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April 10, 2023
Students from RIT Croatia, RIT Dubai, and RIT Kosovo to showcase exhibits at this year’s Imagine RIT
This year’s Imagine RIT festival will have a strong international presence thanks in part to three teams from RIT’s global campuses who will fly to the U.S. to present exhibits. Teams from RIT Croatia, RIT Dubai, and RIT Kosovo won a competition to present their exhibits in the Gordon Field House.
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April 10, 2023
Internationally known Indian tabla musician to perform at RIT
Sandeep Das, a Grammy-winning musician and internationally known master of the Indian tabla, will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at RIT. Das is the founder of Harmony and Universality through Music (HUM), a nonprofit organization in India that promotes global understanding through music performance and provides learning opportunities and scholarships for visually impaired children with artistic potential.
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April 10, 2023
How does history shape our understanding of a mid-sized city like Rochester?
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Michael Brown, associate professor in the Department of History.
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April 10, 2023
RIT students work with NASA to help astronauts transition back to Earth
WROC-TV talks to engineering student Jordan Cincotti about a video game project to help astronauts readjust to gravity on Earth after being in space.
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April 7, 2023
Eight Beat Measure celebrates 35 years with alumni
Eight Beat Measure, RIT’s oldest a cappella group, is celebrating 35 years since being formed and is seeking former group members to join them for an anniversary celebratory concert, “Chill Beats,” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 14, at the Theatre at Innovation Square.
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April 7, 2023
RIT and Seneca Park Zoo Society to host Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup event at the Port of Rochester
RIT and the Seneca Park Zoo Society will hold a special event at the Port of Rochester from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 15, to educate members of the public on how they can address plastic pollution and showcase some of the latest technology in the field.
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April 7, 2023
RIT a cappella group "Eight Beat Measure" performs on Good Day Rochester
Fox Rochester features a cappella group Eight Beat Measure ahead of its performance on April 14.
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April 7, 2023
Engineering technology student upgrades industrial robot to be used for future classes
Pete Van Camp played detective before he acted as a manufacturing engineer for his graduate capstone project. His project involved upgrading a Fanuc industrial robot, which had been sitting idle for a short time in the Fabrication and Robotics Lab located in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology. Limited documentation about functions, missing cables and components, and fewer technical people from the company to provide service support were just a few of the barriers Van Camp encountered as he began.
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April 7, 2023
Jade Myers recognized as recipient of 2023 Bruce R. James ’64 Distinguished Public Service Award
Prosthetic devices can be symbolic of loss or they can represent challenges being overcome. Jade Myers’ focus on designing prosthetics for individuals who have lost limbs is a way to give them the second chance that can make all the difference in the world.
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April 7, 2023
Susan Fox earns 2023 Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award
With her multiple decades of service toward local causes including hunger prevention, education, refugee resettlement, and church community development, Susan Fox has earned RIT’s annual award for a faculty or staff member who has shown outstanding commitment to community service. Fox will receive the 2023 Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award at a ceremony on April 11.
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April 6, 2023
Gift from alumnus Steve Wear will support RIT’s imaging science students and drone lab
A gift from an RIT distinguished alumnus, Steve Wear '91 (imaging science), will help RIT students and researchers reach new heights on the frontier of imaging science.
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April 5, 2023
RIT students devise a way to help NASA astronauts return to Earth’s gravity
WXXI talks to Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, about a video game project to help astronauts readjust to gravity on Earth after being in space.