Editor’s Note: News & Events Daily is on a twice-weekly summer schedule with issues every Tuesday and Thursday.

Today’s Top Stories

Alumni company makes Top 100 startups list
UNA Smart, touted by developers as an innovative way to brew coffee and tea anywhere and anytime and created by five RIT alumni, was recently named to Brazil’s Top 100 startups list. read more »

RIT appoints new member to Board of Trustees
Hyacinth “Hope” V. Drummond, an RIT alumna, has been appointed to RIT’s Board of Trustees. Drummond also sits on the boards of directors for Sojourner House at Pathstone in Rochester and the Morrison YMCA in Charlotte, N.C. read more »

Sports News

Men's lacrosse has incredible 2017 season end in NCAA Championship loss
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No. 8 women’s crew places fifth overall at 2017 NCAA Rowing Championships
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RIT in the News

WXXI.org
RIT on TV: Deaf culture through art
Laural Hartman, lecturer in NTID's Visual Communications Studies Department, and Tabitha Jacques, director, Dyer Arts Center, featured more »

FoxNews.com
Researchers create high-speed internet lane for when disaster strikes
Jennifer Schneider, the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking, quoted more »

Chesapeake Quarterly
The Rise and Fall of the Matapeake Monster
Christine Keiner, associate professor, departments of history and science, technology and society, quoted more »