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September 21, 2022
RIT’s Battery Prototyping Center expands with help from Build Back Better funding
The Rochester Business Journal talks to Ryne Raffaelle, RIT vice president for research and associate provost, about expanding RIT's Battery Prototyping Center. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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September 19, 2022
RIT partners with prestigious National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Hub
In a move to further enhance an already robust innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, RIT is partnering with the NSF’s I-Corps Hub: Interior Northeast Region. RIT will join a consortium of 10 renowned regional colleges and universities that will utilize $15 million in NSF funding over the next five years to implement and execute a cohesive innovation ecosystem that delivers inclusive models of education and workforce training.
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September 15, 2022
Image Permanence Institute receives significant grant to research plastic deterioration
The Image Permanence Institute, housed in RIT’s College of Art and Design, received a National Leadership Grant for Museums from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for research into plastic deterioration of modern heritage collections, specifically their physical response to storage and display environments.
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September 14, 2022
JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology
Scientific American talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, about what information scientists are learning from the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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September 13, 2022
RIT named ‘Diversity Champion’ and HEED Award winner by ‘INSIGHT Into Diversity’
RIT received two prestigious awards from the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine designated RIT as a 2022 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award recipient and a 2022 Diversity Champion.
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September 12, 2022
RIT recognized as one of New York state’s best employers
RIT was recognized by Forbes on its 2022 list of America’s Best Employers by State. RIT ranked 20th in New York state, making it the highest rated university in the Greater Rochester region.
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September 7, 2022
RIT’s Battery Prototyping Center part of state team awarded millions to establish Battery-NY
RIT is part of a major national initiative that secured more than $63.7 million to establish upstate New York as a national hub for battery research and manufacturing. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer announced that Binghamton University’s New Energy New York Proposal secured substantial funding for the new hub, Battery-NY, which will include partners such as RIT’s Battery Prototyping Center and New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology.
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August 31, 2022
Best Accredited Colleges: Best Bachelor Degrees in Cybersecurity
RIT’s bachelor’s degree in computing security ranks No. 16 by Best Accredited Colleges.
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August 30, 2022
Therapeutic benefits of fly fishing is focus of RIT Press book
The restorative properties of fly fishing and its ability to ease suffering in people recovering from trauma, addiction, and disease are explored in a new book by lifelong fly fisherman Patrick Scanlon.
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August 26, 2022
Webb telescope is already challenging what astronomers thought they knew
The Washington Post talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, about the influx of data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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August 23, 2022
RIT named among the nation’s ‘Best 388 Colleges’
RIT remains one of the nation’s best universities for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education-services company features RIT in the just-published 2023 edition of its book The Best 388 Colleges.
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August 16, 2022
Open@RIT receives Sloan Foundation grant to continue supporting open work
RIT’s open programs office has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to build external partnerships and continue supporting those doing work in the open community.