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For the 11th consecutive year, RIT has been named one of the greenest universities by The Princeton Review.

More than 100 thought leaders and executives from around the world—including South Korea, Japan, and Europe—gathered virtually Oct. 20-21 for the RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference, which featured the latest information on emerging trends and issues of critical importance to the remanufacturing industry.  

A $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation will be used to establish the first national academic research network on wasted food in the United States. Under the grant, researchers from American University will lead 13 other institutions, including RIT, in a five-year project.

RIT awarded $1.1M in CARES Act funding to help small and mid-sized manufacturers (SMMs) in Upstate New York State leverage Industry 4.0 to recover from the economic impact of COVID-19.

WXXI talks to Ava Labuzetta, an environmental engineer with the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, about what happens when food waste is put into landfills.

The 2021 RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference will take place online October 20-21, bringing thought leaders together virtually for the first time to discuss the post-COVID-19 landscape.

Dr. Nabil Nasr will lead the research and development of a second report to a U.N. Environment Programme panel focused on the benefits of value-retention processes (VRPs).

Ambika Walker has joined the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) as a program manager of outreach and education.

A two-day event focused on the challenges of reducing waste and energy use in brewer operations.

RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability to develop a new toolkit that will help manufacturers overcome barriers to adopting digital technologies.

Move over, Silicon Valley. Rochester, N.Y., can be the next great American technology hub.

A team of researchers from the Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was selected for a $700K award from the REMADE Institute.