News by Topic: Sustainability

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. 

WROC-TV talks to Enid Cardinal, senior sustainability advisor to the president at RIT, about a proposed ban on plastic bags in New York state.

Some people see massive environmental issues as unsalvageable, but Kristen Denninger Snyder ’10 sees them as motivation to keep working toward environmental conservation. Later this year, she will open the Research and Innovation for the Serengeti Ecosystem (RISE​) in Tanzania and serve as the center’s head scientist.

Associate Professor Marcos Esterman and several RIT senior engineering students are on a mission to empower citizens of Cali, Colombia, through cutting-edge technology including solar-powered 3D printers and aquaponics.

Entrepreneur David Rodriguez ’92 (MBA) is doing his part to provide new clean energy solutions to the nearly 3.4 million residents of Puerto Rico who live in the constant presence of destructive tropical storms and hurricanes.