Today’s Top Stories
Successful first flight for RIT SPEX group
Sunday morning, the RIT Space Exploration group launched a high-altitude weather balloon that soared higher than 99,000 feet before bursting and landing somewhere in Maine.
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RIT professor helps preserve languages of Amazonia
Wilson de Lima Silva, assistant professor of linguistics, has received a three-year $160,591 grant to help preserve Siriano and Desano, languages of the Tukanoan family.
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Sunday morning, the RIT Space Exploration group launched a high-altitude weather balloon that soared higher than 99,000 feet before bursting and landing somewhere in Maine.
read more » | watch video »
RIT professor helps preserve languages of Amazonia
Wilson de Lima Silva, assistant professor of linguistics, has received a three-year $160,591 grant to help preserve Siriano and Desano, languages of the Tukanoan family.
read more »
Newsmakers
James Winebrake, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, co-wrote an article published in the December 2015 edition of Energy Policy entitled Natural gas as a marine fuel. more Newsmakers »
RIT in the News
Printing Impressions
RIT Places Third Among Top Schools in National Packaging Design Competition
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Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester Downtown Innovation Zone getting new website
RIT Center for Urban Entrepreneurship featured more »
The Sun Journal
RIT students looking for balloon that landed in Maine
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The Washington Post
Machines evolve to help, but not replace, humans
Ray Ptucha, director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory and assistant professor of computer engineering, quoted more »
RIT Places Third Among Top Schools in National Packaging Design Competition
more »
Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester Downtown Innovation Zone getting new website
RIT Center for Urban Entrepreneurship featured more »
The Sun Journal
RIT students looking for balloon that landed in Maine
more »
The Washington Post
Machines evolve to help, but not replace, humans
Ray Ptucha, director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory and assistant professor of computer engineering, quoted more »
Today’s Weather
Upcoming Events
What Matters to Me, and Why: A conversation with Kaitie Spaude, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Oct. 29, Campus Center Reading Room
Projections, Improvisation and Bach: Cello performance accompanied by improvised projected graphics, 7 p.m. Oct. 29, Student Innovation Center
Presentation: “A 360-Degree Visual Portrait of a Designer’s Process,” Andreas Wezel-Peterson, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Oct. 29, Xerox Auditorium
Thursday Night Cinema: Zombieland, 9 p.m. Oct. 29, Ingle Auditorium
Halloween haunted house: Snacks and games provided, costumes are encouraged, noon-3 p.m. Oct. 30, SAU 1829 room
Pink-O-Ween: Fall/Halloween-themed games and food trucks, all proceeds go to Breast Cancer Education and Awareness, noon-3 p.m. Oct. 31, Greek Lawn
Halloween Blowout: Come celebrate Halloween with a Murder Mystery Theater, a tarot reader, a glow-in-the-dark dance party, and more! 7-10 p.m. Oct. 31, SAU and Campus Center
Projections, Improvisation and Bach: Cello performance accompanied by improvised projected graphics, 7 p.m. Oct. 29, Student Innovation Center
Presentation: “A 360-Degree Visual Portrait of a Designer’s Process,” Andreas Wezel-Peterson, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Oct. 29, Xerox Auditorium
Thursday Night Cinema: Zombieland, 9 p.m. Oct. 29, Ingle Auditorium
Halloween haunted house: Snacks and games provided, costumes are encouraged, noon-3 p.m. Oct. 30, SAU 1829 room
Pink-O-Ween: Fall/Halloween-themed games and food trucks, all proceeds go to Breast Cancer Education and Awareness, noon-3 p.m. Oct. 31, Greek Lawn
Halloween Blowout: Come celebrate Halloween with a Murder Mystery Theater, a tarot reader, a glow-in-the-dark dance party, and more! 7-10 p.m. Oct. 31, SAU and Campus Center
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