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Inauguration celebrates RIT’s legacy of leaders

The legacy of RIT presidents runs deep from Carleton Gibson to Albert Simone. Now the leadership torch is in the hands of Bill Destler, who was installed as RIT’s ninth president Friday at an inauguration ceremony in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Nearly

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The RIT community mourns the loss of two students

RIT reserved time during its inaugural celebration on Nov. 9 to acknowledge the lives of two students who died during a house fire earlier in the day. Seth Policzer, a fourth-year computer engineering student from Parkland, Fla., and Syed Ali Turab, a fourth-year professional and

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RIT researcher studies deaths caused by marine emissions

Pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung- cancer deaths around the world each year, according to a report scheduled to appear in the Dec. 15 issue of Environmental Science and Technology, the journal of the American Chemical Society. The report benchmarks

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RIT scientists’ discovery featured in Nature

A group of RIT scientists has confirmed for the first time that supermassive black holes can produce powerful winds that shape their surrounding galaxy and regulate their own growth. RIT physicists Stuart Young, David Axon and Andrew Robinson and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire

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NTID receives $95K to host national summit

E. William Clymer, associate director of NTID’s Center on Access Technology, has been awarded a $95,188 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure for a Summit to Create a Cyber-Community to Advance Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and

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The legacy of RIT’s presidents comes to life
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The images and memorabilia shown above are part of the latest exhibit at the RIT Museum located on the third floor of Wallace Library. RIT Presidents: A Legacy of Leadership, installed to coincide with President Bill Destler’s inauguration, looks at the nine presidents of RIT using photographs and documents to give a look at their lives and what they have accomplished. The exhibit runs until March 7.

A. Sue Weisler | photographer


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