| RIT incubator to
help predict academic trends |
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focus of Wiley McKinzie this winter and spring will be developing an “academic
program incubator,” a center that joins technology forecasters, demographers,
marketing specialists and instructional designers to identify emerging technologies
and fields, research future job markets and more rapidly develop new academic
programs and delivery systems in engineering and technology. By forecasting
the needs of industry and government, the incubator will cut the time needed
to spot emerging fields and create programs of study, benefiting students,
businesses and other universities.
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| RIT awarded $400K
HUD grant |
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RIT
was awarded a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development to continue and expand its partnership with the NorthEast Neighborhood
Alliance. NENA is a resident-driven planning and coordination initiative
committed to comprehensive neighborhood development in three northeast Rochester
neighborhoods through citizen empowerment and ownership. The mission of
this partnership is to support and propel the implementation of the NENA
Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan while broadening and deepening the educational
experience for RIT students through co-ops, internships, independent study,
volunteer opportunities and complementary courses.
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| A holiday message
from the president |
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The
holiday season provides an opportunity to reflect on the year so quickly
passing and look forward to the new year on the horizon. At RIT, we have
much to celebrate! Through the hard work, dedication and tremendous capabilities
of the members of the RIT community, 2003 has been a tremendously successful
year. Our achievements are too numerous to name here, but you all should
share a sense of pride as you think about what we’ve accomplished together
for the benefit of our students and, indeed, for our nation and the world.
I thank you all for your efforts.
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| Countdown is on to
historic “Wright” flight |
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Goggles—check.
Scarf—check. Test flight—check. Kevin Kochersberger, associate
professor of mechanical engineering, and organizers of Countdown to Kitty
Hawk and the First Flight Centennial Celebration recently took another step
toward next week’s reenactment of the Wright brothers’ first powered
flight. In a test flight on Nov. 20, Kochersberger flew a reproduction 1903
Wright Flyer for more than 100 feet. At 10:35 a.m. on Dec. 17—the 100th
anniversary, to the minute, of the Wright brothers’ historic flight—Kochersberger
or Terry Queijo will take the controls in Wright Brothers National Memorial,
a national park near Kitty Hawk, N.C., and fly 119 feet, a foot less than
the Wright brothers’ first flight. Each was named a Pilot of the Century
by the Experimental Aircraft Association last summer, and a coin toss will
determine who pilots the craft first next week.
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| ICE CAPADE . . . RIT’s School of Art students, faculty
and alumni chiseled their way through six blocks of ice—weighing
300 pounds each—for Gallery r’s annual show-stopping display
during the Park Avenue Winter Fest on Dec. 4. This profile was one
of the favorites. |
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