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March 12, 2020
RIT Athletics cancels all spring sports competitions, practices
The RIT Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has canceled all practices and competitions (traditional and non-traditional) for the spring semester, in accordance with the community's efforts to mitigate the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
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March 12, 2020
FIRST Robotics Finger Lakes Regional at RIT is postponed
The 2020 FIRST Robotics Finger Lakes Regional, which was scheduled for Friday, March 13, and Saturday, March 14, in the RIT Gordon Field House, is postponed. The regional planning team has not indicated a rescheduled date at this time.
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March 10, 2020
Getting in Gear: Research at RIT improves gear design, materials and manufacturing operations
Gears make the industrial world go ’round. And RIT engineering faculty and doctoral students are working to keep them moving efficiently.
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March 9, 2020
POSTPONED: Small Science, Big Impact: Engineering lab celebrates 30-year anniversary
RIT's Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab is celebrating 30 years of contributing to the fields of fuel cells, microfluidic systems and infrared imaging.
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March 9, 2020
RIT professor explores the art and science of statistical machine learning
Statistical machine learning is at the core of modern-day advances in artificial intelligence, but RIT professor Ernest Fokoué argues that applying it correctly requires equal parts science and art. Fokoué emphasized the human element of statistical machine learning in his primer on the field that graced the cover of a recent edition of Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
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March 9, 2020
RIT professor designated as an American Astronomical Society Fellow
An RIT professor is being honored as one of the first American Astronomical Society Fellows. Joel Kastner, a professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics and Astronomy, is part of an initial group of more than 200 Legacy Fellows recently named by the society.
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March 8, 2020
Datto founder reflects on company's growth
WHEC-TV talks to RIT trustee and 2009 alumnus Austin McChord, founder and CEO of Datto.
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March 6, 2020
Gordon Field House abuzz with talent for 15th annual Creative Industry Day
Creative Industry Day drew an impressive array of talent seekers from the likes of The Walt Disney Co., Forbes Media and Procter & Gamble anxiously looking to meet with RIT students in a career-fair setting inside Gordon Field House yesterday.
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March 5, 2020
Student Spotlight: The voice behind the curtain of the RIT women’s hockey team
Fourth-year computing and information technologies student Andrew Bentkowski has become the voice of the RIT women’s hockey team on the radio. Announcing the play-by-play action as it happens, he never gets tired of the excitement that it brings him as a fan.
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March 5, 2020
Coronavirus updates and spring break precautions
Before many of us depart campus for spring break, we want to convey the latest information we have regarding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). We have heard directly from many in the RIT family and we want to continue to keep you well informed about the important work underway to prepare and educate our community.
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March 5, 2020
Podcast: Living History at the Genesee Country Village & Museum
Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 33: Community partnerships are one way RIT provides its students with experiential learning opportunities. James Winebrake, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and Juilee Decker, associate professor of museum studies, talk about a unique partnership between the college and one of the Finger Lakes Region’s cultural gems, the Genesee Country Village & Museum.
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March 4, 2020
RIT’s new Disability Services Office director says disability should be embraced
Disability is an identity, not a deficit. That’s the message Catherine Lewis, director of RIT’s Disability Services Office, hopes people will remember.