Top stories and videos for October
Stories about Hurricane Sandy and student-team’s real-time website tracking tweets related to the storm were among the most read in October.
Top News Stories
2. Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend Features Power Players
3. RIT Opening a Center for Urban Entrepreneurship in Downtown Rochester
4. Zombie Expert, Author Max Brooks Awakens the Dead at RIT Oct. 5
5. New chapter for Tiger hockey begins with construction of Gene Polisseni Center
6. RIT Leader Removed as Libyan Prime Minister
7. Real-time Website Tracks and Maps Tweets Related to Hurricane Sandy
8. Annual Crop of Glass Pumpkins at RIT Ready for the Picking
9. Sweeping X-ray Imaging Survey of Dying Stars is ‘Uncharted Territory'
10. Student Entrepreneurs Win Grand Prize at MassChallenge Business Competition
Top Videos
1. RIT Brick City Homecoming 2012
2. RIT on TV: Serving the Deaf Community in Rochester
3. RIT on TV: Madolora at Amerks Hockey Camp
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RIT professor helps to tackle energy access in rural Africa
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