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RIT is offering a graduate tuition scholarship to recent alumni seeking to expand their career potential through the university’s graduate programs. Alumni can enhance their skill set for the new economy through master’s degrees that build upon collaboration, analytical thinking, complex problem solving, and flexibility.

Hospitality and tourism management students at RIT were given an assignment in their restaurant and event management class: create a pop-up lunch for 200, and come up with the theme, menu, pricing, even marketing. Nika Pikulik decided to honor her homeland with a Ukraine-themed meal.

Students from engineering, game design, and 3D design will travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston April 3-5 to demonstrate PLANETS, a portable sensory device to help astronauts recover normal balance and movement on earth after an extended stay in space.

The Rochester Red Wings team starts its season today at Innovative Field, and RIT alumnus Justin Copie ’05 (information technology) is the person behind the ingenious new name for downtown Rochester’s baseball stadium.

The Guardian features a photo by Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.

WXXI Connections talks to Michael Ruhling, professor of performing arts, about Beethoven.

Rochester Beacon features Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness surpassing its $1 billion goal.

New York Magazine features photography by Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Science.

City News features Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, and the Visual Studies Workshop.

RIT has surpassed the $1 billion goal for Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness, the university’s blended campaign. A recent $1 million gift from John Traver ’10 (motion picture science) for an endowed professorship in the College of Art and Design “put us over the top,” according to RIT President David Munson.

Essay by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by Slate.

In Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, villagers’ deafness becomes an act of revolt against a totalitarian government, and their use of sign language unites them as a community. These themes, along with others throughout the book, resonate with the contemporary experience of deafness in the United States.