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Rochester-based business consultant and former Xerox executive Katherine O’Brien has been hired as the newest coach at RIT’s Venture Creations technology business incubator. Her expertise is in strategic and tactical planning, product design and commercialization, process improvement, business development, research and development, sales and marketing and project and program management.

Poets&Quants highlights Saunders College of Business's online MBA program.

The release event and exhibition for Draft, a publication annually executed by photography students, is set for April 3 at George Eastman Museum’s Peristyle Gallery. This year marks the 16th edition.

The diverse talents of RIT students take center stage Friday night at the third annual President Munson’s Performing Arts Challenge. The competition, sponsored by Rochester Regional Health, is free and open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. in Ingle Auditorium.

A highlight of Graphic Design student Alex Gerstner's internship with Genesee Brewing was designing the label for a popular limited-release beer that sold out in minutes.

Andrew Searns, a computer science BS/MS student, has received an Honorable Mention for the Computing Research Association's 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award, which recognizes top undergraduate research students across North America.

Print media graduate student Emily Shriver headed a project to assess how individuals recognize manipulated images used in news. She found that most people are skeptical about images seen in print or online news, but only half can tell which images actually are altered.

Elisabetta D'Amanda, principal lecturer of Italian in the College of Liberal Arts' Modern Languages and Cultures Department, had her 2008 film, "As Good As Bread," given an Award of Exceptional Merit in the Depth of Focus International Film Festival in January.

Ehsan Rashedi, assistant professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, received 17K in private and New York State Department of Economic Development (NYSDED) funds in collaboration with the University of Rochester to evaluate the ergonomic design of medical equipment.  

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Harshita Sood, assistant director of campus sustainability.

Plastic bags, straws and stirrers will be a thing of the past beginning Friday at RIT, as the university begins its “Ditch the Disposables” campaign to decrease plastic waste. The initiative comes with student support, and in advance of a state ban on plastic bags that begins March 1.

International deaf advocate Colin Allen now is a member of the faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y.