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July 23, 2019
Anderson Cooper headlines RIT’s Brick City Weekend
Journalist Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° and a correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes, will be the Student Government Distinguished Speaker at Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend, Oct. 18-20. The weekend typically draws 17,000 participants to RIT’s campus and the Rochester area and features more than 100 events during three days.
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July 9, 2019
Gender diversity guide aimed at helping faculty learn more about gender
Assistant Professor Alan Smerbeck is working with Q Center director Chris Hinesley on an updated edition of Gender Diversity: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty, which is set to come out in spring 2020. Originally published in 2016, the guide is meant to serve as a base-level reference book for learning about gender diversity, labels and pronouns, and the do’s and don’ts of talking about gender identities.
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June 18, 2019
RIT offers film and photography, music, belly dancing and ukuleles at this year’s Fringe
RIT students, faculty, staff and Osher members are part of a 12-day lineup of more than 500 eclectic performances in this year’s KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, Sept. 10-21 in Rochester. RIT also is a major educational sponsor of the community collaborative event, now in its eighth year.
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June 11, 2019
Success for Students With Autism
Inside Higher Ed features RIT's Spectrum Support Program.
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May 30, 2019
What's the big deal with pronouns?
Guest essay by Christopher Hinesley, assistant director, Center for Campus Life, and Taj Smith, director of Diversity Education, Office for Diversity and Inclusion, published on page 11 of Insight Into Diversity.
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May 10, 2019
RIT’s record 4,200 graduates challenged to ‘enrich the world’
Keynote speaker John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), told graduates during this morning's convocation ceremony that they are entering “the Imagination Age, an age that calls for new ways to see, to imagine, to think, to act, to learn and one that also calls for us to re-examine the foundations of our way of being human, and what it means to be human.”
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May 9, 2019
RIT ‘Hearthstone’ team to compete at ESPN Collegiate Esports Championship in Houston
A team of RIT students has become one of the best collegiate Hearthstone teams in the nation, making it to the ESPN Collegiate Esports Championship May 10-12 in Houston. RIT beat out nearly 500 other collegiate Hearthstone teams to get to the first-ever ESPN esports event.
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May 3, 2019
Leaders announced for RIT governance groups
Recent elections were held for the governance bodies at RIT: Academic Senate, Staff Council and Student Government.
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May 3, 2019
Dollars, food, clothes and awareness raised for RIT’s 50 Acts of Kindness
More than 2,400 Rochester Institute of Technology students, faculty, staff and alumni helped RIT commemorate 50 years on the Henrietta campus this academic year by giving back to the community with “50 Acts of Kindness,” which featured blood drives, fund-raising, food donations and more.
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May 3, 2019
RIT Dota 2 team wins Grand Championship for second year in a row
RIT is silencing the doubters, winning its second Collegiate Starleague Dota 2 Grand Finals Championship April 28. The student team bested a bracket of North America’s 32 top universities to take home the $10,000 grand prize.
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April 27, 2019
Surprise spring snow doesn’t deter crowds at Imagine RIT
There’s always something new to experience at the Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival, which this year featured more than 400 exhibits, including a human hamster wheel, performances by student ensembles, cutting-edge video games and demonstrations to determine how color can affect your mood.
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April 27, 2019
RIT students let their talent roar at second-annual Dr. Munson’s Performing Arts Challenge
This year’s Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation began Friday evening, with scores of university students letting their talent shine in front of an appreciative crowd during Dr. Munson’s Performing Arts Challenge. First place went to The Roar’s for a rousing rendition of “Feeling Good,” which the band patterned after a Michael Bublé performance of the song.