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  • April 4, 2017

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    Image Permanence Institute names new director

    Jennifer Jae Gutierrez, who most recently served as the Arthur J. Bell Senior Photograph Conservator for the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has been named executive director of the Image Permanence Institute and begins her new position on Monday.

  • April 3, 2017

    Entrance to "Kilian J and Caroline F Schmit Interfaith Center"

    Top stories and videos for March

    News and a video about RIT’s carillon bell system were among the most read and watched last month. Check out all of March’s top stories and videos.

  • March 31, 2017

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    Benjamin Lawrance named ACLS Fellow

    Benjamin Lawrance, the Hon. Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies, has been named a 2017 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and is the first RIT faculty member to receive an ACLS Fellowship.

  • March 31, 2017

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    RIT to get Humanities Connections grant

    The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a $91,000 grant to RIT to help students focus on the historical, economic and cultural meanings of community in and beyond Rochester.

  • March 31, 2017

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    GE #BalanceTheEquation tour stops by RIT Monday

    Women scientists and engineers from GE will stop at RIT on Monday to talk to female RIT students as part of the GE #BalanceTheEquation tour. The event will provide students an opportunity to network with GE leaders and RIT alumnae working at GE to learn what it means to join the technical workforce.

  • March 31, 2017

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    IdeaLab teams proposed healthcare solutions

    Twenty-one RIT students from multiple disciplines participated in the spring IdeaLab@RIT, held March 25-26, and developed possible solutions to challenges provided to them by Rochester Regional Health patients and healthcare personnel.

  • March 31, 2017

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    Women in Business hosts etiquette dinner

    Meet Harianne Hewitt, a second-year double major in business management and international hospitality and service management and president of the Women in Business club.

  • March 30, 2017

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    Business alumna named to ‘Forbes’ list

    Merrill Lynch financial advisor Fern (Grossman) Schwartz ’77 (business administration) has been named to the Forbes list of “America’s Top Women Wealth Advisors” for 2017.

  • March 29, 2017

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    Researchers study carbon nanotubes as water filters

    Enhanced single-walled carbon nanotubes offer a more effective and sustainable approach to water treatment and remediation than the standard industry materials—silicon gels and activated carbon—according to a paper by RIT researchers John-David Rocha and Reginald Rogers.

  • March 29, 2017

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    A bright new day for NTID's Sunshine 2.0

    RIT/NTID alumnus Fred Michael Beam finds connections where others may not. As the coordinator of RIT/NTID’s traveling performance troupe Sunshine 2.0, Beam connects performing arts and science, technology, engineering and math—or STEM—themes, for deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing children and adults around the country.

  • March 29, 2017

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    Preparing students on autism spectrum for success

    RIT is one of the leading universities in the nation in preparing students on the autism spectrum for professional success. Its strength stems from a combination of the Spectrum Support Program and the cooperative education program.