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April 17, 2019
Imagine RIT Preview: Virtual Bugs
When the Seneca Park Zoo Society needed a way to create detailed 3D computer models of rare insects from Madagascar, they turned to RIT’s imaging science program for help. A multidisciplinary team of first-year students designed and built a new system to tackle the problem and will showcase the final product at the Imagine RIT festival.
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April 17, 2019
Innovative suspension system for off-road vehicles takes top spot in spring Tiger Tank competition
A uniquely designed magnetic coil piston that will improve suspension systems in on- and off-road vehicles took first place in RIT’s semi-annual Tiger Tank entrepreneurship competition. Sponsored by RIT’s Saunders College of Business and hosted by RIT’s Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tiger Tank gives students the opportunity to pitch a business idea to a panel of judges with a chance to win cash prizes.
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April 17, 2019
RIT hosts 2019 Upstate NY Regional Student Conference on April 19 and 20 at Polisseni Center
Concrete canoes float—really. And bridges are more complicated to construct than putting up a few steel beams. Student-engineers who build both the unusual—yet attractive—canoes and complex bridge spans will display their designs at the 2019 Upstate New York Regional Student Conference taking place April 19-20 at RIT.
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April 17, 2019
Full steam ahead for Imagine RIT
The Rochester Beacon features Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival.
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April 17, 2019
Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd
Guest essay co-written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published in The New York Times.
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April 17, 2019
RIT students hope to open eyes with mountain of trash
WXXI reports on RIT’s waste awareness campaign.
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April 17, 2019
Connections: Reshaping Rochester - Diversity in the architecture profession
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Nana-Yaw Andoh, assistant professor of architecture.
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April 17, 2019
Earth Day feature: Painting a picture of a planet in peril
City Newspaper features photography professor Denis Defibaugh.
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April 17, 2019
RIT Tiger snaps Tiger’s roar after historic win
Tiger Woods captured his fifth Masters championship on Sunday, and Jason Getz ’98 (photojournalism) captured the image of a lifetime.
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April 16, 2019
Mahany Welding Supply donates equipment to College of Engineering Technology
Mahany Welding Supply donated two gas metal arc welding cells and two gas tungsten arc welding cells to be used within an advanced manufacturing degree program in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology to provide needed workforce skills.
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April 16, 2019
President David Munson to again emcee performing arts challenge on eve of Imagine RIT
Proving that RIT students are stars not only inside the classroom but on the stage as well, President David Munson will emcee his second performing arts competition next Friday night on the eve of the Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival.
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April 16, 2019
Rochester community invited to learn about star constellations at RIT Observatory April 22
The Rochester Institute of Technology Observatory is hosting an open house to teach members of the Rochester community how to identify constellations, the patterns of stars in the sky that mark the figures of heroes, monsters, and characters from ancient myths.