Environmental Studies and Sustainability News
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November 21, 2017
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Graduate programs offer cutting-edge education
Today, RIT offers 73 master's programs, with 14 new programs added in just the past 10 years. And the number of master's programs is likely to grow even more in the near future. -
October 10, 2017
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2017 Distinguished Alumni: Meet Thomas Trytek
Meet Thomas Trytek ’91 (civil engineering technology), the College of Applied Science and Technology 2017 Distinguished Alumnus. -
September 28, 2017
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Student teams win national packaging design challenge
Four of eight student design teams from RIT that were entered in the national Paperboard Packaging Alliance competition were awarded top placements for excellence in design. -
March 28, 2017
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Graduates construct Rochester Top 100 company
Justin Hamilton and Christopher Stern were standing on the basketball court sidelines in 1998 when they started talking about majors. That was the beginning of Hamilton Stern Construction, a company that was No. 1 on the Rochester Chamber Top 100 list of fastest growing private companies in 2016. -
November 16, 2016
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Students recognized at packaging design competition
Three multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate students from RIT were recognized for their unique designs in the 2016 Paperboard Packaging Alliance Student Design Challenge. -
October 5, 2016
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RIT gets $1M grant to develop food waste solutions
Callie Babbitt, an associate professor in RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has received a nearly $1 million award from the National Science Foundation to research sustainable solutions for minimizing and managing food waste generated across the food supply chain. -
April 25, 2016
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Packaging students highlight how the brain ‘shops’
Students in the packaging science program will track where an individual’s eyes go when looking at an array of well-packaged goods as part of their Imagine RIT exhibit May 7. -
March 14, 2016
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December 22, 2015
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Students create product packaging in competition
RIT students create new and sustainable product packaging as part of the 2015 Wegmans Design Challenge.
