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Kayla Zerby, a 2005 graduate, celebrates at last year’s ceremony.The cycle of higher learning is racing toward another climax as RIT prepares to celebrate its 121st annual commencement. Graduating students, their family and friends, and the entire campus community will converge for a weekend of pomp and
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| Innovator to deliver convocation address |
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Dean Kamen–inventor, entrepreneur and an advocate for science and technology–will be keynote speaker at RIT’s 2006 Academic Convocation, part of the university’s 121st Commencement.
Kamen, who holds more than 150 U.S. and foreign patents, invented the first wearable infusion pump while still in college. In 1976, he founded
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| Simone to retire |
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At a May 17 news conference, Albert Simone, RIT’s eighth president, announced his intention to retire in mid-2007.President Albert Simone, RIT’s eighth president, will retire in mid-2007. Simone’s career in higher education has spanned nearly 50 years, during which time he served as an economics professor, a
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| RIT students develop deep-sea explorer |
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Dan Scoville ’05, left, and Matt Paluch, a fifth-year electrical engineering major, lower an underwater remote-operated vehicle into Judson Pool in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center for testing. The device, designed and built for a senior design project, will be used to explore Lake Ontario
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| SG president makes history |
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Elizabeth SorkinElizabeth “Lizzie” Sorkin, a film/video and animation major, was elected as 2006-2007 Student Government president, making her the first deaf student government president at a U.S. college comprised of mostly hearing students.
“One of RIT’s many assets is that as a community, we embrace diversity, not just
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| New software assists Web site developers |
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Software engineering students, from left to right, Marc Baumbach, Kyle Shank and Matt Kent created RadRails. Visit www.radrails.org.Marc Baumbach, Matt Kent and Kyle Shank, all software engineering undergraduate students, are on the fast track: the creation of their open-source software project RadRails has led to accolades, awards
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| Clinton supports RIT research |
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Software engineering students, from left to right, Marc Baumbach, Kyle Shank and Matt Kent created RadRails. Visit www.radrails.org.Marc Baumbach, Matt Kent and Kyle Shank, all software engineering undergraduate students, are on the fast track: the creation of their open-source software project RadRails has led to accolades, awards
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| Former mayor at home in the classroom |
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Bill Johnson Jr. has a new perspective these days. Instead of stewarding a city, he’s leading a classroom, introducing RIT students
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Not just a day at the beach
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Greg Francis | photographer RIT's concrete canoe, center, paddled by Jennifer Hill, front, and Jasmine Vasquez, civil engineering technology majors, pulls ahead of the University of Buffalo, foreground, and Clarkson University in a women's race during the Upstate New York Regional Concrete Canoe Competition hosted by RIT on April 29 in Mendon Ponds Park. RIT earned first place in the men's, women's and co-ed sprint events and third place in the men's endurance contest. Clarkson University captured first place overall to advance to the national competition next month. In a companion event, also hosted by RIT, SUNY Canton took first place in a regional steel-bridge design contest. More than 200 students from a dozen colleges in New York state and Canada participated in the two competitions.
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