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  • January 19, 2017

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    Dyer Arts Center opens 2017 with three exhibits

    The Dyer Arts Center hosts “(Re)Invention,” a traveling exhibition from the Kennedy Center; an exhibit with works from the personal collections of faculty artists from RIT/NTID’s Visual Communication Studies Department; and an exhibit on “Shakespeare in American Deaf History.”

  • January 17, 2017

    Professor seeks to improve Ph.D. completion rates

    Casey Miller, associate professor and director of RIT’s materials science and engineering graduate program, won funding from the National Science Foundation to develop an inclusive approach to physics graduate education admission and retention of traditionally underrepresented U.S. citizens.

  • January 17, 2017

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    Engineer researches stress on cell circulation

    Jiandi Wan, an assistant professor of microsystems engineering, received a $476,505 award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to better understand blood flow and how cells moving through blood vessels are affected by pressure and friction.

  • January 16, 2017

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    RIT named core partner of new robotics institute

    RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability is a core academic partner in a new advanced robotics manufacturing institute announced by the U.S. Department of Defense on Jan. 13. The Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Innovation Hub is the 14th Manufacturing USA institute announced and seventh for RIT.

  • January 16, 2017

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    Professor discusses cyber situational awareness

    Shanchieh (Jay) Yang, department head of computer engineering at RIT, was a plenary speaker and presented a master class on “Network attack simulation: An enabler for cyber situational awareness analytics and training” at the Australasian Simulation Congress and annual conference.

  • January 13, 2017

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    RIT to expand student anti-terrorism initiative

    It’s Time: ExOut Extremism, an online initiative to combat violent extremism that started as a classroom assignment, has been awarded $149,000 from the Department of Homeland Security.

  • January 11, 2017

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    RIT experiences ingenuity at CES

    More than 170,000 tech enthusiasts gathered from around the globe to experience technology innovation at the 50th anniversary of the Consumer Electronics Show, including dozens of RIT alumni, faculty and students.

  • January 10, 2017

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    Alumnus to receive Academy Award

    Brian Cantwell ’99 (film and animation) is a member of the team at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) that will be recognized for its design and development of ILM’s facial performance-capture solving system.

  • January 10, 2017

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    Online programs score well in national rankings

    The 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings recognizes RIT on its “Best Online Graduate MBA programs,”“Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs” and “Best Online Bachelor’s Programs” lists.

  • January 9, 2017

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    Researcher presents at Consumer Electronics Show

    Callie Babbitt, associate professor in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, presented the initial results of a comprehensive materials baseline study for all consumer electronics sold into the U.S. market for the past 25 years at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7.

  • January 6, 2017

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    RIT seeks partnership with Moscow State University

    A contingent from the College of Science is meeting this week with their counterparts at Lomonosov Moscow State University, while five RIT students attend a short course on winter ecology at the Zvenigorod Biological Station outside of Moscow.