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US Senate approves $3 million for NCR3
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The
recently-approved Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee bill includes
an additional $3 million appropriation for RIT’s Center for Remanufacturing
and Resource Recovery (NCR3), part of the Center for Integrated Manufacturing
Studies. The funding was included in the bill thanks to the efforts
of Sen. Charles Schumer, who requested the funds on RIT’s behalf.
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NTID career program awarded $30,000 grant
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NEC
Foundation of America has provided a $30,000 grant to benefit deaf
high school students nationwide who participate in Explore Your Future
(EYF), a career awareness program at the National Technical Institute
for the Deaf.
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Toyota grant for COS
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RIT’s
College of Science recently won an $85,000 grant from the Toyota USA
Foundation and was designated as the higher-education site in central
and western New York for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit
the Environment (GLOBE) program. A team from RIT, Monroe #1 Board of
Cooperative Educational Services and local school districts will train
80 science teachers in GLOBE protocols for collecting and recording
field data. The teachers will train their students to carry out GLOBE
investigations on land around their school property, and to post their
data on the Internet.
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Corporate donations
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The
School of Printing Management and Sciences reports new gains in its
state-of-the-art facility, thanks to the generosity of some corporate
partners. Five companies have recently donated technology and other
equipment that will be used by the school’s electronic prepress,
color imaging and publishing labs. The donations by Kodak Professional,
X-Rite Inc., GTI Graphic Technology, Color Vision and Champion International
represent a combined value of more than $57,000.
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Intel professor to partner with industry
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Bruce
Smith, professor of microelectronic engineering, has been named Intel
Professor of Research/Technology at RIT through $100,000 funding from
Intel Corp.
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Clip-and-save RIT telephone book corrections for 2000
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The
following additions and corrections to the -2K- campus directory, new
information is in bold type. Additional information will be published
as received and as space allows (e-mail changes to kmbcmp@rit.edu).
To assist in data gathering for future directories, faIculty and staff
are asked to update their records on the Web at www.rit.edu/Phone.
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RIT’s United Way campaign wraps up
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"Lady
Luck" shined on RIT and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
during this year’s United Way campaign as two NTID employees
won top prizes.
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Birthplace excursion ends in tragedy
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A
first-ever trip oversees for a film and video student ended tragically
last month, due to a case of meningitis.
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Duo to conquer Alaska for AIDS research
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According
to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 13 million men,
women and children worldwide have died of AIDS, and an estimated 30
million people are living with HIV now. As a result, one RIT staff
member and her husband, a former RIT student, will embark on an incredible
journey to help make a difference and find a cure.
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International visitors strengthen Croatian ties
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For
two weeks in June, RIT’s packaging science department welcomed
15 students from Croatia. The students are packaging science majors
in RIT’s executive leader master’s program at the University
of Zagreb.
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