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In collaboration with small businesses in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona and Florida, Neighborly Gifts is proud to announce that it is expanding its gifting services ahead of the 2022 holiday season, including the launch of a new Restaurant Voucher Program.
“Being a homegrown financial institution, First Alliance really means it and is always looking for ways to help people in ways others won’t,” says Andrea Allen, Director of Lending at First Alliance Credit Union.
University of Minnesota Rochester is preparing to welcome its first cohort of students for NXT GEN MED, a new accelerated degree program in collaboration with Mayo Clinic and Google Cloud. The first-of-its-kind program begins this fall, with a limited number of spots — and opportunities for significant scholarship dollars — still available.
When it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion, the staff at First Alliance Credit Union wanted those words to go beyond corporate buzzwords. They wanted those words to be actions. And the first action they took was to listen.
A new housing development along the bustling northwest corridor of Rochester promises to offer a new standard of living for individuals 55 and better.
Nice as they may be, the Fernbrook Family Center offices are not usually busy. That isn’t because no one is seeking out mental health services (quite the opposite, in fact), but because of Fernbrook’s commitment to “meet people where they are.”
As an electronics distributor, Pace has navigated the last five decades of ceaseless progress and innovation with a familial work environment that fosters respect and responsibility. It’s a tradition passed down through three generations of the Deutsch family.
Nate Nordstrom and his family recently opened New Spin Bicycle Shop, 5335 East Frontage Road, in northwest Rochester. It’s the area’s first specialty e-bike sales and service shop.
Pal Koak, a third-year student at the University of Minnesota Rochester, is a testament to the values of patience and determination, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Its 350-acre campus is home to public galleries and a sculpture garden, as well roughly 20 local artists and art entities who rent studio space on the site. Artists also pass through on temporary bases, whether as part of a residency cohort, or as part of the center’s programming.
As outdoor events make their way back, local event organizers like Alexandria are making the most of their opportunity to showcase the rich diversity of Rochester — and the community continues to prove that it’s something they want to see. The Night Market is just the latest example.
Rochester will welcome singer-songwriter Chastity Brown to the Think Bank Down by the Riverside stage on Sunday. Inspired by her roots in Tennessee, Brown tells powerful stories through a mixture of folk, country, and soul music.
Ken Londoner says he envisions a future where BioSig’s technology is included in every cardiology clinic’s lab, with dozens of engineers and physicians working out of Rochester to build up the company’s capabilities.
Augusta Casterton, a member of the University of Minnesota Rochester’s Class of 2021, has started her post-grad life as a cardiac sonographer at Mayo Clinic — working in some of the same rooms she sat in as a child.
As a boy, Abraham Ayebo lacked an appetite for mathematics, mostly because he felt studying the subject would be a futile pursuit. “In my mind, I thought, ‘the math gene — I don’t have it,” recalls Ayebo. Over time, however, some of the variables in the equation began to change from Ayebo. With the addition of an encouraging educator and the subtraction of some self-doubt, Ayebo’s interest in math began to flourish — so much so that today he is an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Minnesota Rochester.
Prof. Amber Fiedler, an assistant nursing professor at WSU-Rochester, has spearheaded the “Save a Life: Prevent Opioid Overdose” program, which runs every second Thursday of the month. She says the free program is part of a larger goal inside her university and in the health care field at large: stymying the opioid epidemic, which has become one of the leading causes of accidental death in America.
For a group of student leaders at the University of Minnesota Rochester, the 28 days in February carry more meaning than most of the other 337 days of the year. It’s a time specifically set aside to uplift the stories and voices of Black Americans, worldwide and at home — and they plan on bringing those stories to as many people as possible in 2021.
Cyle Erie and Brian Muellner are two Rochester natives who have pursued careers in the built environment for the better part of the new millennium, working in cities across the Midwest. Now, as their hometown has grown into a first-class city, they both decided about 10 years ago to settle back into the community they knew as children to help build it from the ground up.
“It’s the freshest ice cream around,” says Yoel Topel, owner of Rochester’s Cold Stone franchises. “You can’t beat ice cream that’s made on-site on a regular basis like this.”
Students, faculty and administration from the past and present have said WSU-R feels more like a family than a normal university — a feeling that is only created through decades of dedication and hard work.
