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  • December 5, 2016

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    RIT joins Scholars at Risk network

    Scholars at Risk is an international network of over 400 higher education institutions in 40 countries that promotes academic freedom and protects more than 300 threatened scholars worldwide.

  • December 1, 2016

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    RIT to hold first-ever winter glass sale Sunday

    The School for American Crafts’ glass program will sell unique, hand-blown glass ornaments along with paperweights, vases and more during the school’s first-ever winter glass sale on Sunday.

  • December 1, 2016

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    Top stories and videos for November

    News and a video about the launch of RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios were among the most popular last month. Check out all of November’s top stories and videos.

  • November 30, 2016

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    RIT hosts Silicon Europe Alliance

    Members of the Silicon Europe Alliance, Europe’s leading micro- and nano-electronic business clusters, traveled to New York to meet with economic development organizations, high tech companies and universities to discuss advanced nanoelectronic technologies. Their final stop was at RIT.

  • November 30, 2016

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    RIT awarded grant to develop curriculum modules

    RIT was awarded nearly $75,000 from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop standards educational modules for the university’s College of Applied Science and Technology.

  • November 29, 2016

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    RIT Theme Park Enthusiasts sweep competition

    Six members of RIT’s Theme Park Enthusiasts club won four awards during the Ryerson Invitational Thrill Design Competition, hosted by Universal Creative. The competition invited teams from four colleges to create theme park rides or make modifications to existing rides.

  • November 28, 2016

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    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

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    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.