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October 22, 2017
Finding ways to enhance learning for deaf students
NTID researchers are working to improve education and provide more support for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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October 22, 2017
Optimizing the U.S. electrical grid
RIT researchers are developing a system of algorithmic computer modeling that will help policymakers produce and use electricity more efficiently. -
October 22, 2017
Undergraduates Team up with RIT Faculty on Computational Sensing Research
Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant, undergraduate students worked with RIT faculty to gain valuable experience in research projects.
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October 22, 2017
Faculty Research Yields Several Books
Research doesn’t always involve a cleanroom, white coats, or bubbling beakers. In many cases, research is done by digging through dusty documents, interviewing people, or gathering information about historical events. A culmination of such research is putting the findings in a book. -
October 19, 2017
Student Spotlight: Unique experience gets student an internship at NASA
Meet Erez Binyamin, a third-year computer engineering student who was an intern with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Systems.
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October 19, 2017
SCB dedicates Philip R. Tyler Active Learning Classroom
Saunders College of Business dedicated the new Dr. Philip R. Tyler Active Learning Classroom in honor of an associate professor emeritus of marketing who taught at RIT for 38 years. -
October 19, 2017
Staff members recognized for outstanding service
RIT honored employees for outstanding service and dedication to the university during its annual Presidential Awards for Outstanding Staff ceremony today. -
October 18, 2017
Four companies graduate from business incubator
Venture Creations, the business incubator at RIT, celebrated the launch of four new businesses: Token, Impact Earth, Optel and Turbett Surgical, which makes a surgical container, shown here, designed to save time in preparing and delivering surgical instruments to the sterile field. -
October 17, 2017
RIT celebrates 50th anniversary of ‘Flower Power’
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the day RIT alumnus Bernie Boston ’55 captured “Flower Power,” an iconic photo that would become emblematic of 1960s counterculture and anti-Vietnam War movements. The RIT Archives will commemorate the anniversary with a pop-up exhibition on Thursday. -
October 17, 2017
RIT awarded $1.3M for Veterans Upward Bound program
Area veterans will have the opportunity to attain college degrees and enter some of the area’s fastest growing employment sectors through Veterans Upward Bound, a national outreach program that will be based at RIT. -
October 17, 2017
GCCIS’ Kim Shearer wins Changing Hearts and Minds Award
Kim Shearer, director of operations and college liaison for the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, received the 2017 Changing Hearts and Minds Award for her efforts to enhance diversity among the faculty ranks and further RIT’s overall commitment to diversity. -
October 16, 2017
‘Heroes: A Video Game Symphony’ set for Oct. 26
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will continue its special video game concert series with “Heroes: A Video Game Symphony,” at 8 p.m. Oct. 26. The show is co-sponsored by RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios and Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement.