May 4, 2017
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Today’s Top Stories
RIT featured among ‘Colleges that Create Futures’
RIT is featured in the 2017 edition of The Princeton Review’s Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers by Going Beyond the Classroom. read more »
Two to receive public service awards
James Watters, RIT’s senior vice president of Finance and Administration and treasurer, will receive the 2017 Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award, and Wilson Darko, a fifth-year electrical engineering technology student, will receive the 2017 Bruce R. James Award at a ceremony May 10. read more »
Saunders College hosts youth business competition
Saunders College of Business at RIT is hosting the ninth annual Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) Saunders College Competition on Friday. Ninety-two semifinalists representing 35 states will be at RIT to present their business plans to a panel of judges. read more »
RIT is featured in the 2017 edition of The Princeton Review’s Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers by Going Beyond the Classroom. read more »
Two to receive public service awards
James Watters, RIT’s senior vice president of Finance and Administration and treasurer, will receive the 2017 Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award, and Wilson Darko, a fifth-year electrical engineering technology student, will receive the 2017 Bruce R. James Award at a ceremony May 10. read more »
Saunders College hosts youth business competition
Saunders College of Business at RIT is hosting the ninth annual Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) Saunders College Competition on Friday. Ninety-two semifinalists representing 35 states will be at RIT to present their business plans to a panel of judges. read more »
Imagine RIT
Technology turns sandbox into topographic map
Students from RIT’s Society of Software Engineers will showcase projects they’ve been building throughout the school year, including an augmented reality display that turns a sandbox into an interactive topographical map, during Imagine RIT. read more »
Students from RIT’s Society of Software Engineers will showcase projects they’ve been building throughout the school year, including an augmented reality display that turns a sandbox into an interactive topographical map, during Imagine RIT. read more »
For and About Alumni
Robot pastime helped alumnus build career
Mike Jeffries is proud when Bombshell is on the attack, knowing there’s no “tapping out” or yielding in competitions. During this past season of ABC’s BattleBots show, taped over the summer, Bombshell and Jeffries’ Chaos Corps team battled to an impressive second place finish. read more »
Mike Jeffries is proud when Bombshell is on the attack, knowing there’s no “tapping out” or yielding in competitions. During this past season of ABC’s BattleBots show, taped over the summer, Bombshell and Jeffries’ Chaos Corps team battled to an impressive second place finish. read more »
Sports News
RIT in the News
WHEC-TV
RIT on TV: Imagine RIT Preview - Women of Rochester Dress
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WROC-TV
RIT on TV: Imagine RIT Preview - Puppy Prosthetic
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Spectrum News
RIT on TV: Imagine RIT Preview - Tremor Mitigation Wearable Device
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WHAM-TV
RIT on TV: Imagine RIT Preview - Multispectral Imaging Drone
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Progressive Railroading
Talking rail cybersecurity with G&W's Jacob Stocker
Jacob Stoker '16 (information security and forensics) featured more »
WXXI.org
Promoting tobacco-free colleges and universities
Bill Destler, president, quoted more »
RIT on TV: Imagine RIT Preview - Women of Rochester Dress
more »
WROC-TV
RIT on TV: Imagine RIT Preview - Puppy Prosthetic
more »
Spectrum News
RIT on TV: Imagine RIT Preview - Tremor Mitigation Wearable Device
more »
WHAM-TV
RIT on TV: Imagine RIT Preview - Multispectral Imaging Drone
more »
Progressive Railroading
Talking rail cybersecurity with G&W's Jacob Stocker
Jacob Stoker '16 (information security and forensics) featured more »
WXXI.org
Promoting tobacco-free colleges and universities
Bill Destler, president, quoted more »
Today’s Weather
Upcoming Events
Performance: Step Afrika!, 6:30 p.m. today, Ingle Auditorium
Gray Matter Discussion Series: “Mental Health in the New Millennium. Does Everyone Just Need to Toughen Up?,” noon tomorrow, SAU Mosaic Center
Poster session: Software engineering senior projects, noon–1:45 p.m. tomorrow, first floor east corridor of Golisano Hall (details)
Opening reception: “Draft 14,” featuring contemporary photography from RIT students and other universities, 6–9 p.m. tomorrow, Gallery r, 100 College Ave., Rochester (exhibition runs May 5–14)
Imagine RIT: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, throughout campus
Concert: RIT Concert Band, 3 p.m. Sunday, Ingle Auditorium
Reception: “Photography in Ireland,” 5–8 p.m. Tuesday, University Gallery
Global Campus Virtual Reality Experience: Experience sights, sounds and flavors of China, Croatia, Dubai, Kosovo and Rochester, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Global Village plaza
Award ceremony: Honoring the 2017 recipients of the Alfred Davis Public Service Awards, 4 p.m. Wednesday, University Gallery
Gray Matter Discussion Series: “Mental Health in the New Millennium. Does Everyone Just Need to Toughen Up?,” noon tomorrow, SAU Mosaic Center
Poster session: Software engineering senior projects, noon–1:45 p.m. tomorrow, first floor east corridor of Golisano Hall (details)
Opening reception: “Draft 14,” featuring contemporary photography from RIT students and other universities, 6–9 p.m. tomorrow, Gallery r, 100 College Ave., Rochester (exhibition runs May 5–14)
Imagine RIT: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, throughout campus
Concert: RIT Concert Band, 3 p.m. Sunday, Ingle Auditorium
Reception: “Photography in Ireland,” 5–8 p.m. Tuesday, University Gallery
Global Campus Virtual Reality Experience: Experience sights, sounds and flavors of China, Croatia, Dubai, Kosovo and Rochester, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Global Village plaza
Award ceremony: Honoring the 2017 recipients of the Alfred Davis Public Service Awards, 4 p.m. Wednesday, University Gallery
Scoreboard
Baseball: RIT 9, St. John Fisher 5
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