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August 26, 2020
RIT names alumnus Orlando Ortiz the 2020-2021 Minett Professor
RIT’s newest Frederick H. Minett Professor is an engaged alumnus, successful professional in the manufacturing industry, and highly active community volunteer. Orlando Ortiz ’04 (manufacturing engineering technology), ’08 (MBA) is the 29th person appointed to the prestigious position, established in 1991.
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August 26, 2020
Charlie Parker at 100: What to Read, Watch and Dig
The New York Times features a book by Dave Chisholm, adjunct faculty in the School of Individualized Study.
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August 25, 2020
WITR’s ‘Ask Munson’ show kicks off Wednesday
WITR-FM (89.7) will host RIT President David Munson at 3 p.m. Wednesday, kicking off the “Ask Munson” series that will continue through the academic year.
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August 24, 2020
RIT COVID-19 Dashboard Available
RIT has created a COVID-19 dashboard to help better assess how to modify current practices and protocols to support the health and safety of our community.
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August 24, 2020
Surveillance testing to start Aug. 24
Keeping the RIT campus community safe from COVID-19 is crucial to keeping campus open. Students and employees are using many ways to do this: being tested, completing the Daily Health Screen, wearing masks, washing hands, and watching physical distance. The next step in efforts to identify possible areas of virus spread is the implementation of randomized testing.
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August 24, 2020
RIT launches TigerChat communication app
Face coverings can make lip reading impossible and communication difficult for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. To help improve communication, RIT/NTID’s Center on Access Technology Lab has developed the TigerChat app.
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August 24, 2020
More than 300 RIT students from travel advisory states start college in quarantine
More than 300 RIT students are starting this semester in quarantine at area hotels for 14 days because they are from a state on the New York State travel advisory list. The mandatory quarantine was imposed by New York state officials. When cleared, RIT Housing staff will help the students move to campus with help from a chartered bus company.
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August 21, 2020
Music video review: 'Pandemic Blues Improv'
City Newspaper features Sungmin Shin, adjunct faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and member of the contemporary classical chamber ensemble fivebyfive.
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August 21, 2020
Physician assistant program keeps tradition with modified coating ceremony
RIT physician assistant students from the Class of 2020 met in front of the Clinical Health Sciences Center one evening last month for a special tradition and rite of passage—the White Coat ceremony.
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August 21, 2020
Keith Jenkins updates RIT community on RIT’s antiracism and social justice efforts
Keith Jenkins, vice president and associate provost for diversity and inclusion, provided an update to the community on Tuesday about the university’s efforts on antiracism and social justice. Jenkins said that he and university leaders spent the summer engaging with students, faculty, staff, and alumni groups to generate a list of roughly 100 ideas of ways RIT can do more on these fronts.
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August 19, 2020
'I never thought it would be me.' Orlando Ortiz, wearer of many hats, named RIT Minett professor
The Democrat and Chronicle features Orlando Ortiz '04 (manufacturing engineering technology) '08 (MBA).
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August 19, 2020
How to Tell Your Native Story on a College Application
Winds of Change magazine talks to Abigail Reigner, second-year mechanical engineering student, and Sally Douglas, senior associate director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, about advice for Native American students applying to college.