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April 25, 2017
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RIT motorsport teams unveil new race vehicles
RIT’s three sleek Formula racecars, Baja off-road vehicle, Hot Wheelz hybrid electric Formula car and EVO, the electric motorcycle, all built by RIT students, will be unveiled as part of the Imagine RIT festival on May 6. -
April 13, 2017
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RIT hosts Grammy-winning recording engineer
Richard King, professor of music research at McGill University, will discuss how science influences the art of recording for the 2017 CAST Dean’s Lecture Series on April 19. -
April 11, 2017
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RIT hosts Plastics Night today
Current research in new plastic and polymer-based materials for applications such as photonics, construction and mechanical systems will be featured during Plastics Night at RIT. -
April 6, 2017
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RITz dinner anchors RIT Croatia’s 20th anniversary
Marko SekuliÄá ’04, director of Business Development at the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice, is the Honorary Chair of the 2017 RITz Dinner Event taking place on Friday at the Hotel Imperial Dubrovnik. The annual dinner is one of the events highlighting RIT Croatia’s 20th anniversary. -
March 28, 2017
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Marketing job gets alumnus out of a pickle
Filip Keuppens ’99 (hotel and resort management) took his hospitality degree, combined it with his love of sports and found the perfect job. -
March 28, 2017
![Mike Jeffries speaking to an audience, not pictured, from behind a computer. On a screen behind him is a photo of robots fighting each other.]()
Robot pastime helped alumnus build career
Mike Jeffries is proud when Bombshell is on the attack, knowing there’s no “tapping out” or yielding in competitions. During this past season of ABC’s BattleBots show, taped over the summer, Bombshell and Jeffries’ Chaos Corps team battled to an impressive second place finish. -
March 28, 2017
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Graduates construct Rochester Top 100 company
Justin Hamilton and Christopher Stern were standing on the basketball court sidelines in 1998 when they started talking about majors. That was the beginning of Hamilton Stern Construction, a company that was No. 1 on the Rochester Chamber Top 100 list of fastest growing private companies in 2016. -
March 28, 2017
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Education fueled by hard work—and fruit cakes
Rosalie Rosini is proof that age is just a number and that life is what you make it to be. The 70-year-old, who celebrated the 50th anniversary of her graduation from RIT last May, said that she’s more active in her life now than she’s ever been. -
March 10, 2017
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ROTC student earns Gold Congressional Award
Meet Gabriel Curcione, a first-year mechanical engineering technology major and member of the Air Force ROTC. -
March 8, 2017
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Packaging science students host Packaging Jamboree
The 32nd annual Packaging Jamboree focuses on innovations and technologies that are helping improve problems in the environment. It is organized and run entirely by students. -
February 23, 2017
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Student prepares for conference championship game
Meet Jessica Glaz, a third-year packaging science student, who is a guard for the women’s basketball team. The team will compete in the Liberty League championship game on Saturday. -
February 17, 2017
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Air Force ROTC holds blood drive March 6
RIT’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 538 and the Greater Rochester chapter of the Red Cross are sponsoring the 2017 annual blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 6 at the Gordon Field House.
