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March 22, 2019
Student Spotlight: Student attends Diversity Abroad Student Leadership Summit
Meet Kevin Mejia, a fourth-year business management and international and global studies student who recently attended the fifth annual Diversity Abroad Global Student Leadership Summit.
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March 22, 2019
RIT Libraries hosts Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon March 22
Women are the subject of less than 30 percent of biographies on Wikipedia, and RIT Libraries is seeking the community’s help to improve gender equity on the internet’s leading source of information.
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March 22, 2019
Two comics illustrators to share experiences March 26 and April 4 at RIT
Noah Van Sciver, an Ignatz award-winning graphic novelist and illustrator, will discuss his work across genres in comics on March 26, and Kriota Willberg will discuss her new book, Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists and Visual Artists, and her work across media in graphic medicine on April 4.
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March 22, 2019
RIT Alumna Jackie Siegel holds book signing for ‘Victoria’s Voice’
Jackie “Queen of Versailles” Siegel ’89 (computer engineering technology) will be at the RIT Joseph Lobozzo Alumni House 3-5 p.m. Friday, March 29, to host a book signing, discussion and reception for her newly released book, Victoria’s Voice, which tells the story of Siegel’s late daughter and her struggle with drug use.
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March 21, 2019
Student Spotlight: Student attends Diversity Abroad Student Leadership Summit
Meet Kevin Mejia, a fourth-year business management and international and global studies student who recently attended the fifth annual Diversity Abroad Global Student Leadership Summit.
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March 21, 2019
RIT to premiere short film aimed at promoting dialogue on diversity and inclusion
RIT will debut a new short film to be used as a tool for promoting dialogue on diversity and inclusion. Brick by Brick, presented by RIT Diversity Theater, premieres at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 28, in Wegmans Theater at MAGIC Spell Studios.
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March 21, 2019
Saunders College professorship facilitates ‘unlikely’ interdisciplinary research relationships
As The Benjamin Forman Collaborative Research Professorship, Victor Perotti acts as a facilitator for research alliances that benefit students and faculty that find value in building a portfolio around unique interdisciplinary partnerships.
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March 21, 2019
RIT’s NTID Performing Arts presents August Wilson’s ‘Fences,’ April 11-14
Fences, the American play written by August Wilson, will be presented next month by the Performing Arts department of RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Shows will run at 7:30 p.m. April 11-13, and 2 p.m. April 14, in Panara Theatre, Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall, on the RIT campus.
Campus Spotlight
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March 22, 2019
Photo by A. Sue Weisler
Four alumni from the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, each of whom has been recognized as either a Pulitzer Prize winner or finalist in the last decade, presented a program at the RIT City Art Space. From left, Edmund Fountain '03 (2010 finalist); David Carson '94 (2015 winner); David Wallace '01 (2018 winner); and Paula Bronstein '78 (2011 finalist) visited the RIT campus for a series of special events from March 19-22. The events were organized by the College of Art and Design's four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer William Snyder, professor and photojournalism undergraduate program director.
RIT President’s Report 2019
We at RIT have a great story to tell, and the first annual President’s Report is only the beginning. See why RIT isn’t like any other university.
Media Coverage
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March 21, 2019
5 Tips to Improve Your Corporate Cybersecurity
Guest blog by , published on the edX Business Insights Series.
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March 21, 2019
Connections: Photojournalism Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists on visual storytelling, part 2
WXXI’s “Connections” program features a number of RIT alumni who have been selected as winners or finalists for Pulitzer Prizes in photojournalism, in a two-part series.
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March 21, 2019
This High-Tech Toilet Seat Can Detect Heart Failure
Futurism reports on a toilet-seat based cardiovascular monitoring system created by a team of RIT researchers, led by postdoctoral fellow Nicholas Conn.
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March 21, 2019
Connections: Photojournalism Pulitzer Prize winners/finalists on visual storytelling, part 1
WXXI’s “Connections” program features a number of RIT alumni who have been selected as winners or finalists for Pulitzer Prizes in photojournalism, in a two-part series.