevelopmentReal Estate Network presents: The state of affordable housing
8:30 – 10:30 a.m. (ET)
New York, NY
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April 19
EngagementNew England Women's Network: Battle of Lexington reenactment
2:45 – 9 a.m. (ET)
Lexington, MA
See event details

Experience Rochester events

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Upcoming events

April 9
Arts2025 Ferrari Humanities Symposium Keynote Lecture
5 p.m. (ET)
University of Rochester
See event details
April 15
Professional DevelopmentReal Estate Network presents: The state of affordable housing
8:30 – 10:30 a.m. (ET)
New York, NY
See event details
April 19
EngagementNew England Women's Network: Battle of Lexington reenactment
2:45 – 9 a.m. (ET)
Lexington, MA
See event details

Experience Rochester events

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The Sloan Performing Arts Center

The 30,000-square-foot Sloan Performing Arts Center had its soft opening at the end of August, adding a much-anticipated new building to the University of Rochester’s River Campus in time for the fall semester. The building will be fully functional by the end of the calendar year. The Sloan Center is made possible thanks to the generosity of University Life Trustee Thomas Sloan ’65, ’67 (MS) and Linda Sloan ’67 and other lead donors. Read more about the Sloan Center and get a behind-the-scenes look at artist Jay Yan’s installation of a specially commissioned mosaic that will span most of the building’s interior.

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front entrance of the sloan performing arts center with student on scooter riding by the entrance
front entrance of the sloan performing arts center with student on scooter riding by the entrance

The Sloan Performing Arts Center

The 30,000-square-foot Sloan Performing Arts Center had its soft opening at the end of August, adding a much-anticipated new building to the University of Rochester’s River Campus in time for the fall semester. The building will be fully functional by the end of the calendar year. The Sloan Center is made possible thanks to the generosity of University Life Trustee Thomas Sloan ’65, ’67 (MS) and Linda Sloan ’67 and other lead donors. Read more about the Sloan Center and get a behind-the-scenes look at artist Jay Yan’s installation of a specially commissioned mosaic that will span most of the building’s interior.

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