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February 20, 2023
Biography of Connecticut Sen. George P. McLean celebrates his legacy of bird conservation
Birders everywhere owe a debt of gratitude to a U.S. senator and Connecticut governor who stood up for wildlife in the early 20th century and saved billions of birds from slaughter.
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January 13, 2023
RIT Press publishes new titles in comics studies and in the Arts and Crafts Movement
RIT Press has added new titles to its two signature monograph series on comics studies and the Arts and Crafts movement: Romanticism in Comics: Faith, Myth, and Mood and The Splendid Disarray of Beauty: The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks—A study in the Arts and Crafts Community.
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November 2, 2022
Marie Golisano Graham Fund supports outreach efforts for Golisano Collection housed in RIT Archives
A gift from the Marie Golisano Graham Fund is supporting new ways for RIT to engage the public with the life and legacy of her brother, B. Thomas Golisano—Paychex founder, philanthropist, and civic leader.
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October 24, 2022
The SHED construction makes progress, surmounts challenges
The Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) will look like nothing else on the RIT campus when construction ends next year.
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October 20, 2022
‘The Buffalo Sports Curse’ examines 120 years of bad luck in new RIT Press book
Did someone put a hex on professional sports in Buffalo, N.Y.? Sports writer Greg D. Tranter thinks so. His new book makes a case for the curse, beginning in 1901, when the promise of an original American League baseball franchise in Buffalo came and went—to Boston.
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September 9, 2022
Traveling Art: Gustav Stickley’s 1903 Exhibitions
The New York Almanack features A Symbiotic Partnership: Marrying Commerce to Education at Gustav Stickley’s 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibitions by Bruce Austin, professor in the School of Communication and director of RIT Press.
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September 8, 2022
Retired RIT professor documents the healing powers of fly fishing
The Democrat and Chronicle talks to Patrick Scanlon, professor emeritus in the School of Communication, about his new book, Casting and Mending: How therapeutic fly fishing heals shattered minds and bodies.
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September 6, 2022
‘A Symbiotic Partnership’ tells the story of the first traveling art exhibition in the U.S.
RIT’s co-starring role as a venue for the nation’s very first traveling art exhibition is the subject of a new book from RIT Press.
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August 30, 2022
Therapeutic benefits of fly fishing is focus of RIT Press book
The restorative properties of fly fishing and its ability to ease suffering in people recovering from trauma, addiction, and disease are explored in a new book by lifelong fly fisherman Patrick Scanlon.
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August 24, 2022
RIT scientists develop spectral imaging techniques to help museums with conservation efforts
Scientists from RIT are turning studio photography technology on its head to help museums and other cultural heritage institutions preserve historically significant artifacts.
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June 27, 2022
Museums and libraries nationwide leveraging low-cost spectral imaging systems built by RIT
Libraries and museums across the country have begun recapturing lost and obscured text on historically significant documents thanks to low-cost spectral imaging systems developed by faculty and students at RIT.
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June 6, 2022
RIT trustee gives $500,000 to Student Hall for Exploration and Development
RIT alumnus and trustee Brooks Bower ’74 (printing) has made a gift to the multi-use complex under construction that will showcase the university as a place for technology, the arts, and design.
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