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PAETEC leads sponsorship of Innovation and Creativity Festival

Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival is poised to become the new annual kickoff to Rochester’s rich festival season. Imagine RIT, which will take place from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday, May 3, on the RIT campus, is designed to demonstrate what can be

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RIT appoints new provost

Jeremy Haefner, a veteran administrator and educator from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, has been appointed RIT’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. President Bill Destler announced the selection on March 10. Haefner was chosen from a field of five

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RIT plays a hand in N.Y. pollution prevention

Through a recently announced New York state initiative, RIT will play an integral role in the development of technologies and processes designed to prevent pollution. RIT will host the newly created Pollution Prevention Institute, a statewide research and development center that will design and

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Student stays the course until the job’s done

Becca Nelson has taken the term distance learning to a new level. Nelson has been pursuing her master’s degree while conducting missionary work in Nairobi, Kenya–taking the skills she’s learning in her virtual classroom and putting them right to work in a real-life setting. “Because

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DeCaro, student Faulkner win service awards (March 18)

RIT will honor James DeCaro and student Angelina Faulkner with this year’s Alfred L. Davis Public Service Awards. The awards, created by Vice President Emeritus Alfred Davis in tribute to the four RIT presidents that he served in his career, recognize those individuals who

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Is there a doctor in the house?
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Local high school students attended a Medical Sciences Career Day March 3 at RIT’s Center for Biosciences Education and Technology to explore career options in the fields of medical ultrasound, physician assistant, biotechnology and exercise science and sports medicine. The event was sponsored by the center and the College of Science. Here, some students from Greece Olympia High School try out ultrasound imaging.

A. Sue Weisler | photographer


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