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January 15, 2025
New program connects multidisciplinary student teams with faculty mentors
Spearheaded by RIT’s Division of Academic Affairs and Professor Joe Geigel, the rigorous program engages undergraduate and graduate students in long-term, large-scale, multidisciplinary projects led by faculty researchers.
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January 15, 2025
Collaboration and creativity: Student duo shines in design competition
Aiden Spicer and Jaydon Thompson, second-year industrial design students, leaned on one another while designing their own dinner tabletop pieces for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Collab Student Design Competition.
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January 14, 2025
RIT professor leads research showing true structure of the iconic Ring Nebula
Scientists now have obtained the clearest three-dimensional view of the nebula, thanks to a research team led by Carlson Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Joel Kastner.
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January 14, 2025
TikTok ban looms, leaving creators uncertain about future
WHAM-TV talks with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the ban.
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January 14, 2025
Lessons learned: RIT Venture Creations company Sweet Pea uses incubator experience to pivot business toward profit
Sweet Pea Plant-Based Kitchen provides plant-based meals made with high-quality, locally sourced ingredients.
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January 14, 2025
New RIT student-designed bookmobile drives library access
RPL GO!, a van retrofitted with library materials and offerings, will visit local neighborhoods in service of individuals unable to access physical library branches.
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January 14, 2025
Ph.D. programs point the way forward
RIT has 13 Ph.D. programs currently enrolling 492 students. Munson’s time at RIT has seen the addition of seven Ph.D. programs, including cognitive science and physics this past fall.
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January 14, 2025
Performance teams thrive in the trenches
Technical skills learned as part of performance teams, working with peers, and overcoming setbacks all become assets for co-ops and eventually careers.
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January 14, 2025
New research building comes online in 2025
Research awards as well as national funding sources for economic development have increased to record levels at RIT, prompting the need for more research laboratory space on campus.
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January 14, 2025
Research opportunities give undergraduates an advantage
Getting hands-on experience in a state-of-the-art lab is something most students think will happen during graduate school. Not at RIT.
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January 14, 2025
Upgrades modernize business education
The college completed more than $25 million of upgrades and renovations to Max Lowenthal Hall. Designed by LaBella Associates, the space nearly doubled the size of RIT’s business college, adding more than 35,000 square feet.
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January 14, 2025
SHED showcases technology, the arts, and design
The SHED complex covers 209,000 gross-square feet of combined new construction and an extensive renovation of Wallace Library. The $120 million complex represents RIT’s biggest capital project since the campus moved to Henrietta, N.Y., from downtown Rochester in 1968.