News Stories
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February 25, 2025
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RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf fosters four decades of community through Ebony Club
WHAM-TV talks about the space created for Black Deaf students
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February 25, 2025
![Five professionally dressed men stand together at an event, two wearing gold medals on orange ribbons. A large screen behind them displays 'John Traver Professorship' along with the RIT logo.]()
Ricky Figueroa honored as the inaugural John Traver Endowed Professor
An electrical engineer turned creative technologist, Ricky Figueroa is invigorated by working at the intersection of technology, the arts, and design. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research has led to success for both Figueroa and the students who pass through his classroom.
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February 25, 2025
![Smiling man in a suit and orange plaid tie stands against an orange background. Text on the right reads RIT: A conversation with incoming president Bill Sanders, Tuesday, March 4.]()
Meet RIT’s next president
RIT faculty and staff are invited to join incoming president Bill Sanders for a conversation, which includes a question-and-answer session. The open forum will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, in Ingle Auditorium.
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February 24, 2025
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Researchers explore how mechanical signals influence viral infections in lungs
The process combines virology and mechanobiology, two distinct areas of study that had not been explored at the same time but might prove to be a way to better understand disease progressions to intervene earlier and improve patient outcomes.
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February 24, 2025
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RIT women’s hockey gets long-awaited home playoff win
WROC-TV highlights the RIT women's hockey game that placed the team in the AHA semifinals.
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February 24, 2025
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RIT skates past Lindenwood to AHA semifinals
Pickin' Splinters features the RIT women's hockey team as members proceed to the Atlantic Hockey Association semifinals.
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February 21, 2025
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RIT joins statewide Empire AI consortium
RIT has joined New York state’s Empire AI consortium, a partnership of leading public and private universities to advance responsible artificial intelligence.
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February 21, 2025
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RIT Ph.D. student and visiting assistant professor driving global sustainability
Since 2008, Thiab has been an active practitioner in the field of sustainable business and contributed to several programs and initiatives focused on sustainable solutions in Jordan and more recently the United States.
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February 21, 2025
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Overleaf now available to RIT researchers
RIT faculty, staff, and students now have full access to Overleaf, an intuitive online platform that makes it easier to write, edit, and collaborate on scientific documents. The software is used by leading academic institutions around the world.
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February 21, 2025
![NASA's SPHEREx space telescope in a cleanroom, partially enclosed in a rocket payload fairing, with intricate wiring and thermal insulation visible under blue and red lighting.]()
NASA mission to explore the origins of the universe ready to launch with help from RIT
Associate Professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator of NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory, which will provide an all-sky spectral survey of galaxies and stars providing scientists with data never before received. SPHEREx also will explore the origin of water in planetary systems.
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February 21, 2025
![Scientist in blue gloves handling a petri dish while using a pipette to drop blood, overlaid with a digital DNA helix.]()
A direct attack on research funding
Rochester Beacon quotes Ryne Raffaelle, vice president for Research.
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February 20, 2025
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As AI testing grounds, Rochester’s higher ed institutions find benefits in the new tech
Rochester Business Journal speaks to Christopher Collison, Jane King Harris Endowed Professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, about RIT's AI Hub.
