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The Rochester Beacon features Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival.

Tiger Woods captured his fifth Masters championship on Sunday, and Jason Getz ’98 (photojournalism) captured the image of a lifetime.

Mahany Welding Supply donated two gas metal arc welding cells and two gas tungsten arc welding cells to be used within an advanced manufacturing degree program in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology to provide needed workforce skills.

“The Future of Technology, the Arts and Design,” a futurists symposium, takes place at 11 a.m. April 27 during Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival. Four RIT alumni will share their visions of the future as it relates to RIT’s core disciplines.

Professor Josh Owen led an eight-day design-centric tour of Iceland during its biggest design festival called DesignMarch. The group of 17 went on design-focused tours of Reykjavík, met with local designers and attended design presentations and workshops.

An RIT-funded spring break excursion to the heart of entrepreneurship and innovation aimed to give students the tools and inspiration to take their ideas to the next level.

NTID celebrated 50 years since the establishment of the world’s first technological college for deaf students with a rededication ceremony April 5. Attendees included members of the original faculty and class of NTID students from 1968 and Lucinda Robb, granddaughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1965, President Johnson signed Public Law 89-36, allowing for the creation of NTID. The rededication marks the first time that a relative of President Johnson has visited the campus since Lady Bird Johnson visited in 1974.

Ron Sherman ’64 (photography) can tell you exactly what he was doing on April 8, 1974. And now so can baseball fans. Sherman was at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium with more than 100 photographers capturing the moment Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old Major League record.

The Chicago Tribune interviews John Hartmann ’85 (criminal justice), president and CEO of True Value Co.

RIT is hosting a special viewing of To Err is Human: A Patient Safety Documentary, which investigates the struggle within the U.S. health care system to prevent medical mistakes. An expert panel discussion will follow the documentary.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy features Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness.

Some people see massive environmental issues as unsalvageable, but Kristen Denninger Snyder ’10 sees them as motivation to keep working toward environmental conservation. Later this year, she will open the Research and Innovation for the Serengeti Ecosystem (RISE​) in Tanzania and serve as the center’s head scientist.