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June 16, 2021
Alumnus joins ever-growing list of RIT graduates to win Pulitzer Prize
Evan Vucci ’00, a chief photographer for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C., helped the AP photography staff win the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for a collection of photographs from multiple U.S. cities that cohesively captures the country’s response to the police killing of George Floyd.
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June 15, 2021
Former RIT/NTID women’s soccer standout Mia White to play in Europe
Mia White, former standout player and captain of RIT’s women’s soccer team, has accepted an invitation to play in Europe for the Primera Regional Madrid league’s Sporting Club Madrid team, a pre-developmental professional academy formerly known as Football Academy Madrid. White will be the only Deaf player on the team.
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June 15, 2021
Rochester Is Revitalizing
The Greater Rochester Enterprise talks to RIT President David Munson about the important role RIT plays in growing Rochester's economy.
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June 15, 2021
RIT researcher and students participate in joint project with UR’s Laboratory of Laser Energetics
Students in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology worked alongside faculty-researcher Brian Rice this semester on designing hardware in support of cryogenic inertial confinement fusion experiments. The work, part of a larger initiative with the University of Rochester, is helping to contribute to novel thermonuclear fusion technology solutions in the area of vibration control.
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June 15, 2021
RIT to welcome record-breaking fall freshman class
Spectrum News talks to Ian Mortimer, vice president for Enrollment Management and associate provost for adult and online education, about the increase in first-year undergraduate student enrollment.
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June 15, 2021
Rochester's Black deaf community speaks up about barriers to healthcare
WXXI features Kristi Love, interpreter and director of the Randleman Program, and JT Reid, senior admissions counselor at NTID and a board member of the nonprofit Partners in Deaf Health.
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June 15, 2021
Vaccination Updates: On-Campus Clinic Set for June 23
RIT is hosting a free on-campus vaccination clinic for the Johnson and Johnson vaccine Wednesday, June 23, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Campus Center, Bamboo Rooms. Students, faculty, and staff ages 18+ are eligible to participate.
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June 11, 2021
RIT wins award to develop game design training platform as part of NASA’s Moon-to-Mars Mission
RIT faculty-researchers will develop a game-design training system that could help astronauts maintain balance, motor skills, and other cognitive functions while in space. NASA, in partnership with the National Space Grant Foundation, has selected six university teams, including RIT, to develop innovative design ideas that will help NASA advance and execute its Moon to Mars exploration objectives.
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June 11, 2021
Inside the 6 drivers fueling enrollment success at RIT
University Business features RIT for its record first-year undergraduate enrollment this fall.
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June 11, 2021
RIT professor has patent pending for color test target from U.S. Patent Office
After a decade of research, Christye Sisson, director and professor of photographic sciences, has a patent pending for the creation of a color test target using representative retinal colors designed for use in a model eye for fundus camera calibration.
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June 10, 2021
RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center acquires collection by artist Harry R. Williams
The Dyer Arts Center at NTID has acquired a collection of works by the late Deaf artist Harry R. Williams. Williams died of AIDS in 1991, and his work has rarely been seen since.
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June 10, 2021
Bob Barbato, Saunders College professor and former department chair, retires from RIT after 42 years
Professor Bob Barbato joined RIT in 1979. Since then, he has taught courses in leadership, entrepreneurship, and business ethics in more than seven countries–first taking his wife and kids with him to Ethiopia on a Fulbright scholarship, and then to RIT’s international campuses in Kosovo, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Beijing, and Dubai.