Today’s Top Stories

RIT recognized for supporting employee wellness
For the second straight year, RIT was named a recipient of this year’s Wealth of Health awards for having a wellness program to help employees stay healthy, lose weight, quit smoking and reduce stress.
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Professor elected president of Association of Computing Machinery
Human-computer interaction expert Vicki Hanson was elected president of the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. She will help represent more than 100,000 members worldwide when she begins her two-year term July 1.
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Cybersecurity event will help businesses
Business leaders and cybersecurity experts will gather at RIT on June 14 to discuss ways to increase cybersecurity awareness and change behavior in order to keep data secure.
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Beekeepers Club protects honey bees
The club installed three hives on campus in May and students care for thousands of honey bees that help pollinate plants at RIT and in the surrounding areas.  watch video »

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For and About Alumni

CAST grad drives Baja collegiate competition
It’s been almost 15 years since Jason Rounds ’00 (mechanical engineering technology) hurtled over hills and rocks in an RIT Baja car. Today he remains involved, but as the technical lead for the Society of Automotive Engineers Baja off-road collegiate racing competitions, including the one at RIT this weekend.
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Tiger Hockey

Seven will join men’s hockey team in 2016-17
Head Coach Wayne Wilson announced Wednesday that seven first-year students will join the men’s hockey Class of 2020. This includes four defensemen and three forwards.
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Sports News

Spots still available for annual Tiger Open on Monday
The 34th Annual Tiger Open Golf Tournament, presented by Rochester Regional Health System Sports Medicine, will take place on Monday at Ravenwood Golf Club in Victor, N.Y.
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RIT in the News

Rochester Business Journal
Awards tout wellness in the workplace
RIT's wellness program mentioned more »

Henrietta Post
RIT industrial design students win Editors' Award
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The Atlantic
The New Economics of Cybercrime
Guest column by Josephine Wolff, assistant professor of public policy and computing security more »

Associations Now
Computing Association Elects First All-Women Slate of Officers
Vicki Hanson, Distinguished Professor of Information Sciences and Technologies, featured more »

WXXI.org
Connections: Monthly Science Roundtable - The Science Of Drought
Josh Goldowitz, professor of environmental sustainability, health and safety, and Matthew Hoffman, assistant professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, featured more »