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April 19, 2018
Imagine RIT preview: Take bite out of food waste
The “Imagine Sustainability and... Food” exhibit at Imagine RIT on April 28 aims to educate festivalgoers on the many effects of food waste. Approximately 40 percent of edible food in the United States goes to waste. -
April 19, 2018
Student Spotlight: BioPrint club helps people and pets
Meet Sean Bellefeuille, a third-year biomedical engineering major and founding president of BioPrint, which explores 3D technologies in the medical field. -
April 19, 2018
Imagine RIT preview: Serious science in the sky
RIT’s Space Exploration program will launch the High Altitude Balloon during the Imagine RIT festival as part of a mission to map vegetation density and orientation in the Finger Lakes region. -
April 19, 2018
RIT honors its researchers
RIT honored researchers who served as principal investigators on active awards in fiscal year 2017 at an April 18 reception. Also recognized were the 19 recipients of Seed Funding Awards and 10 new inductees in RIT’s PI Millionaires. -
April 18, 2018
Potter receives prestigious grant
Peter Pincus, visiting assistant professor in the School for American Crafts, has received a Biennial Grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, a prestigious honor given to a small number of artists across the country to help them produce new work and push the boundaries of their creativity. -
April 18, 2018
RIT earns national recognition as ‘Diversity Champion’
INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine named RIT a Diversity Champion for the third consecutive year. -
April 18, 2018
RIT joins Habitat for Humanity in Framing Frenzy
Some 200 RIT students, faculty and staff members joined Flower City Habitat for Humanity to construct walls and frames for two homes to be erected in northwest Rochester. -
April 17, 2018
New book chronicles history of Imagine RIT
RIT Press is releasing a new book titled Imagine This: RIT’s Innovation and Creativity Festival that chronicles the first 10 years of the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. -
April 17, 2018
CAST celebrates alumni Rising Stars
Six alumni from RIT’s College of Applied Science and Technology were honored as Rising Stars for outstanding achievements early in their careers, for significant public service and for helping to advance the careers of new professionals. -
April 17, 2018
Imagine RIT preview: Send message to Frederick Douglass
“Anna and Frederick Douglass’s Parking (Lots of Love)” invites festival visitors to help create an art installation that will be displayed in Rochester to honor the couple’s lives. -
April 17, 2018
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 3 p.m. Wednesday. -
April 17, 2018
Alumnus becomes ninth RIT grad to win Pulitzer
David Wallace ’01, a photographer with The Arizona Republic, was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team announced Monday for explanatory reporting for a project on President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.