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  • June 9, 2017

    Student and Professor working in lab

    Student honored for 4.0 GPA

    Kimberlee Keithley, who is pursuing bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and applied mathematics, is the 2017 winner of the Norman A. Miles Scholarship, given to a student entering their last year of undergraduate study with the highest GPA across the university.

  • June 8, 2017

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    Digital humanities research gains national attention

    In the two years since RIT began offering a bachelor’s degree in digital humanities and social sciences, the first two graduates of the program received their degrees, and projects involving students, faculty and alumni connected to the new major are already garnering national attention.

  • June 7, 2017

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    RIT students win top prizes at MIT hackathon

    Archit Jha and Rohan Patel, human-computer interaction master’s students, took home top honors and cash prizes for creating apps that help those with epilepsy and mental health disorders during the MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack.

  • June 7, 2017

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    RIT receives $1M to promote diversity

    RIT has been awarded $1 million as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Initiative to increase diversity and inclusivity among undergraduate science majors and develop a strategy for supporting their success.

  • June 5, 2017

    Cover of Vignelli: From A to Z

    RIT Press to bring Vignelli book back into print

    RIT Press and an enthusiastic group of crowdfunders have revitalized a book that profiles the most iconic work of world-renowned Italian designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli. This August, RIT Press will release an exact reprint of the original, 196-page Vignelli: From A to Z.

  • June 5, 2017

    Drawing new insights from gravitational waves

    Richard O’Shaughnessy and collaborators reanalyzed the merging black holes detected by LIGO last year, linking the black hole’s misalignment to when it formed from the death of a massive star. The force expelled the newborn black hole with a “natal kick,” causing the misalignment.

  • May 26, 2017

    Portrait of Irene Sterian

    RIT hosts ‘Enabling the Digital World’ conference

    RIT is expanding its partnership with ASM Systems focusing on next-generation electronics manufacturing, research and workforce development. The partners are highlighting projects underway during the “Enabling the Digital World: The Future of Electronics and Manufacturing” conference.

  • May 26, 2017

    Portrait of Hyacinth “Hope” V. Drummond

    RIT appoints new member to Board of Trustees

    Hyacinth “Hope” V. Drummond, an RIT alumna, has been appointed to RIT’s Board of Trustees. Drummond also sits on the boards of directors for Sojourner House at Pathstone in Rochester and the Morrison YMCA in Charlotte, N.C.

  • May 25, 2017

    A professional, black and white photo of the UNA team with the UNA logo and the Top 100 2017 Brasil logo.

    Alumni company makes Top 100 startups list

    UNA Smart, touted by developers as an innovative way to brew coffee and tea anywhere and anytime and created by five RIT alumni, was recently named to Brazil’s Top 100 startups list.

  • May 24, 2017

    People signing documents at conference

    RIT, Seneca Park Zoo Society sign partnership

    RIT and the Seneca Park Zoo Society have announced a new strategic partnership. The collaboration formally recognizes and builds upon a relationship that has existed for years and was formalized with a memorandum of understanding to develop, promote and implement mutually beneficial projects.