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Meet, connect, and grow!

Network with fellow alumni in your area through the Rochester Connects series

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

Joanne Y. Law dressed in cap and gown on the site of the road

New optics professorship

Joanne Y. Law ’98 (PhD) has established a distinguished professorship at the University’s 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.

Dick and Vicki Schwartz standing at podium during event

Creating pivotal student experiences

This alumni couple has created transformative student experiences through support for research, internships, and life-changing opportunities.

Joanne Y. Law dressed in cap and gown on the site of the road

New optics professorship

Joanne Y. Law ’98 (PhD) has established a distinguished professorship at the University’s 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.

Dick and Vicki Schwartz standing at podium during event

Creating pivotal student experiences

This alumni couple has created transformative student experiences through support for research, internships, and life-changing opportunities.

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Piaker Family Scholarship Challenge will expand undergraduate financial aid

Rochester Trustee Steve Piaker ’84 and his wife, Randi, have committed $1 million to launch a new scholarship challenge benefiting undergraduates at the University’s Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences and School of Arts & Sciences. The Piaker Family Scholarship Challenge has the potential to generate up to $3 million in financial aid for students with demonstrated need.

Randi and Steve Piaker

Randi and Steve Piaker

Randi and Steve Piaker

Randi and Steve Piaker

Piaker Family Scholarship Challenge will expand undergraduate financial aid

Rochester Trustee Steve Piaker ’84 and his wife, Randi, have committed $1 million to launch a new scholarship challenge benefiting undergraduates at the University’s Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences and School of Arts & Sciences. The Piaker Family Scholarship Challenge has the potential to generate up to $3 million in financial aid for students with demonstrated need.

Upcoming events

June 5
EntrepreneurshipSimon Signature Event, Rochester
6 p.m. - 9 p.m. (ET)
Eisenberg Rotunda, Schlegel Hall
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June 5
NetworkingVascular Surgery Alumni Reception 2025
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. (ET)
New Orleans, LA
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June 6
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTJob Talk: Taking Advantage of Networking Plaforms
12 – 1 p.m. (ET)
Virtual
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Upcoming events

June 5
EntrepreneurshipSimon Signature Event, Rochester
6 p.m. - 9 p.m. (ET)
Eisenberg Rotunda, Schlegel Hall
See event details
June 5
NetworkingVascular Surgery Alumni Reception 2025
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. (ET)
New Orleans, LA
See event details
June 6
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTJob Talk: Taking Advantage of Networking Plaforms
12 – 1 p.m. (ET)
Virtual
See event details

Experience Rochester events

Explore all events

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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