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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

L.A. Style magazine features Ushi Patel ’00 (graphic communications), ’01 (MBA).

The Conversation highlights an essay by Robert Ulin, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, about exploitative labor practices in the chocolate industry.

WROC-TV features a visit by U.S. Representative Joe Morelle to RIT to announce funding for the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Fabrication Lab.

RIT’s concrete canoe and steel bridge teams are presenting their products in person at the regional Upstate New York-Canada ASCE Student Symposium on April 20-22 for the first time as a pair since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

WROC-TV talks to Jill Bradbury, department chair of NTID's Department for Performing Arts, about the Big Read community project.

Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe. (This content requires a subscription to view.)

Medium features an interview with Gabriel Isserlis ’16 (film and animation), founder and CEO of Tutti.