News by Topic: Creativity And Innovation

Breaking barriers is a specialty at RIT. Our students, staff, and faculty are always at the forefront, developing innovative technical solutions to today’s problems.

  • April 25, 2017

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    RIT hosts Global Learning Symposium on Thursday

    The third annual Global Learning Symposium will include exhibits from students showcasing their academic achievements while abroad and will recognize prestigious international fellowship and scholarship winners.

  • April 20, 2017

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    RIT’s Nasr honored for engineering distinction

    Nabil Z. Nasr, associate provost for academic affairs and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has been honored for a lifetime of engineering distinction and leadership by the Rochester Engineering Society.

  • April 17, 2017

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    RIT hosts Effective Access Technology Conference

    RIT’s Effective Access Technology Conference, set for Friday in the Gene Polisseni Center, showcases the work, research and development that has been carried out by students and faculty to enhance accessibility for individuals across a wide range of physical or cognitive challenges.

  • April 17, 2017

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    Students compete in national cyber defense contest

    RIT’s cyber defense team competed with the nation’s top cybersecurity colleges at the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held April 13-15. A team of RIT students also took third-place in the weekend’s Panoply event, a capture-the-flag-style network attack and defense competition.

  • April 13, 2017

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    RIT hosts Grammy-winning recording engineer

    Richard King, professor of music research at McGill University, will discuss how science influences the art of recording for the 2017 CAST Dean’s Lecture Series on April 19.

  • April 13, 2017

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    Entrepreneurs compete in business plan competition

    Thirty-five teams of student entrepreneurs will pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges at the fifth annual Finger Lakes Regional Semi-Finalist Presentation Round of the New York Business Plan Competition today at RIT.

  • April 12, 2017

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    RIT team heads to cyber defense championship

    A group of RIT students will take on teams from the country’s top cybersecurity colleges in the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, held April 13–15 in San Antonio.

  • April 11, 2017

    Jasmine Phan presses buttons on the OVI meteorology equipment, preparing to demonstrate how it works.

    RIT hosts Plastics Night today

    Current research in new plastic and polymer-based materials for applications such as photonics, construction and mechanical systems will be featured during Plastics Night at RIT.

  • April 11, 2017

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    RIT scientist measures brightness of the universe

    Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said RIT researcher Michael Zemcov in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.

  • March 31, 2017

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    IdeaLab teams proposed healthcare solutions

    Twenty-one RIT students from multiple disciplines participated in the spring IdeaLab@RIT, held March 25-26, and developed possible solutions to challenges provided to them by Rochester Regional Health patients and healthcare personnel.

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