Environmental Studies and Sustainability News
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March 28, 2017
Robot pastime helped alumnus build career
Mike Jeffries is proud when Bombshell is on the attack, knowing there’s no “tapping out” or yielding in competitions. During this past season of ABC’s BattleBots show, taped over the summer, Bombshell and Jeffries’ Chaos Corps team battled to an impressive second place finish. -
March 28, 2017
Graduates construct Rochester Top 100 company
Justin Hamilton and Christopher Stern were standing on the basketball court sidelines in 1998 when they started talking about majors. That was the beginning of Hamilton Stern Construction, a company that was No. 1 on the Rochester Chamber Top 100 list of fastest growing private companies in 2016. -
November 16, 2016
Students recognized at packaging design competition
Three multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate students from RIT were recognized for their unique designs in the 2016 Paperboard Packaging Alliance Student Design Challenge. -
October 5, 2016
RIT gets $1M grant to develop food waste solutions
Callie Babbitt, an associate professor in RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has received a nearly $1 million award from the National Science Foundation to research sustainable solutions for minimizing and managing food waste generated across the food supply chain. -
April 25, 2016
Packaging students highlight how the brain ‘shops’
Students in the packaging science program will track where an individual’s eyes go when looking at an array of well-packaged goods as part of their Imagine RIT exhibit May 7. -
March 14, 2016
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December 22, 2015
Students create product packaging in competition
RIT students create new and sustainable product packaging as part of the 2015 Wegmans Design Challenge.
