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Through the assistance of U.S. Congressman Randy Kuhl, RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability was awarded $5 million from the Office of Naval Research to develop new transportation technologies that will increase energy efficiency and reduce the costs of military vehicles.

Bill Hampel, chief economist at Credit Union National Association in Washington, D.C., was one of several guest speakers at Filene Research Institute’s Consumer Financial Services Colloquium, sponsored by RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business, Nov. 21. The daylong event was hosted by Credit Card Nation author Robert Manning, Saunders’ research professor and director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services.

Kevin Kemp, director of external research programs for Freescale Semiconductor, opened the third annual Freescale Symposium Nov. 19. The event, hosted by RIT’s Department of Computer Engineering, was attended by participants from across the United States and Canada for workshops on micro-controller architecture, wireless sensor development and embedded systems design.

Javier Rodriguez-Borlado, a graduate student in RIT’s School of Print Media, presented “An Examination of Newspaper Business and Workflow Models for U.S. Newspapers” on Nov. 18. This was part of the seventh annual Printing Industry Center Symposium and Planning Meeting. Industry partners, RIT faculty and staff and other participants discussed the research conducted at the center over the past year to plan for the coming year.

RIT administrators offered some “basic training” for nearly 40 of the university’s newer principal investigators at the annual Grant Writers’ Boot Camp on Nov. 17-18. The event provided insights on the fundamentals of securing research funding. Jeremy Haefner, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs (shown here); Lynn Wild, assistant provost for faculty success; and Donald Boyd, vice president for research, led off the event by discussing the vision and direction of RIT’s research initiatives.

Researchers from RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability test equipment they have developed as part of a partnership with the U.S. military and Lockheed Martin Corp. The project has already transfered vehicle health monitoring technology developed at the institute for use in more than 12,000 military vehicles.

Alan Singer, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, has a new exhibit of prints and paintings in the Arts & Cultural Council Gallery, 277 N. Goodman St. The opening reception is 5-8 p.m. Nov. 14.

Popcorn packaging design created by Michael Rodriguez was the top vote-getter among moviegoers Nov. 7 at the Little Theatre. Rodriguez was among the graphic design and industrial design students whose creations were on display and competing for votes to win the prize of a student membership to the Little Theatre. Graphic design majors Laura Woodruff and Casey Moosman took second and third place, respectively. The project was for the Packaging Design course co-taught by Lorrie Frear, graphic design professor, and David Morgan, industrial design professor.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently awarded RIT $2.8 million to design, develop and build a zero-noise detector for the future Thirty Meter Telescope. RIT scientist Donald Figer is leading a team of scientists from RIT and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory to create an imaging detector unlike any available today.

A blueprint for what citizens can do to directly address global warming was the focus of a presentation by author and activist Bill McKibben Nov. 6 at RIT. The talk, “Uniting Global and Local,” included a discussion of global warming, current climate change policy and what can be done to address problems related to pollution, climate change and fossil-fuel use. The event was sponsored by RIT’s Caroline Werner Gannett Project.

Lynn Fuller, RIT professor of microelectronic engineering, led a tour of the facilities to three dignitaries from Dubai on Oct. 30. The dignitaries from Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority are, from left to right: Jihad Kiwan, chief technology officer; Mohammed Al Zarouni, chief executive officer; and Shahla Ahmed Abdul Razak, deputy CEO. In August 2008, RIT opened a Dubai campus offering high technology-based programs in engineering, business and information technology.

RIT senior graphic design and industrial design students came up with innovative and creative packages for popcorn at the movies! Some of the package designs will be on display from 5 to 7 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the lobby of the Little Theatre. Film watchers are invited to vote for their favorite. The student who gets the most votes wins a student membership to the Little Theatre.