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The Conversation features Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) has announced 13 winners of its 2022-2023 Community Grants Program as part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to continue improving the health and environmental quality of New York state.

A feasibility study led by the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) and Clarkson University will determine if a common byproduct of steelmaking can be used as a concrete ingredient.

A new collaboration between RIT’s New York State Pollution Institute (NYSP2I) and the Center for Sustainable Community Solutions (CSCS) at Syracuse University aims to stem wasted food in rural New York State.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, headquartered at RIT since 2008, has issued a request for proposals for its Research and Development program from the organization’s partner universities—RIT, Binghamton University, Clarkson University, Cornell University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

A national manufacturing institute led by Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, is marking five years of accelerating the transition to a circular economy in the United States.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute is collaborating with Syracuse University’s Center for Sustainable Community Solutions on a grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assist communities and stakeholders in New York state with reducing the amount of edible food that goes to waste.  

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) is accepting applications for the organization’s 2022-2023 Community Grants Program. Founded in 2008, the program is part of the NYSP2I’s ongoing efforts to continue improving the health and environmental quality of New York state.

Davies Office Inc. will work with GIS to assess and improve its inventory management processes. The project aims to reduce transportation and material handling costs, achieve better manufacturing lead times, and cut greenhouse gas emissions for the company based in Albany, New York.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute has announced selections for its 2021-2022 Community Grants Program as part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to continue improving the health and environmental quality of New York state.

The REMADE Institute (REMADE) selected four projects for award that were proposed by GIS researchers, a funding award totaling $3.5 million. Research will see GIS developing circular economy solutions in partnership with the companies Autodesk, BigBattery, BorgWarner, Caterpillar, and Nike, among others.

Abu Islam recently joined GIS’s research staff. He was previously the director of the advanced technology group at Xerox where he led development of next-generation printing technologies.