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November 15, 2022
RIT names new members to its board of trustees
RIT has appointed two new members to its board of trustees: Britta MacIntosh ’89 (mechanical engineering) and Richard “Chip” Davis.
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November 15, 2022
RIT engineering alumnus is part of DART team that changed the speed and path of an asteroid
It is a powerful thing to redirect a 525-foot asteroid with a spacecraft moving at 14,000 mph, and Dmitriy Bekker ’07 BS/MS (computer engineering) was one of the engineers who made it happen.
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November 15, 2022
RIT executive and community leader Barry Culhane has died
WXXI remembers the late Barry Culhane, retired RIT administrator.
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November 15, 2022
RIT ranked among the greenest schools in the U.S. by the Princeton Review
WROC-TV talks to Neha Sood, assistant director of campus sustainability, about RIT's latest greenest schools ranking.
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November 15, 2022
Why can't we recycle more plastic products?
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Matthew Hoffman, associate professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences.
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November 14, 2022
President Munson takes to WITR airwaves
WITR-FM (89.7) will host RIT President David Munson at 3 p.m. Wednesday, continuing the “Ask Munson” series that is held throughout the academic year.
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November 14, 2022
Vote now for RIT’s tiger courier for 'Dota 2' game
RIT is vying to be the first university to develop and have a game character accepted into the wildly popular online game Dota 2. The character, or courier, in the form of a tiger, was developed in MAGIC Spell Studios by a team of former RIT students and a faculty adviser.
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November 11, 2022
Student creates ceramic work at the intersection of technology, the arts, and design
Mikey Gambino, a fifth-year student double majoring in industrial design and ceramics, is combining cutting-edge technology with the ancient art of ceramics.
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November 11, 2022
Guide to Veterans Day events around Rochester and Saturday’s parade
WHEC-TV reports on RIT's 11th annual Veterans Day Breakfast Nov. 11. The keynote speaker was Chad Van Gorder, the director of RIT’s new Office of Veteran Student Success.
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November 11, 2022
RIT held annual Veteran’s Day Breakfast at Gordon Field House
WROC-TV reports on RIT's annual Veteran’s Day Breakfast Nov. 11. It centered around the theme “we are safe and secure because of you.”
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November 11, 2022
Doug Peacock Scholarship provides student support to branch out
Christine Jones, a third-year management information systems student from Inkster, Mich., was awarded the Doug Peacock Scholarship. The scholarship helps underrepresented students at RIT.
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November 11, 2022
RIT student Vincent Alban claims title of College Photographer of the Year
Three students and one alumnus from RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences took home 12 awards from the annual College Photographer of the Year competition—including the top placement of College Photographer of the Year.