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Nabil Nasr, RIT’s associate provost and founding director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has been appointed a Trustee by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, formed in 2010 to inspire a generation to rethink, redesign and build a positive future through the vision of a circular economy. 

Rochester Business Journal talks to Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about a prototype for an emergency portable ventilator.

RIT is leading an effort involving local companies and healthcare experts to produce a prototype ventilator designed to help meet the continuing surge of respiratory cases as a result of the coronavirus.

Forbes talks to Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about manufacturers shifting production to medical supplies.

The New York Times talks to Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, and Michael Thurston, research faculty in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about remanufacturing and privacy concerns.

Dr. Nabil Nasr, associate provost at the Rochester Institute of Technology and director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, shares what he knows about remanufacturing.

In a recent column for the Rochester Business Journal, Dr. Nabil Nasr, associate provost and director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, reminds us that sustainability is about more than switching to clean energy—it means addressing our planet's limited store of resources by rethinking manufacturing from the ground up.

Waste Dive talks to Nabil Nasr, associate provost, founding director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability and CEO of the Reducing EMbodied-Energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute, about REMADE's efforts to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions in manufacturing.

A new book by Nabil Nasr, associate provost and director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS), brings together many of the world’s thought leaders on the fundamentals of remanufacturing and its vital link to resource efficiency and the circular economy—including two additional authors from RIT.

More than 140 thought leaders and executives from around the world gathered in Rochester for the third-annual RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference, which featured the latest information on emerging trends and issues of critical importance to the remanufacturing industry.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 16: While the term sustainability has many definitions, its goal is singularly critical – the world needs to achieve ecological balance. In this episode of Intersections, Nabil Nasr, associate provost, and Enid Cardinal, senior sustainability adviser, discuss what’s happening on campus, across the nation and around the world to safeguard our environment.

Rethinking how industrial products are manufactured and dealing with them at the end of their useful life could provide breakthrough environmental, social and economic benefits, according to new research from the International Resource Panel.