RIT’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies is in line to receive an additional $3 million in federal funding for its defense research program. U.S. Reps. Randy Kuhl Jr. and Thomas Reynolds announced this month that the House Committee on Appropriations included the funds for CIMS’ Systems Modernization
Hope for a more prosperous upstate New York economy is rising—literally —on the RIT campus.
Construction of a facility for the IT Collaboratory, an RIT-led research collaboration with University of Buffalo and Alfred University, is well underway. The three-story, 30,000-square-foot building is being built directly north of the Center for Microelectronics and Computer Engineering.
In recognition of his four decades of service to deaf and hard-of-hearing students, the founding director of NTID is being honored with the creation of a garden. The Dr. D. Robert Frisina Quadrangle Garden on campus was dedicated by President Albert Simone on June 14. “We have been wanting to honor Dr. Frisina for some time,
PRism Awards recognize University News Services for crisis management
University News Services earned Best of Show honors for a crisis communication plan at this year’s PRism Awards ceremony, sponsored by the Rochester Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The crisis plan was a key tool in controlling the flow of information and protecting the university’s reputation for safety following last fall’s robbery at Cross-roads Café & Market.
Millions of personal computers sit idly in businesses and homes worldwide. What if each of the world’s estimated 650 million PCs could be linked to focus on the most complex biological, environmental and health-related issues? RIT is a new partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corp. and a group of other universities, foundations and companies.
Spray from a water hose helped to cool runners as they reached the 1-mile mark near S-Lot at the 15th JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge held
June 2 on the RIT campus. A total of 8,663 runners and walkers took on
the 3.5-mile course around campus on a stellar sunny evening.
