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Nicholas Higgins has enjoyed five different co-op experiences with Fisher-Price. The fifth-year mechanical engineering student hopes his time with the company will lead to a job when he graduates in May 2013. To read more, go to target=new>www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=49351.

RIT alumnus Tristan O’Tierney ’08 went from being an RIT computer science student to a co-founder of Square, an electronic payment service that allows users to accept credit cards through their mobile phones, either by swiping the card on the Square device or by manually entering the details on the phone. O’Tierney shared his story and lessons with RIT students Oct. 1.

Shop One² is a fine art and craft gallery representing RIT affiliated artists including students, faculty, staff and alumni. Today, sculptor Susan Ferrari-Rowley ’81 launches her Angular Extremes bracelet collection from 4–7 p.m.

Amanda Bao, an assistant professor in the College of Applied Science and Technology’s civil engineering technology/environmental management and safety program, was one of several faculty who presented work-in-progress at the Research Seed Funding in Action event hosted by Sponsored Research Services on Sept. 27. She discussed her research about dynamic soil-structure interaction on bridges to facilitate sustainable design. Her studies will help determine bridge structural capabilities subject to seismic loads, blasts and strong winds.

RIT’s Office of Cooperative Education and Career Services hosted the Fall 2012 Career Fair on Sept. 26 in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. The fair, which had a record number of 250 employers in attendance, also attracted a groundbreaking 3,235 students and alumni, which exceeded initial estimates.

Dangerous Signs, a performance poetry group from the NTID Masquers Drama Club, has a unique blend of African-American, deaf and original poetry mixed with dance, music, mime and the spoken word.

Al Biles, professor of interactive games and media, played his unique brand of technology-inspired music at the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival on Sept. 22.

RIT students participated in Mud Tug 2012, the annual all out tug-of-war tournament held behind Grace Watson Hall on Sept. 22. RIT unofficially broke the world record with 1,647 tuggers.

Barnes & Noble @ RIT hosted a meet-and-greet with the RIT women’s hockey team on Sept. 22 to benefit RIT’s chapter of the Fight to Be Healed Foundation. The foundation offers support to pediatric cancer patients at Golisano Children’s Hospital.

RIT/NTID Dance Company performed AstroDance at the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival on Sept. 22. The dance was conceived and choreographed by Thomas Warfield, director of the RIT/NTID dance program.

“Spirits Within,” a collaboration among Eastman School of Music professor Stephen Kennedy, dancers from FuturPointe Dance Company and RIT professor Marla Schweppe’s 3-D Digital Design students, was performed during the Rochester Fringe Festival on Sept. 21.

RIT’s state-of-the-art “green” facility, Golisano Institute for Sustainability, will serve as a center for sustainability research, technology transfer, education and outreach and will provide a showcase for green construction and design.