News
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September 21, 2021
RIT awarded nearly $2 million for NSF Research Traineeship Program, AWARE-AI
To help address a lack of diversity, as well as gaps in AI curricula, RIT was awarded a grant of nearly $2 million by the NSF to create a new research traineeship program for graduate students
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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
RIT receives $3M donations in patents, annual award for students
WHEC-TV features RIT's recent announcement about a donation of two patents and the creation of Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence.
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September 14, 2021
RIT's doctoral programs receive boost with new patents
WHAM-TV features RIT's recent announcement about a donation of two patents and the creation of Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence.
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September 10, 2021
Alumnus who tracked Flight 93 as air traffic manager shares his 9/11 memories
Rick Kettell ’84 (logistics and transportation management) is a retired Federal Aviation Administration senior manager. In 2001, he was the air traffic manager at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center and tracked Flight 93 before it crashed in Somerset County, Pa., on Sept. 11.
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September 10, 2021
Remembering two alumni who died in Sept. 11 attacks
Deborah L. Medwig ’78 was a passenger on United Airlines flight 175, the second hijacked plane to strike the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, and Philip M. Rosenzweig ’77 was among the passengers who died when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower.
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September 1, 2021
Saunders College of Business celebrates upcoming expansion and renovation with ceremonial groundbreaking
Saunders College of Business celebrated the expansion and renovation of Max Lowenthal Hall with a ceremonial groundbreaking Aug. 31. RIT President David Munson and Saunders College Dean Jacqueline Mozrall were joined by donors E. Philip Saunders, Susan Riedman Holliday, Chance Wright, Brigitte Gueldenpfennig, and Dinah Gueldenpfennig Weisberg during the college’s annual welcome picnic.
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August 31, 2021
Quite Frankly, Kristen Risk Has Given the Spirits Industry a Whole Fresh Take
Adweek features Kristen Risk '90 (business administration), co-founder and SVP of marketing communications of Frankly Organic Vodka.
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August 30, 2021
RIT alumnus creates new game used as icebreaker for New Student Orientation
John McNicholl, a 2021 RIT graduate from Commack, N.Y, has launched a new game—Deceiver—that is now available on Amazon and at Shop One on campus and was recently incorporated into RIT’s New Student Orientation program as an icebreaker.
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August 27, 2021
‘Just Watching With Horror’: A photographer in Afghanistan on the eve of collapse
Politico features Paula Bronstein '78 (photojournalism) detailing her experience on assignment in Afghanistan leading up to the Taliban takeover.
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August 27, 2021
RIT to break ground on 35,000-square-foot business school expansion
Rochester Business Journal features the expansion and upgrades coming to Lowenthal Hall, home of Saunders College of Business.
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August 17, 2021
New eatery Biscotti Brewers brings gluten-free excitement to downtown Rochester
WROC-TV features Kayla Sandoval '15 (mechanical engineering technology), owner of Biscotti Brewers.