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May 7, 2021
RIT grad donates another $1.8 million to school
The Rochester Business Journal features alumnus Chance Wright ’18, ’19, who made a $1.8 million donation to RIT’s Saunders College of Business.
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May 7, 2021
RIT alumnus donates $1.8 million to renovate, expand business college
WHAM-TV features alumnus Chance Wright ’18, ’19, who made a $1.8 million donation to RIT’s Saunders College of Business.
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May 7, 2021
First class of RIT Undergraduate Research Scholars will be recognized at 2021 graduation
Forty members of the inaugural class of Undergraduate Research Scholar Awardees will be honored at this year’s graduation ceremonies. The recognition highlights their accomplishments in a variety of complex and demanding research areas during their time at RIT.
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May 7, 2021
Home grown leader builds a people-oriented industrial engineering career
Laura Discavage originally wanted to go to an out-of-state college, but RIT’s engineering program intrigued her. She learned about RIT while growing up from her mom, Maria Burgio ’87 (computer science). And after a conversation with a family friend about his work as an industrial engineer, she applied to RIT, and found the community she was seeking.
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May 7, 2021
Computing graduate inspired to help others after losing grandfather to COVID
Monika Verma has dedicated her capstone project to COVID patients across the world, after the pandemic hit too close to home for her last year. The graduating human-computer interaction master’s student is drawing from her family’s experience with COVID in hopes of finding ways to help others in similar situations.
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May 6, 2021
New media design graduate taking talents to Amazon Web Services
While she’ll look back on the pandemic as a most challenging time, graduating new media design student Stephanie Liu also takes pride in knowing how well she rose to the occasion. At the culmination of her internship with Amazon Web Services, the Chicago native was offered a full-time position as a user experience (UX) designer, starting in July.
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May 6, 2021
Modular 3D-printed instruments allow science students to conduct experiments at home
How do you teach students to use scientific instrumentation when a pandemic forces classes online and the students have no access to the usual lab or analytic equipment? Adjunct Professor Bruce Kahn found a creative solution this spring while teaching an experimental techniques class.
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May 6, 2021
Goodbye, Goodbuy! sustainability effort returns to RIT
After a year off due to the pandemic, the popular Goodbye, Goodbuy! sustainability program returns to RIT. Students moving out of their housing on campus are urged to donate their unwanted items rather than throw them away.
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May 5, 2021
Hacking for Defense program seeks to connect university minds with DoD, intel community
Military Embedded Systems magazine talks with James Santa about RIT’s Hacking 4 Defense class, sponsored by the Department of Defense via the Common Mission Project.
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May 5, 2021
Video exhibits remain online for Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival
If you couldn’t tune in to this year’s Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival which was held virtually on Saturday, not to worry. The more than 250 exhibits of projects, research, and performing arts of more than 800 students, faculty, and staff will remain online for the foreseeable future and are free to access.
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May 5, 2021
Performing arts is center stage in NTID graduate’s student life and career
RIT/NTID student Shaylee Fogelberg has always loved being in the spotlight. And she plans to continue to shine at the prestigious IRT Theater in Greenwich Village after she graduates this spring with a degree in design and imaging technology in NTID’s visual communications studies program.
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May 5, 2021
Museum studies graduate will attend top-ranked master’s program for archives and preservation
Katie Keegan has always been a fan of history. As a child growing up in Ithaca, N.Y., Keegan would ask her parents to plan family vacations to museums or historical sites, not Disneyworld or the beach. So when it was time for Keegan to decide on a college major, her parents suggested museum studies.