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Accomplished alumni are returning to campus to discuss the future of technology, art, and design as part of the Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival on April 23. The Imagine RIT Futurists Symposium is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Wegmans Theater, RIT MAGIC Center. It will also be available to watch as a livestream.

Walking into the extra-large classrooms in the Student Hall for Exploration and Development (the SHED) will be a new experience for students and faculty alike when the multi-use complex opens its doors in fall 2023. Faculty can preview the new learning environment during the 2022-2023 academic year by teaching in a large-capacity learning space designed to simulate the new active learning spaces in the SHED.

The course Honors Science and the Law: Biological, Ethical and Legal Perspectives emphasizes how science permeates the profession of law and concludes with a mock trial, giving students the opportunity to use scientific evidence like cell phone triangulation, medical assessments, and crash reconstruction in the context of a real case.

The New York Post features a Hubble Space Telescope image created by an RIT team led by Joel Kastner, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.

Abdullah al Faruque, associate professor in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology, is being honored with the 2022 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s highest honor for tenured faculty.

Jan van Aardt, professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, is being honored with the 2022 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s highest honor for tenured faculty.

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, is being honored with the 2022 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. RIT presents this annual award to a faculty member who has spent less than three years as full-time tenure-track and who has demonstrated exemplary teaching methods and contributions to student development.

WHEC-TV features the Batman of San Jose, an RIT student who provides food and supplies to the homeless and who wishes to remain anonymous.

WXXI features RIT's announcement to create a School of Performing Arts.

WHAM-TV features photographic and imaging arts student Sydney Lewandowski.

RIT is creating a School of Performing Arts to offer additional creative opportunities for thousands of students who wish to pursue their passions in performance while majoring in a range of other fields. The new school will be housed within RIT’s College of Liberal Arts beginning July 1, and a national search is underway for a director. 

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, headquartered at RIT since 2008, has issued a request for proposals for its Research and Development program from the organization’s partner universities—RIT, Binghamton University, Clarkson University, Cornell University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.