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October 18, 2024

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Photo by Shreya Talegaonkar, MFA '24, Visual Communication Design, “Holding onto Fall 🍁." Follow on Instagram @shreyatalegaonkar.

 
 
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LinkedIn and Your Job Search

When: October 23, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Where: Student Hall for Exploration and Development, SHD-3350

Discover the features of LinkedIn that go beyond a great profile. Join us to learn how you can dive into your job search through networking, interacting with groups, exploring jobs, and more.

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Bow Wow Wellness

When: October 23, 2024, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Where: Fireside Lounge (SAU)

Having a ruff day? Come see your your favorite furry friends are back! Stop by the Fireside Lounge to de-stress with therapy dogs. If you're missing your fur family at home, come hang out with these pups and take a break to feel refreshed and relaxed.

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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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Leadership Retreat: Crash Course

When: October 27, 2024, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Where: Bamboo Rooms 2610/2650

Are you interested in remote controlled cars? Team building and more? Join us for a Leadership Retreat that will put your driving skills to the test and challenge you and your teammates to navigate a series of challenges to win.

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Scholarship in the 21st Century: What I've Learned from Preprints: How we can challenge inequities in scholarly communication

When: October 28, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Where: Campus Center, Bamboo Room 2610

Join RIT Libraries and the Open Scholarship Community Rochester for a discussion with guest speaker Dr. Monica Granados on the potential shift in preprints as the primary scholarly communication output and the tools that are being built around them to improve peer review and access to knowledge.

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Pumpkin Carving Party at the Lobozzo Alumni House

When: October 28, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Joseph M. Lobozzo Alumni House

Carve your way into Halloween! Our 2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving Party is back and better than ever. Come join us for a spooky night of fun and creativity. The event is open to students and their guests. Space is limited, so register today!

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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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Ph.D. student gains YouTube following for machine learning explainer videos

Over the past five years, Dutta’s channel has amassed more than 100,000 subscribers. His most popular video—about Markov Chains Clearly Explained—has 1.2 million views.

Read full story by Scott Bureau >

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Irshad Altheimer honored with the inaugural Ellen M. Granberg endowed professorship

Irshad Altheimer has made a significant impact on both the RIT and greater Rochester communities during his 12 years teaching at the university.

Read full story by Felicia Swartzenberg >

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Third annual Together RIT coming up on October 25

Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to join in a day of conversation, panels, and presentations intended to offer the opportunity to engage in intentional and honest dialogue about diversity and inclusion topics.

Read full story by by Mollie Radzinski >

 
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TEDxRIT Call for Speakers and Presenters

TEDxRIT 2025 is officially announcing a call for speakers and presenters! We invite all students, staff, and faculty of RIT to nominate themselves for a talk under the theme "Innovation at the Intersection". All ideas, research, projects, perspectives, and more are welcomed and encouraged (for example it does not need to be an innovative product, it can be an innovative approach to a subject or idea). Previous talks can be found under TEDxRIT 2024. Nominations are due by November 10th, 2024.

The form can be found here.

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