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  • April 13, 2017

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    RIT hosts Grammy-winning recording engineer

    Richard King, professor of music research at McGill University, will discuss how science influences the art of recording for the 2017 CAST Dean’s Lecture Series on April 19.

  • April 11, 2017

    Poster for "RIT Performing Artists Concert Series: Jazz from the Silver Screen"

    Rod Blumenau Quintet performs Friday

    The Rod Blumenau Quintet will perform “Jazz From the Silver Screen” on Friday as part of the Performing Artists Concert Series presented by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts.

  • March 29, 2017

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    A bright new day for NTID's Sunshine 2.0

    RIT/NTID alumnus Fred Michael Beam finds connections where others may not. As the coordinator of RIT/NTID’s traveling performance troupe Sunshine 2.0, Beam connects performing arts and science, technology, engineering and math—or STEM—themes, for deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing children and adults around the country.

  • March 22, 2017

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    Shtrykov-Tanaka Duo to perform at RIT

    Two acclaimed virtuosi—clarinetist Maksim Shtrykov and pianist Misuzu Tanaka—will perform at 8 p.m. March 31 as part of the Performing Artists Concert Series, presented by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts.

  • March 2, 2017

    Portrait of Author/Historian

    Author/historian delves into ‘West Side Story’

    Julia Foulkes, professor of history at The New School in New York, will discuss her book, A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York, as the guest speaker of The Crossroads: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on American Music Speaker Series hosted by RIT’s School of Individualized Study.

  • February 23, 2017

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    RIT hosts Step Afrika! dancers

    Ranked as one of the top African-American dance companies in the country, Step Afrika! will perform at 7 p.m. March 8 in the university’s Ingle Auditorium.

  • February 9, 2017

    People signing on stage

    Flying Words Project comes to RIT/NTID Feb. 11

    The performance artist team of Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner presents a unique combination of American Sign Language, spoken English, movement, visual theater and poetry throughout the renowned Flying Words Project, 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Panara Theatre.

  • 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 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.