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Student video game to be published on Steam
For the first time, Rochester Institute of Technology's MAGIC Spell Studios has published a student-developed game on Steam, the world's largest digital game distribution platform.
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2015 Feb 12
Students to Attend RIT
New students join Rochester Institute of Technology for the spring semester.
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2015 Feb 3
Architecture student honored
JD Harper received the American Institute of Architects New York State Student Award.
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2015 Jan 28
Student receives motion picture scholarship
Victoria K. McGowen received the Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship at the annual Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers.
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2014 Dec 17
Student receives scholarship from Public Relations Society of America
Jackie Bergin, a third-year advertising and public relations student, received the Charles S. Smith Scholarship from the Rochester chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.
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2014 Dec 17
Selene Chew wins overall Best Paper Award
Selene Chew, third-year computational mathematics major in the College of Science, won the overall Best Paper Award for "Normalized Cuts with Soft Must-Link Constraints for Image Segmentation and Clustering."
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2014 Nov 26
Jie Yang wins best paper award
Jie Yang, a Ph.D. student in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, won the Best Remote Sensing Paper for "A Combined Approach for Ice Sheet Elevation Extraction from Lidar Point Clouds"
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2014 Nov 26
Students enrolled at NTID
Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf is the nation's first and largest technological college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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2014 Oct 6
Kyle Crompton wins coveted SMART Scholarship from Department of Defense
Kyle Crompton, a doctoral student at RIT, was recently awarded a prestigious SMART scholarship from the U.S. Department of Defense. Upon graduation, these scholars are hired as research staff at defense laboratories around the country to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers in this capacity.
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2014 Oct 24
Students join RIT sports teams
Announcing the 2014-2015 fall sports rosters for men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's tennis, women's volleyball and men's and women's hockey.
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2014 Oct 2
Local Students Attend National Career Exploration Camp
Area high school students are back home after participating in a national career exploration camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 Aug 15
Students to Attend RIT
New students enroll at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 Aug 11
Selene Chew presents scientific research in Switzerland
Selene Chew presented her scientific research at the IEEE conference, Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, or WHISPERS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 24-27.
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2014 Jul 23
Students receive Nathaniel Rochester Society Scholarship at RIT
The NRS Scholarship program is made possible by the Nathaniel Rochester Society, RIT's leadership-level donors. This unique merit scholarship was created in 1991 to recognize RIT undergraduate students for outstanding achievement.
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2014 Aug 5
Students accepted into Honors Program
Designed around three basic ideals of Leadership, Scholarship and Citizenship, the Honors Program is for students who seek to challenge themselves in exemplary learning experiences.
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2014 Aug 4
Students graduate from RIT
The following local residents graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 Jul 21
South Burlington resident presents scientific paper in Switzerland
South Burlington, Vt., resident Amanda Ziemann presented her scientific research at the IEEE conference, Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, or WHISPERS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 24-27.
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2014 Jul 17
RIT/NTID Team wins NAD College Bowl
For the second consecutive time, a team from RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf won the National Association of the Deaf College Bowl Championship for deaf and hard-of-hearing college students.
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2014 Jul 9
Students to Attend RIT
Local residents have enrolled at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 Jul 3
Ashley Carrington elected president of RIT Student Government
Ashley Carrington of Stony Point, N.Y., has been elected Student Government President at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 Jun 24
RIT/NTID Team wins NAD College Bowl
For the second consecutive time, a team from RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf won the National Association of the Deaf College Bowl Championship for deaf and hard-of-hearing college students.
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2014 Jul 9
Area Students Make the Dean's List at RIT
The following local residents made the Dean's List for spring 2013-2014 semester at Rochester Institute of Technology:
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2014 Jun 20
Students to Attend RIT
Local residents have enrolled at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 Jun 17
Students to Attend RIT
Local residents have enrolled at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 Jun 17
Students Inducted into RIT's Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society
Several students have been inducted into Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 Jun 6
NTID students graduate with accolades and bright futures
Several students at Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf were honored with their families and friends at an Academic Awards Luncheon prior to their graduation ceremony.
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2014 May 27
Students Named 2014 Legacy Leaders at RIT
The Legacy Leadership awards, presented by the Center for Women and Gender and the RIT Leadership Institute and Community Service Center, are given to graduating female seniors or graduate students who have significantly contributed to the RIT community during their academic careers.
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2014 May 27
Imaging science student promotes photonics funding on congressional visit
Ph.D. student Amanda Ziemann participated in the National Photonics Initiative Congressional Visits Day to promote government funding for photonics-driven technology.
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2014 May 19
Engineering students build and install camera rig for Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
Seven students from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering installed a Vertical X-Y Camera Rig they designed and built for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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2014 May 19
Students to Attend RIT
Local residents have enrolled at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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2014 May 15