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RIT will host New York State’s new Pollution Prevention Institute. The institute will help decrease the use of toxic chemicals, cut waste generation, decrease exposure risks to workers, and promote efficient uses of raw materials and energy. read more »

Mark Fairchild’s image of the Golden Gate Bridge was captured with a series of nine bracketed exposures. Fairchild, director of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at RIT, was awarded the prestigious Davies Medal. read more »

Zack Butler, assistant professor of computer science, is a member of the U.S. Puzzle Team, which earned its tenth team world title championship in 2007. Butler is a practicing cruciverbalist (one who writes crossword puzzles). Many of his puzzles are published in The New York Times. read more »

Create your own robot by picking up a copy of “Practical and Experimental Robotics,” co-written by Ferat Sahin, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. The book offers readers instructions to assist students, teachers, and researchers in creating and using their own robots. read more »

Though it may not look it, the annual Mud Tug is good, clean fun for the entire RIT community. Teams of 10 battle for bragging rights, but the real winner is the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, recipient of the event's proceeds. read more »

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RIT students create a ‘missing link’ for the world’s hospitality industry

Three RIT graduates from the class of 2008 have transformed a key portion of how Rochester-area hotels do business—and they’re looking... [more]

Research team hopes to shift photonics technologies to widespread use

Photonics, the study and application of electromagnetic energy through the manipulation of light, has been utilized to develop some of our... [more]

Novelist delves into soul of a simple man

Love and loss, faith and redemption, and the search for one’s own identity stretch across the pages of Robert Chandler’s first... [more]

New opportunities, insights came with hearing loss

Melissa Skyer ’06 (M.S., environmental science) is a poet, dancer, artist, nature lover and environmental scientist. Next year, she’ll add eco tour... [more]

Six Men's Track and Field Athletes Earn 2008 USTFCCCA Division III Academic All-American Honors; Tigers Also Recognized as a Team

ROCHESTER, NY - Six members of the RIT men's track and field team earned 2008 United States Track and Field... [more]

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Two RIT students spent a summer working for the FBI– and both hope to pursue careers with the elite law-enforcement agency. [more]

In Focus

RIT’s Women in Engineering program hosted a two-week summer camp for middle school girls. The camp, developed and presented by RIT students,... [more]

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