This version of the City of Rochester website launched on June 27, 2024, and will continue to evolve as time and technology advance. We hope you find this to be an improved online experience, and we look forward to hearing your feedback. Discover Rochester, NY in the Finger Lakes vacation region. Explore Rochester's wide ranging culinary scene, festivals, shopping, family friendly attractions, comfortable hotels and more. As a world-leading research institution, the University of Rochester is where curiosity and creativity connect to spark wonder in us all. From humanities to health care, business to education, and music to engineering, we advance ideas across disciplines to make our lives, and the future, ever better. A critical suffragettes' convention was held in 1848 in nearby Seneca Falls, and Rochester was the home of Susan B. Anthony along with other notable Suffragettes such as Abigail Bush and Amy Post. The city itself played host to the Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848. [30] Rochester comprises numerous important historic buildings, the most prominent of which are the Guildhall, the Corn Exchange, Restoration House, Eastgate House, as well as Rochester Castle and Rochester Cathedral. Rochester is a city where world-changing breakthroughs meet genuine, hardworking people connected by the traditions we share, the opportunities we embrace, and the progress we seek. Rochester's Discrete portfolio consists of about 5 billion units comprised of over 40,000-part numbers. Products include transistors, diodes, and protection and termination devices, covering a full range of power, performance, and temperature ratings.