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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.
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April 12, 2019
Alumni tour Iceland by design
Professor Josh Owen led an eight-day design-centric tour of Iceland during its biggest design festival called DesignMarch. The group of 17 went on design-focused tours of Reykjavík, met with local designers and attended design presentations and workshops.
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April 12, 2019
RIT honors researchers
RIT honored researchers who served as principal investigators on active awards in fiscal year 2018 at an April 11 reception. Also recognized were the 20 recipients of Seed Funding Awards and 12 new inductees in RIT’s PI Millionaires.
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April 12, 2019
RIT researcher collaborates with UR to develop new form of laser for sound
The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical tweezing and Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for work with pulsed lasers. Now an RIT researcher has teamed up with experts at the University of Rochester to create a different kind of laser – a laser for sound, using the optical tweezer technique invented by Ashkin.
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April 11, 2019
Student Spotlight: Student lands an internship at Museum of Modern Art
Meet Hana Halilaj, a third-year School of Individualized Study student, is interning for MoMA’s International Program department, which is dedicated to connecting MoMA with an international network of artists, scholars and institutions.
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April 11, 2019
Eisenhart award winner Hao Zhang is passionate about preparing students for careers
Hao Zhang, an associate professor in Saunders College of Business, is being honored with a 2019 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.
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April 11, 2019
‘Rubes’ creator to talk about curiosity and creativity at Imagine RIT festival
How does a syndicated cartoonist come up with creative ideas each day? Leigh Rubin, who has drawn Rubes cartoons for more than 30 years, will help explain his creative process during this year’s Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival on April 27.
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April 11, 2019
Projects seek to improve workplaces for disabled employees
The Times Union features RIT students Patrick Finnerty and Catherine Krawiec, part of a team that won second place in the CREATE Symposium.
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April 11, 2019
How will legal weed change New York?
WXXI talks to Nick Robertson, assistant professor of criminal justice, about cannabis regulation and prohibition in the 1930s.