Rochester Business Journal

A greater number of women and underrepresented minorities were hired on the faculty at the University of Rochester during the 2010-2011 academic year, making incremental progress toward the university’s goals of creating more diversity in the faculty a…

Shares of Document Security Systems Inc. were down 6 percent after the company reported a net loss in its first quarter. DSS stock was trading midday at $3.12 a share, down 6.3 percent.

VirtualScopics Inc. Tuesday reported a net loss in its first quarter on revenue of $3.7 million, which was nearly flat compared with a year ago.

Manufacturing activity expanded in New York at a moderate pace in May, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Empire State Manufacturing Survey shows.

The state’s Commission on Judicial Nomination plans an informational session Wednesday in Rochester in advance of an upcoming vacancy on the state’s highest court. A seat on the court opens in January 2013 with the mandatory retirement of Court of Appe…

Bausch & Lomb Inc. has named a medical device and biotech veteran to head its California-based surgical division, company officials said Monday.

Home Properties Inc. may sell up to 4.4 million of its common share stock, filings with the Securities & Exchange Commission show.