News by Topic: Partnerships
Cooperation brings out the best in us, and that’s no different at the university level. RIT is proud to partner with multiple companies and fellow universities to find novel breakthroughs in technology and create exciting new experiences for students.
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December 9, 2022
RIT and MCC host machinist workshop
WHAM-TV talks to Rui Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, about machinist opportunities in the Rochester area.
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December 7, 2022
Plug Power Inc. establishes graduate scholarship at RIT
Plug Power Inc., a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, is partnering with RIT to provide scholarship support to a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in engineering, sustainability, and the sciences. The first Plug Graduate Scholarship was awarded this year to Mamta Choudhary, an industrial and systems engineering MS student from India.
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December 7, 2022
Looking at emergency communication gaps for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities
WROC-TV talks to Brian Tomaszewski, professor of geographic information systems, and James Fugate, assistant professor in NTID’s Department of Engineering Studies, about their research on improving emergency communications.
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December 5, 2022
RIT readies campus master plan that will guide future growth and development
A comprehensive master planning process for the RIT campus that began in 2020 has resulted in a long-term, conceptual layout that will guide future growth and development across the university’s 1,300 acres over the next 25 to 50 years. The steering committee is now inviting final comments to the campus master plan during a review period that runs through Dec. 23, 2022.
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December 3, 2022
RIT students work with local students at community arts event
WHEC-TV features a community art event hosted by students in RIT's visual arts–all grades (art education) master's program.
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November 18, 2022
Chips 101 showcases RIT and Upstate NY skills in computer chip development and manufacturing
Becoming the Silicon Valley of the Northeast may have as much power as the computer chips that will soon be designed and developed in the upstate New York region. The recent Chips 101 event, hosted by RIT on Nov. 16, kept to that premise. More than 50 regional government and corporate representatives learned how computer chips are designed and manufactured—and how universities, government, and workforce development initiatives will contribute to this area.
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November 15, 2022
Holiday collection begins for Toys For Tots
The RIT Student Veterans Club is partnering with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program to collect donated, new, unwrapped toys that will be shared with area children who are less fortunate during the holiday season.
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November 11, 2022
RIT’s Nabil Nasr attends COP27 in Egypt
Nabil Nasr, associate provost and director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, joined delegates from around the world—including more than 100 heads of state—in Egypt this week for COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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November 8, 2022
Nonprofit environmental group gets $200,000 for education initiative with RIT
WROC-TV features the Tait Preserve of RIT.
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November 2, 2022
Marie Golisano Graham Fund supports outreach efforts for Golisano Collection housed in RIT Archives
A gift from the Marie Golisano Graham Fund is supporting new ways for RIT to engage the public with the life and legacy of her brother, B. Thomas Golisano—Paychex founder, philanthropist, and civic leader.
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October 28, 2022
RIT and its Air Force ROTC detachment receive prestigious partnership award
RIT and its Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 538 were presented the 2021 Department of Defense ROTC and Higher Educational Institution Partnership Excellence Award this morning. The award recognizes the detachment’s success as well as RIT’s contribution to the program.
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October 18, 2022
Digital therapy treatments give RIT researchers tools to reach rural communities in N.Y. and N.H.
RIT behavioral health researchers are providing remote mental health care and addiction therapy to rural communities in New York and New Hampshire and training for therapists to deploy the digital treatments at their clinics.