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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.
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April 11, 2019
TTM Technologies Inc. makes donation to RIT for research fellowships
The donation will fund doctoral student research in advancing microwave and antenna technology for wireless and space or defense applications.
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April 11, 2019
RIT honors three as inaugural class of Distinguished Faculty
RIT announced John Klofas, Bruce Smith and Josh Owen as its first class of Distinguished Faculty, leaders who have provided insights and solutions to today’s criminal justice issues, produced groundbreaking work in nanolithography and developed exciting industrial design innovations.
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April 11, 2019
RIT students embrace Service Week with a Framing Frenzy
Some 200 RIT students, faculty and staff members participated in “Framing Frenzy” to build walls and frames for two two-story houses for Flower City Habitat for Humanity.
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April 10, 2019
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection hosts exhibit and celebration of the RIT Albers Murals
The RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection today will host a tribute to the artist who painted RIT’s iconic orange-and-yellow murals, paintings that hold historical significance to the art world and the campus.