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  • January 4, 2017

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    Top stories and videos for December

    News about RIT’s first-ever winter glass sale was among the most popular last month. Check out all of December’s top stories and videos.

  • January 4, 2017

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    RIT to lead new Manufacturing USA Institute

    Golisano Institute for Sustainability was selected today by the U.S. Department of Energy, as part of its Manufacturing USA initiative, to lead its new Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute.

  • January 4, 2017

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    RIT’s role in REMADE Institute builds on legacy

    The selection of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability by the U.S. Energy Department to lead its new REMADE Institute on clean energy builds on the university’s already impressive legacy helping U.S. companies to compete globally.

  • January 3, 2017

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    RIT alumnus named Forbes ‘30 Under 30’

    RIT alumnus Sean Petterson landed on the prestigious 2017 Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list in manufacturing and industry. Petterson, who graduated from RIT in 2013 in industrial design, is a founder of the industrial safety products company StrongArm Technologies Inc.

  • January 3, 2017

    Poster for "Introduction to Audio Signal Processing"

    RIT Press publishes book on audio signal processing

    Introduction to Audio Signal Processing, written by RIT Professor Emeritus Warren Koontz, provides students and technical professionals with the knowledge to process audio in real time on their own computers.

  • December 23, 2016

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    Lella Vignelli dies at 82

    Lella Vignelli, who enjoyed a lifelong collaborative working relationship with her husband, the late Massimo Vignelli, and whose Vignelli Center for Design Studies placed RIT onto the international forefront of design studies, died Dec. 22.

  • December 19, 2016

    Poster for "Lost and Found"

    Gaming professor aims to enhance religious literacy

    A team of interdisciplinary researchers, designers and developers led by Owen Gottlieb, an assistant professor of interactive games and media at RIT, has created a digital prototype for Lost & Found, a strategy game that aims to promote and enhance the public understanding of religion.

  • December 19, 2016

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    Researchers study plastic pollution in Great Lakes

    A new study by Matthew Hoffman of RIT’s College of Science and Eric Hittinger of the College of Liberal Arts inventories and tracks high concentrations of plastic in the Great Lakes and could help inform cleanup efforts and target pollution prevention.