Today’s Top Stories

RIT renames global campus to RIT Kosovo
RIT and the American University in Kosovo Foundation Inc. signed an agreement to officially rename the RIT/A.U.K. global campus to RIT Kosovo.
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Receive real-time commencement updates
Text RITGRAD to 888777 for important updates throughout the commencement weekend, including safety, weather, traffic and emergency alerts. In addition, all of D Lot and N Lot will be closed from 11:30 p.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. Saturday.
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Parking information for Tuesday’s Corporate Challenge
To accommodate this community event, RIT is encouraging departments to allow employees and students not participating in the Challenge to leave campus at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Commencement 2016

More graduates leaving RIT with two degrees
University News is highlighting a few members of the Class of 2016. Today, read about students who are graduating with two degrees. See more commencement news at rit.edu/news/commencement.
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Student Newsmakers

Student presents poster at conference
Smith Agyingi, a fourth-year biomedical sciences major from Rochester, presented a poster on “Susceptibility to Sickle Cell Co-Morbidities is Regulated by Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the TOLLIP Gene” at the Experimental Biology Conference in San Diego April 2-6.
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Newsmakers

Charles Bachmann, the Frederick and Anna B. Wiedman Chair in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, presented “Retrieval of Sediment Fill Factor from Hyperspectral BRDF Measurements of Coastal (and Desert) Sediments” at the SPIE Commercial and Scientific Sensing and Imaging conference in Baltimore April 17-21. more Newsmakers »

Sports News

Seven baseball players earn 2016 All-Liberty League accolades
Seven members of the baseball team earned 2016 All-Liberty League postseason honors. Will Gorman earned first-team selection. Three players were second team selections, while three more earned honorable mention accolades.
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RIT in the News

The Christian Science Monitor
Opinion: Justin Bieber deserves his privacy, too
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Ottawa Citizen
Ontario's vaccine "education" must appeal to emotion, expert says
Brian Koberlein, senior lecturer in physics, featured more »

Home Furnishings Business
ICFF Announces 2016 Editors' Awards Winners
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OpenSource.com
Mission accomplished! NASA developer challenge comes to RIT
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Examiner.com
Artist spotlight: Ellen Silberlicht
Ellen Silberlicht '80 (ceramics and ceramic sculpture) featured more »