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October 11, 2024
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Photo taken by Zachary Aumen, a BFA student in Photojournalism, on a recent trip to Chicago from a boat tour of the city. Follow on Instagram @aumen.photography. Submit your photo.

  
 
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Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend

When: October 18, October 19, and October 20, 2024

Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend is a longstanding RIT tradition of celebrating families, students, alumni, staff, and friends of the University with one spectacular weekend in October. Check out the very many events that will be going on campus over these days!
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A promotional banner for a "Coffee Hour Game Edition" event scheduled for October 24th, 2024.

October Graduate Student Coffee Hour - Game Edition

When: October 24, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Where: University Services Center, USC 87-3200

Stop by the October Graduate Student Coffee Hour. We're providing coffee and several games for this month's event!
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Together RIT 2024

When: October 25, 2024, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Theme: Deaf Culture, Disability and Neurodiversity

Together RIT is gathering the community to engage in intentional and honest dialogue about race, ethnicity, and racism. It offers the opportunity to share their work, passions, ideas, critiques, initiatives, performances, and artistic projects with the RIT community through sessions held in-person. Together RIT creates a space to ask questions, empathize, build solidarity, and give recognition to our coexistence as creators, learners, scholars and peers.Registration is now open until Wednesday, October 16 at 12:00pm.
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3 Minute Thesis—3MT Competition Finals

When: November 04, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Where: Wegmans Theater, MAGIC Center

Watch RIT Doctoral Students Compete by Explaining Their Research in 3 Minutes! An important aspect of the competition is the People’s Choice prize. Following all presentations, the audience is asked to vote on who they thought gave the most convincing 3MT presentation.
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A portrait banner of Juliana Lutzer, a fifth-year student from the College of Health Sciences and Technology.

Clinical experience gives RIT physician assistant student a new perspective

Lutzer chose a career as a physician assistant for the high level of patient interaction, variety, and flexibility. She likes knowing that she can practice medicine in different specialty areas throughout her career.

Read full story by Susan Gawlowicz >
the logo for the "Three Minute Thesis (3MT)" competition, founded by the University of Queensland, is predominantly purple and white text.

RIT Graduate School Challenges PhD Students in 3 Minute Thesis Competition  

The premise of the 3MT Competition sounds simple: participants are challenged to present their research in an engaging manner to a general audience in just three minutes. They can use a single, static slide to help illustrate their work, but no additional props or visuals are permitted.

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The cover of a book titled "Munsell Trees" by Mark D. Fairchild, subtitled "A Season of Leaves and Colors". It shows a vibrant, autumn leaf and a color bar on the left displaying a range of colors from green to red,

The color science of leaves in a western New York forest is focus of RIT Press book

Black oak, crabapple, crimson maple—a color scientist finds inspiration in the woods in the new book Munsell Trees: A Season of Leaves and Colors, published by RIT Press

Read full story by Susan Gawlowicz >
 
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RIT Libraries Resource of the Month—October

RIT Libraries invites you to a virtual information session to learn more about our highlighted resource of the month: ACM Digital Library.

Please join our GCCIS and Student Success Librarian, Greyson Pasiak, who will be presenting on this valuable resource, on October 16, 2024, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM on Zoom. The ACM Digital Library is an online database with special interest groups that focus on high quality research. The ACM has a Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control's whose mission it is to develop the information security profession by sponsoring research conferences and workshops.

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