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November 18, 2019
Former Urban League of Rochester President and CEO William Clark named RIT Minett Professor
The Minett Professorship brings distinguished Rochester-area multicultural professionals to the RIT campus to share their professional knowledge and experience with RIT’s students, faculty and staff for one academic year.
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November 18, 2019
Learning from Industry: Employers keep RIT’s curriculum forward-looking
For the last several decades, volunteer groups have played a pivotal role in keeping RIT’s curriculum relevant and current with the latest industry trends. The groups of 10 to 30 leaders from a wide variety of companies come together a few times a year to offer their insights for RIT faculty and staff in nearly every college.
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November 18, 2019
From Archery to Zumba, RIT redefines wellness
RIT requires all undergraduates on its Rochester campus to complete two wellness courses before they can graduate. There are more than 180 wellness course options, and the goal is for students to appreciate a healthy lifestyle that will last long after they graduate.
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November 18, 2019
Researchers prepare rocket for launch
A team of RIT researchers is helping launch an experiment above the atmosphere to better understand extragalactic background light, which traces the history of galaxies back to the formation of the first stars in the universe.
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November 18, 2019
A conversation with Steve Hoover
Steve Hoover, who was recently named the Katherine Johnson Executive Director of RIT’s new Global Cybersecurity Institute, is bringing together academia and industry to help tackle the world’s cybersecurity problems.
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November 18, 2019
Tiger Love: Couple celebrates 50 years of crafting a business
Winifred “Winnie” (Gray) Bixler ’69 (art and design) and Michael Bixler ’69 (printing) run the Bixler Press and Letterfoundry, where they do Monotype typesetting, fine letterpress printing, traditional book typography, and offer classes in book arts.
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November 17, 2019
RIT’s Dept. 42 offers a place for ‘non-religious’ students to find answers
Sometimes the answer lies within. In an effort to engage the more than 35 percent of undergraduate students who consider themselves “non-religious,” a new, somewhat nebulous group has formed at RIT to help them find secular answers for themselves.
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November 17, 2019
Largest all-girl hackathon held in Rochester
WHAM-TV reports on the ROCGirlHacks event at RIT.
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November 14, 2019
Alumni reflect 30 years after Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science opened its doors
The Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science became the only place in the world where students could pursue degrees in the interdisciplinary field of imaging science when it opened its doors in 1989. Thirty years later, alumni returned to campus for a celebration and interactive open house during Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend.
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November 14, 2019
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. student receives two awards for research
While attending the 2019 American Electrophoresis Society (AES) annual meeting at the Scix conference, Nicole Hill, a microsystems engineering doctoral student, received two awards for her research: The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) first place Poster Award and the Wiley Innovation Award.
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November 14, 2019
Graduate Education Week focuses on networking, professional development and research
A week of events at RIT will recognize its growing community of master's and Ph.D. students and the high-level scholarship conducted on campus.
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November 13, 2019
Day of Thanks highlights donor appreciation
The month of November is traditionally a time to think about what you’re thankful for. On Nov. 15, the National Day of Philanthropy, RIT will spend the day celebrating its generous donors during the Day of Thanks.