News Stories
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March 31, 2023
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Multidisciplinary student team demonstrates astronaut training device at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
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.
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March 31, 2023
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RIT alumnus Justin Copie behind newly named Innovative Field in downtown Rochester
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.
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March 30, 2023
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How the Guardian US saw 2022 – in pictures
The Guardian features a photo by Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.
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March 29, 2023
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How new research is unlocking secrets about Beethoven's life
WXXI Connections talks to Michael Ruhling, professor of performing arts, about Beethoven.
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March 29, 2023
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RIT campaign tops $1 billion
Rochester Beacon features Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness surpassing its $1 billion goal.
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March 29, 2023
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Kettled, Then Vindicated: The city is making a historic payout to George Floyd protesters
New York Magazine features photography by Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Science.
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March 29, 2023
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VSW spotlights Joshua Rashaad McFadden
City News features Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, and the Visual Studies Workshop.
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March 29, 2023
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RIT surpasses $1 billion campaign goal funding scholarships, research, and facilities
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.
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March 29, 2023
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The Delusion at the Center of the A.I. Boom
Essay by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by Slate.
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March 29, 2023
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RIT/NTID kicks off NEA Big Read project April 1
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.
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March 29, 2023
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‘Ordinary Days’ is extraordinary musical theater
RIT’s University Gallery is the perfect venue for an upcoming play where much of the plot takes place in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ordinary Days runs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30, through Sunday, April 2, in the gallery, in Booth Hall.
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March 28, 2023
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ASL group creates unique show designed to inspire, transpire change
WVLT-TV features an event with Sunshine 2.0.
