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September 16, 2021
RIT names new director of Venture Creations technology business incubator
Entrepreneurship expert Johan Klarin comes to Venture Creations from Columbia University, where he served as manager of the NYSERDA-funded Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, assisting clean-tech startups in New York state. Prior to that, he was managing director of Viaduct Inc., a consulting company focused on Western New York startups.
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September 16, 2021
Saunders College of Business jumps 16 spots in ‘Bloomberg Businessweek’ rankings
Saunders College ranked No. 77 overall, with a diversity rating of No. 36, in the annual MBA rankings of graduate business schools. The college also ranked No. 73 in entrepreneurship and No. 76 in compensation.
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September 16, 2021
'FEELS' on display for KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
WHAM-TV features an art exhibit by Jake Adams, visiting lecturer in the School of Interactive Games and Media.
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September 16, 2021
Christopher Kanan earns NSF CAREER Award to develop brain-inspired AI systems
Christopher Kanan, an associate professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and grant for his five-year project to expand the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems using new brain-inspired methods.
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September 16, 2021
New class of Destler/Johnson Rochester City Scholars includes a record 11 students from partner charter school
RIT welcomed 26 new students this fall through a program that provides tuition waivers as well as academic and social support to City of Rochester residents. The 12th cohort of the Destler/Johnson Rochester City Scholars program includes graduates from eight schools in the Rochester City School District and Rochester charter schools.
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September 15, 2021
NY-Based Game Developers ‘Level Up’ through NYSTAR Hubs
FuzeHub features RIT's MAGIC Center and talks to Jenn Hinton, associate director of the MAGIC Center.
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September 15, 2021
How We Chose the 2021 TIME100
Time mentions Pari Dukovic '06 (professional photographic illustration), who took two of the 2021 Time 100 covers (Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, and Billie Eilish).
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September 14, 2021
RIT wins $1.5 million to increase behavioral health workforce in Monroe County
The $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has expanded RIT’s accredited Priority Behavioral Health and Clinical Psychology Internship program to focus on delivering integrated care for young clients who struggle with substance use, mental health issues, and trauma from exposure to high rates of violence within the community.
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September 14, 2021
Diverse prospective faculty kick-start career searches through long-running RIT program
RIT is hosting African American, Latino/a American, and Native American scholars and artists from across the U.S. for a three-day virtual program to help them successfully navigate their career search process while getting a “behind-the-scenes” glimpse into life as an RIT faculty member.
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September 14, 2021
RIT announces patents donation, creation of Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence
Dr. Russell W. Bessette and his wife, Melissa, joined RIT officials and other dignitaries to announce a donation of two patents and the creation of the Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence, a $3.05 million bequest from which funding will be awarded annually as part of recruitment or at any point during a doctoral student’s enrollment at RIT.
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September 14, 2021
Connections: Why has the Libertarian party had trouble attracting more people?
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Lauren Hall, chair, Department of Political Science.
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September 14, 2021
New RIT visual modeling of coronavirus leads to discovery of behavior of second cellular ‘touchpoint’
WROC-TV features research by Gregory Babbitt, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences; Patrick Rynkiewicz ’20 (bioinformatics and computational biology), ’21 MS (bioinformatics); Professor André Hudson, and Associate Professor Feng Cui.