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To help bridge new technology with current health care practices, organizations are recognizing the need to hire more health informatics professionals than ever. In an effort to help more qualified people step into this field, RIT has revised its health informatics master’s degree program and partnered with Rochester Regional Health.

Students from majors across RIT fused historical knowledge, 3D printing and various pottery practices to create replicas of ancient Greek vessels.

Power has been restored to the buildings affected by the outage.

RIT Facilities Management Services (FMS) personnel and outside contractors continue to work on underground cable lines. Power will remain out for the following buildings until approximately 7 p.m. tonight, Nov. 5.

In order to resolve the recent power outage, RIT Facilities Management Services personnel and outside contractors plan to cut power today (Friday, Nov. 5) to several buildings.

The Rochester Beacon talks to David Munson, president of RIT, about the construction projects happening on campus.

Connecticut residents are heading to their local libraries for pro bono legal assistance through a new program called Lawyers in Libraries, founded by RIT alumnus Kyle LaBuff ’06 (psychology). 

The Vignelli Center for Design Studies' lecture featuring Toronto-based architect Reza Aliabadi was rebroadcast via media partner Design Milk. The event was also made possible with support from MAGIC Spell Studios.

Though he graduated with a computer science degree, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad ’06 spent much of his time at RIT in the College of Liberal Arts. He is a firm believer that inserting humanities and the liberal arts into science and technology curricula is imperative. Ahmad will return to RIT Nov. 4 as this fall’s Stan McKenzie Salon speaker for a virtual conversation with his former professor, Evan Selinger.

Abu Islam recently joined GIS’s research staff. He was previously the director of the advanced technology group at Xerox where he led development of next-generation printing technologies.

For the 11th consecutive year, RIT has been named one of the greenest universities by The Princeton Review.

The RIT FoodShare Center has continued to help the RIT community by offering free and nutritious food for RIT students, faculty, staff, or alumni in need. As of this week, the traditional grocery store model has resumed.