Institute News

RIT's Dr. Nabil Nasr says the Rochester region has a number of companies in various sectors that are making a commitment to sustainable manufacturing.

WXXI talks to Charles Ruffing, director, New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, about a new program to help municipalities throughout the state reduce food waste.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I)—led by RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability—has developed a free, interactive toolkit that municipalities can use to design, implement, and manage food waste programs at the local level.

Now in its fourth year, Reman Day is designed to bring attention to the remanufacturing industry, shining a light on what remanufacturing is, how it works, and why it matters as a sustainable, resource-efficient approach to manufacturing.

The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers has named Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, and Iris Rivero, head of RIT’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, as Fellows, an honor that recognizes outstanding leaders of the profession who have made significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial and systems engineering.

WHAM-TV interviews Thomas Trabold, department head of sustainability in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about the new HYZON Motors facility in Honeoye Falls and how the Rochester region can become a hub for fuel cell technology.

Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, is part of an advisory board, The CLEEN Project, which recently launched the nation’s first co-operative idea database designed specifically for federal leaders in the new administration and focused on providing actionable ideas to combat climate change and advance climate justice.

Essay co-written by Callie Babbitt, associate professor in Golisano Institute for Sustainability, published by The Hill.

Research activities for the three-year, field-based research project will be organized and led by Kelly McCauley Krish, IPI preventive conservation specialist. The study will apply data from temperature, relative humidity, and pollutant monitoring to comprehensively balance these known risks to collections when implementing energy-saving mechanical system operations.

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to move our alert level on campus from Orange to Yellow, meaning that the prevalence of the virus on campus remains a moderate risk. While this changes our alert level closer to where we all would like to be, we must continue to be extremely vigilant. We must not let our guard down.

RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability has been selected to help New York cleantech startups learn about and apply sustainable manufacturing concepts in their businesses.

The Economic Times talks to Nabil Nasr, associate provost for Academic Affairs and director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about the difference between remanufacturing and refurbishing.