Institute News

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute has announced selections for its 2021-2022 Community Grants Program as part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to continue improving the health and environmental quality of New York state.

Doug Templeton ’19 (M.Arch.), a licensed architect in New York State, joined Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)’s department of architecture as an adjunct faculty member in fall of 2020.

The REMADE Institute (REMADE) selected four projects for award that were proposed by GIS researchers, a funding award totaling $3.5 million. Research will see GIS developing circular economy solutions in partnership with the companies Autodesk, BigBattery, BorgWarner, Caterpillar, and Nike, among others.

WROC-TV features a project partnering Cobblestone Arts Center with graduate students from the Golisano Institute for Sustainability.

The Baileys, an RIT legacy family, have dreamed of opening a restaurant in the Rochester area for more than 11 years. In 2020, when their youngest child graduated from high school, they decided it was finally time.

The Economist talks to Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about regulations on e-waste.

The B. Thomas Golisano collection at RIT Archives is going digital, with a new interactive online exhibit that celebrates the leader’s personal and professional legacy.

Seth Holmes is the newest faculty member of RIT's department of architecture. As both a scholar and a practitioner of architecture, Holmes brings expertise in climate change adaptation and resilient design to RIT’s master of architecture (M.Arch.) program.

Spectrum News talks to Callie Babbitt, professor of sustainability, and Diana Rodriguez Alberto, a sustainability Ph.D. student, about their research on reducing food waste.

A $250,000 grant from the U.S. State Department will fund a program led by RIT professors Clyde Hull and Eric Williams to help entrepreneurs in Jordan form circular economy businesses.

Abu Islam recently joined GIS’s research staff. He was previously the director of the advanced technology group at Xerox where he led development of next-generation printing technologies.

For the 11th consecutive year, RIT has been named one of the greenest universities by The Princeton Review.