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  • November 28, 2016

    Logo for "The Center for Youth"

    Donate personal care items to Center for Youth

    RIT students are collecting personal care items, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap, shavers, toilet paper and feminine hygiene products, to be donated to the Center for Youth shelter for teens. Donations are being collected on campus through Thursday.

  • November 28, 2016

    Portrait of Robert Panara on stamp

    Robert Panara to be immortalized on postage stamp

    Educator and icon Robert Panara, the first deaf faculty member of NTID, is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a stamp. The stamp features a photograph of Panara signing the word “respect” taken by RIT/NTID photographer Mark Benjamin.

  • November 23, 2016

    Poster for "The History of Individualized Education at RIT"

    Students curate exhibit on individualized education

    A class of 18 museum studies students put together “Charting One’s Course: The History of Individualized Education at RIT,” an exhibit that tells a wider narrative of RIT’s individualized education programs, which date back to the 1880s.

  • November 23, 2016

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    Public relations club members receive college credit

    RIT students who belong to the Public Relations Student Society of America are having their club meetings in a classroom this fall. They are among the first in the country to receive college credit for being members of a PRSSA chapter.

  • November 22, 2016

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    NYSP2I names Community Grants Program winners

    The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute has announced awardees of its 2016-17 Community Grants Program as part of its efforts to improve the health and environmental quality of New York state.

  • November 22, 2016

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    Professor wins grant to study the eye

    Biophysicist Moumita Das is leading a National Science Foundation-funded study to explore properties critical to the function of the vitreous humor, or gel, that fills the eye, which could lead to advances in the treatment of vision disorders, drug delivery and eye surgery.

  • November 21, 2016

    Person posing in front of IBM sign

    Ph.D. in computing and information sciences—Ken Wong

    As a research staff member at IBM Research, Wong is teaching the artificially intelligent computer system Watson—made famous by its winning run on the quiz show Jeopardy!—how to identify specific features in X-rays, MRI scans and other medical images.

  • November 21, 2016

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    Graduate works to educate through her artwork

    Remy Glock ’11 (graphic design) is using typography as a medium to educate people on the overlooked challenges of the deaf community, particularly those that arise in professional environments.

  • November 21, 2016

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    Grads shift gears from roommates to more

    Danyelle Greene ’13 and Steve Skurski ’15 weren’t always a package deal. In fact, they started out far from one when they met as housemates in 2012. The couple was married in October.

  • November 21, 2016

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    ‘Esquire’ raises a glass to graduate’s restaurant

    Chuck Cerankosky ’03 (industrial design) had never served a dinner table or bartended when he opened Good Luck restaurant in Rochester eight years ago. Recently, the restaurant was named one of the 18 best bars in America, according to Esquire magazine.