Sustainability News

When it comes to identifying creative ways to mitigate food waste, researchers at RIT have been managing a full plate of innovative initiatives over the last decade.

Imagine RIT visitors interested in learning about electric and hybrid-electric bikes get to participate in an interactive exhibit and discussion on the growing travel mode inside the Golisano Institute for Sustainability on April 27.

WHAM-TV talks to Kate McArdle, community outreach coordinator for the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute.

WHEC-TV mentions Wegmans’ partnership with RIT’s Center for Sustainable Packaging.

CNET quotes Callie Babbitt, associate professor of sustainability.

WXXI reports on RIT’s waste awareness campaign.

Engineers for a Sustainable World and RIT Student Government are partnering on a Waste Awareness Campaign that involves displaying a day’s worth of trash collected from around the campus. One site will hold a pile of recycling, the other a pile of what goes to the landfill.

WROC-TV reports on student volunteer work from RIT's chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.

WHEC-TV reports on a new rainwater collection system constructed by the RIT chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.

Cleveland.com cites research by Matthew Hoffman, associate professor of applied and computational mathematics, and Eric Hittinger, associate professor of public policy. 

RIT honored researchers who served as principal investigators on active awards in fiscal year 2018 at an April 11 reception. Also recognized were the 20 recipients of Seed Funding Awards and 12 new inductees in RIT’s PI Millionaires. 

Point2Homes talks to Nana-Yaw Andoh, assistant professor in the Master of Architecture program, about the ways in which growing cities expand.