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December 8, 2008
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Rachel DiNunzio, a second-year illustration major and Buffalo Bills fan, designed a logo for a grassroots marketing campaign to keep the NFL team in Buffalo long-term. DiNunzioâs brother and uncle are the marketing masterminds behind the initiative and recruited the Williamsville native to come up with a logo. Their goal is to raise awareness about the teamâs future through the creation of a Web site, billsinbuffalo4ever.com, an online petition and selling T-shirts and bumper stickers. -
December 5, 2008
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RITâs Gallery r participated in the annual Park Avenue Winter Festival on Dec. 4. Several RIT students from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences put on a display of their ice sculpting skills in front of the Park Avenue gallery. Here, ice chips fly as Erin Zellefrow, a second-year MFA student, attacks a block of ice. -
December 4, 2008
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Fred Smith, RITâs institute secretary, will retire Dec. 31 after 37 years of service. Here, Smith shares memories with guests during his official send-off in the Student Alumni Union Davis Room, Dec. 2. Note an earlier photo, in the background, of Smith in one of his previous offices. -
December 1, 2008
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Joseph Fornieri, RIT associate professor of political science, has received a 2009 Teaching Fulbright Award from the William J. Fulbright Program. Fornieri will spend this winter at Charles University in Prague teaching courses in constitutional rights and liberties and American political thought. He will also serve as a Fulbright cultural ambassador, conducting research that compares Czech democratic ideas and institutions with those of the United States. Fornieri is a noted scholar on the political philosophy of Abraham Lincoln. He is a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and his fifth book, Lincolnâs America: 1809-1865, has just been published by Southern Illinois University Press. -
November 26, 2008
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Alan Singer, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, has a new exhibit of prints and paintings in the Arts & Cultural Council Gallery, 277 N. Goodman St., through Dec. 24. Wheel on Fire is one example of his mix media prints. -
November 24, 2008
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Through the assistance of U.S. Congressman Randy Kuhl, RITâs Golisano Institute for Sustainability was awarded $5 million from the Office of Naval Research to develop new transportation technologies that will increase energy efficiency and reduce the costs of military vehicles. -
November 21, 2008
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Bill Hampel, chief economist at Credit Union National Association in Washington, D.C., was one of several guest speakers at Filene Research Instituteâs Consumer Financial Services Colloquium, sponsored by RITâs E. Philip Saunders College of Business, Nov. 21. The daylong event was hosted by Credit Card Nation author Robert Manning, Saundersâ research professor and director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services. -
November 20, 2008
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Kevin Kemp, director of external research programs for Freescale Semiconductor, opened the third annual Freescale Symposium Nov. 19. The event, hosted by RITâs Department of Computer Engineering, was attended by participants from across the United States and Canada for workshops on micro-controller architecture, wireless sensor development and embedded systems design. -
November 19, 2008
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Javier Rodriguez-Borlado, a graduate student in RITâs School of Print Media, presented âAn Examination of Newspaper Business and Workflow Models for U.S. Newspapersâ on Nov. 18. This was part of the seventh annual Printing Industry Center Symposium and Planning Meeting. Industry partners, RIT faculty and staff and other participants discussed the research conducted at the center over the past year to plan for the coming year. -
November 18, 2008
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RIT administrators offered some âbasic trainingâ for nearly 40 of the universityâs newer principal investigators at the annual Grant Writersâ Boot Camp on Nov. 17-18. The event provided insights on the fundamentals of securing research funding. Jeremy Haefner, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs (shown here); Lynn Wild, assistant provost for faculty success; and Donald Boyd, vice president for research, led off the event by discussing the vision and direction of RITâs research initiatives. -
November 17, 2008
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Researchers from RITâs Golisano Institute for Sustainability test equipment they have developed as part of a partnership with the U.S. military and Lockheed Martin Corp. The project has already transfered vehicle health monitoring technology developed at the institute for use in more than 12,000 military vehicles. -
November 14, 2008
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Alan Singer, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, has a new exhibit of prints and paintings in the Arts & Cultural Council Gallery, 277 N. Goodman St. The opening reception is 5-8 p.m. Nov. 14.