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Saunders College of Business hosts the 11th annual Power Your Potential Women’s Conference on Friday. The conference theme this year is “Embracing Our Voice and Leading Boldly,” and will be led by Karen Magnuson, Saunders College Executive in Residence and former executive editor at Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle.

The people you meet at Saunders will help you get a leg up in the industry with real-world knowledge and business connections.

The Rochester Beacon features Brandon Hudson, a fourth-year applied arts and sciences student, and Richard DeMartino, the Albert J. Simone Endowed Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and director of the Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Getting internships wasn't always easy, but Reid Kamhi never gave up. He knew the importance of adding project experience to his resume. In this spotlight, he shares his story and offers tips to other RIT students looking for internship opportunities.

RIT will host a discussion featuring printing industry scientists who achieved a historic first: matching image quality and exceeding the consistency of traditional offset printing using a web-fed inkjet printer in production conditions. Print-technology researchers Henry Freedman, Peter Crean, Peter Dundas and Eric Zeise will visit campus Feb. 13.

Powered by a game engine, Animation students Maggie Dybas and Allison Larkin created "Tumble," which won an award over professional competition at the Infinity Festival.

RIT/NTID alumna Christine Sun Kim ’02 (applied arts and sciences) writes in The New York Times about her experience performing the National Anthem and “America the Beautiful” in American Sign Language before the Super Bowl.

Classic sci-fi; an interpretation of a Tony Award-winning musical; a story of faith and friendship; and New Yorkers struggling with drug abuse, AIDS and homosexuality are all part of a new collaborative season by the NTID Performing Arts program and the College of Liberal Arts.

Six members of the RIT Game Symphony Orchestra took top honors and a $1,000 prize in the third annual Dr. Munson’s Performing Arts Challenge on Friday.

Undergraduate students from packaging science, graphic design and industrial design worked over the semester to improve packaging and branding identity for Milwaukee Tools and its Shockwave power drill bits as part of the Packaging Systems class challenge.

A report from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf states that of the more than 10,000 sign-language interpreters that are registered nationally, a mere 13 percent identify as persons of color. Acknowledging this gap, a team at NTID has created a program that aims to equip interpreters of color to meet the demands of interpreting in a postsecondary environment, while boosting recruitment and retention efforts for interpreters of color.

CBSNews talks to Rachel Arday '14 (metals and jewelry design), a silversmith at Tiffany's and Co. who worked on the Vince Lombardi Trophy for this year's Super Bowl winner.