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May 9, 2022
Embracing the future
Fellow RIT Tigers: Our university has so much to celebrate! This truly is an extraordinary time for RIT with our amazing community of creators and innovators. Yet our work to build a great student-centered research university perpetually continues.
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May 9, 2022
Alumna facilitates crucial conversations as medical interpreter
Debbie Lesser '19 is a catalyst, facilitating crucial conversations taking place in often highly sensitive situations. As a certified medical interpreter, she assists deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing patients and health care providers in communicating with one another regarding everything from mental health crises to detailed complex medical procedures.
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May 9, 2022
2021-2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Christine Sun Kim
Christine Sun Kim BS ’02 is an artist and is being honored by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
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May 9, 2022
Tea business bubbling for alumni entrepreneurs
Chinese tea culture, with its rich history existing since before the third century, has always been a lifelong passion for Tian Tian and Zining Chen. The graduates of RIT’s advertising and public relations program (2017) and master’s in entrepreneurship program (2019), yearned to share their culture in a new and exciting way—by founding Taichi Bubble Tea.
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May 9, 2022
Kipman turns science fiction into science fact
Alex Kipman ’01 leads thousands of people on Microsoft’s mixed-reality team—including many RIT alumni. With the team, Kipman is working to create mixed-reality devices that allow people to have real collaborative experiences.
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May 9, 2022
2021-2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Robert Spina
Robert Spina, Ph.D., MS ’89 is chief technology officer of Bowhead Specialty Insurance and is being honored by Kate Gleason College of Engineering.
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May 9, 2022
2021-2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Ryan Bowen
Ryan Bowen BS ’08, MS ’13, Ph.D. ’16 is chief technology officer at NRGXP and is being honored by the Graduate School.
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May 9, 2022
Welcome to Minecraft Campus
Brick by brick—that’s how members of RIT’s Electronic Gaming Society have built a digital version of the RIT campus in the video game Minecraft.
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May 9, 2022
2021-2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Franklyn Athias
Franklyn Athias BS ’85 is chief technology officer and senior vice president of Xfinity Mobile Retail Convergence and is being honored by the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.
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May 9, 2022
2021-2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Laurie E. Axelrod
Laurie E. Axelrod BS ’86 is co-founder and CEO of Wheelhouse Group and is being honored by the College of Science.
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May 9, 2022
New lab studies cognitive development in children
Rain Bosworth, an assistant professor and experimental psychologist at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, has created a new research lab that will help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception in infants and young children.
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May 9, 2022
2021-2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Ted Van Horne
Ted Van Horne BS ’99 is chief operating officer of Global Medical Response and is being honored by the College of Health Sciences and Technology.