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October 7, 2016
Men’s hockey captain prepares for season opener
Meet Brady Norrish, a third-year business management major and a captain of the men’s hockey team. -
October 7, 2016
Symposium highlights female scientists
The international symposium “Global Women of Light,” organized by RIT associate professor Jie Qiao, features female scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs working in optics and photonics and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Optical Society. -
October 6, 2016
NTID audiologist earns Oticon Focus on People award
Catherine Clark, an audiologist and faculty member at NTID, is among the individuals honored by the 2016 Oticon Focus on People Awards, a national competition that celebrates people who are helping to eliminate negative stereotypes of what it means to be deaf or hard of hearing. -
October 6, 2016
RIT gets grant for nanofabrication equipment
Assistant Professor Jing Zhang received a $305,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire a new etching system for photonic, electronic and bio-device fabrication. -
October 5, 2016
RIT gets $1M grant to develop food waste solutions
Callie Babbitt, an associate professor in RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has received a nearly $1 million award from the National Science Foundation to research sustainable solutions for minimizing and managing food waste generated across the food supply chain. -
October 5, 2016
RIT honors outstanding staff members
RIT honored employees for outstanding service and dedication to the university during its annual Presidential Awards for Outstanding Staff ceremony today. -
October 4, 2016
Top stories and videos for September
News and a video about RIT’s ranking among top national universities were among the most popular last month. Check out all of September’s top stories and videos. -
October 4, 2016
Professor Josh Owen shares his ‘Lenses for Design’
Josh Owen, chair of the industrial design program, describes his unique creative process for solving design problems in his new book, Lenses for Design, published by RIT Press. -
October 3, 2016
RIT presents Robert Bringhurst with Goudy Award
Robert Bringhurst, a leading poet, typographer and linguist, is the 2016 recipient of the Frederic W. Goudy Award, given to an outstanding practitioner in type design and its related fields by RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection and School of Media Sciences. -
October 3, 2016
Women in Engineering hosts open house Nov. 5
Female engineering students from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering will host an open house for prospective students with hands-on activities, demonstrations and experiments. It is free and open to girls in grades 5-9 and their parents and teachers. -
October 3, 2016
RIT offers graduate study open house Nov. 4
RIT’s Office of Graduate and Part-time Enrollment Services is hosting an open house for undergraduate students from other colleges and universities who may be considering graduate study options. -
October 3, 2016
ACM president to open GCCIS Dean’s Lecture Series
RIT Distinguished Professor Vicki Hanson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery—the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society—will discuss the latest in computing accessibility and human-computer interaction on Oct. 14.