News Stories
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April 12, 2018
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Associate professor brings positive energy to ECTET courses
Steven Ciccarelli is being honored with a 2018 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. -
April 12, 2018
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Visiting lecturer honored with outstanding teaching award
Philip Gelsomino will receive RIT’s Outstanding Teaching Award for Non-Tenure Track Faculty during a ceremony on April 17. -
April 12, 2018
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RIT honors outstanding professors of the year
The annual Eisenhart Awards recognize members of the RIT community “who contribute significantly to student learning and academic scholarship.” An awards ceremony is set for April 17. -
April 12, 2018
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Student Spotlight: Coordinating Service Week
Meet Dan Grinthal, a fourth-year industrial design major and student coordinator for Service Week, an annual week-long service event on campus. -
April 12, 2018
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Industrial design professor combines passions at RIT
Associate Professor Alex Lobos is one of the recipients of this year’s Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. -
April 12, 2018
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Playful teaching style earns assistant professor two awards
Nathaniel Barlow is the winner of RIT’s Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Innovative Teaching with Technology Award. -
April 11, 2018
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Students compete in Microsoft Puzzle Challenge
The annual Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge will pit RIT students against more than a thousand representatives from 27 other prestigious universities. Teams each have 10 hours to solve a packet of puzzles that might include anything from crosswords and logic problems to word play and cryptograms. -
April 11, 2018
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Nicole Pannullo named 2018 Goldwater Scholar
Pannullo is the first hard-of-hearing student at RIT to be recognized as a Barry Goldwater Scholar. It is the highest undergraduate award of its kind for the fields of the natural sciences, math and engineering. -
April 10, 2018
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What’s old is new again through remanufacturing
Remanufacturing involves rigorous research to make a product useful again. -
April 10, 2018
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Creating better packaging design through collaboration
Professors from packaging science, graphic design, and industrial design worked together to provide students with a unique opportunity for collaborative design. -
April 10, 2018
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RIT experts help make computing accessible
RIT’s student and faculty researchers are working to make technology accessible for all by changing the culture of computing. -
April 10, 2018
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Metaproject lifts student designs to professional level
By partnering with industry, RIT’s industrial design department’s Metaproject teaches students the role of research at every stage of the design process. After eight years, this senior studio has proven to be a successful vehicle for fostering innovative thinking and thoughtful product design.
