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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.
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April 16, 2019
Student groups organize event to educate campus on better ways to manage trash
Engineers for a Sustainable World and RIT Student Government are partnering on a Waste Awareness Campaign that involves displaying a day’s worth of trash collected from around the campus. One site will hold a pile of recycling, the other a pile of what goes to the landfill.
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April 16, 2019
President Munson to field questions on WITR radio show
WITR-FM (89.7) presents Ask Munson, featuring RIT’s president taking listener questions live at 2:30 p.m. April 17.
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April 15, 2019
First-ever ‘futurists’ symposium features alumni trailblazers at Imagine RIT
“The Future of Technology, the Arts and Design,” a futurists symposium, takes place at 11 a.m. April 27 during Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival. Four RIT alumni will share their visions of the future as it relates to RIT’s core disciplines.
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April 15, 2019
RIT Digital Games Hub seeks to make Rochester a video-game haven
Rochester Business Journal features the RIT Digital Games Hub.
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April 15, 2019
NASA backs 18 new space technology projects for further research
New Atlas reports that NASA will fund a diffractive lightsails research project by Grover Swartzlander, professor in RIT's Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.
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April 15, 2019
RIT launches first rainwater collection
WROC-TV reports on student volunteer work from RIT's chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.
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April 15, 2019
RIT students build a better irrigation system for city garden
WHEC-TV reports on a new rainwater collection system constructed by the RIT chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.
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April 15, 2019
Researchers Develop New Form of Laser for Sound
R&D Magazine talks to Mishkat Bhattacharya, associate professor of physics, about his research to create a laser for sound.
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April 12, 2019
It’s beach clean-up season! When and where to help Lake Erie
Cleveland.com cites research by Matthew Hoffman, associate professor of applied and computational mathematics, and Eric Hittinger, associate professor of public policy.