News by Topic: Staff
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December 5, 2022
Linda Tolan, longtime faculty, staff, and administrative leader, retires
Linda Tolan built an influential career as a faculty member, academic and workforce consultant, and college administrator during her 42 years at RIT. She retired Dec. 1.
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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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November 22, 2022
RIT astrophysicists leverage cancer center to damage single-photon CMOS detectors for future space missions
A recent trip to a cancer center in Boston helped astrophysicists from RIT's Center for Detectors reach a key milestone in their mission to develop advanced CMOS image sensors for future NASA space missions.
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November 21, 2022
RIT 365 provides new experiences for first-year students
Students entering their first year of college face many unknowns. But a unique program at RIT helps new students learn more about college life, their peers, and themselves.
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November 16, 2022
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute pentesters assess messaging app for activists
RIT cybersecurity experts are helping make instant messaging safer for activists in countries controlled by restrictive regimes. Pentesters from RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute performed a security assessment of Partisan Telegram, a customized version of the Telegram messaging app. RIT was selected to conduct the assessment by a nonprofit organization that supports global internet freedom.
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November 15, 2022
RIT ranked among the greenest schools in the U.S. by the Princeton Review
WROC-TV talks to Neha Sood, assistant director of campus sustainability, about RIT's latest greenest schools ranking.
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November 9, 2022
RIT receives trio of TRIO grants to support underrepresented students over the next five years
RIT received funding from the U.S. Department of Education to continue offering three federal TRIO programs for supporting underrepresented students. RIT earned competitive grants anticipated to total more than $4 million over the next five years to support its McNair Scholars, Upward Bound, and Veterans Upward Bound programs.
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November 2, 2022
RIT ranks among top ‘green’ colleges by Princeton Review
For the 12th consecutive year, RIT has been named one of the “greenest” universities in the United States by The Princeton Review. The rankings are featured in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2023 Edition.
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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 26, 2022
ROAR for RIT on Oct. 27-28
Beginning at noon on Oct. 27, the RIT community has 24 hours to ROAR their Tiger pride.
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October 24, 2022
The SHED construction makes progress, surmounts challenges
The Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) will look like nothing else on the RIT campus when construction ends next year.
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October 20, 2022
City Art Space celebrates new exhibition, ‘Elemental,’ with two events on Nov. 2 and 3
RIT’s City Art Space is celebrating the opening of a new exhibition, “Elemental,” by hosting two events on Wednesday, Nov. 2, and Thursday, Nov. 3. The exhibition is a rare showing of films by the late pioneering artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), whose work spanned photography, film, video, sculpture, performative action, earth-body works, and more.