Rochester Institute of Technology is being sued in federal court for allegedly publishing a book of copyrighted material without permission. RIT Press, the scholarly publishing arm of the school, in 2015 published The Millennial Critic: Stanley Kauffmann on Film: 1999 ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology has chosen David Munson Jr. to be its next president. Munson is a former dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering. He will take over at the private college on July 1 following the ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology will receive federal funding to continue a social media campaign to counter terrorist propaganda. Members of the state’s congressional delegation say RIT will receive $149,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to continue work on ...

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Richard L. Kauffman, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s chairman of energy and finance and chairman of NYSERDA, is scheduled to give the keynote presentation at the Center for Environmental Initiatives’ annual Community Salute to the Environment program. The event, which runs from ...

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Strong Arm Technologies Inc., made up of students from the Rochester Institute of Technology, beat out more than 120 teams from more than 25 colleges and universities across the state to capture the grand prize in the third annual New ...

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Joseph Martens, Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner, and Anahita Williamson, New York State Pollution Prevention Institute’s (NYSP2I) director, announced that two new programs have been added to the NYSP2I at Rochester Institute of Technology to help businesses market and develop ...

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As participants in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in San Antonio last weekend, a group of Rochester Institute of Technology students found out what it’s like to be a network or security administrator in control of a company’s information ...

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Mistakes do happen, but the majority of police and prosecutors do good work, according to Judge Eugene F. Pigott Jr., an associate judge on the state Court of Appeals. He was the final speaker Friday in a daylong conference on ...

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The only person who benefits when someone is wrongfully convicted of a crime is the real perpetrator. Now that the Innocence Project has helped exonerate wrongfully convicted people, Peter Neufeld, its co-founder and co-director, said it is also working to ...

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The Rochester Institute of Technology has received a $3 million gift to establish an endowed chair in its business school. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports that the Eugene Fram Endowed Chair in Critical Thinking will be created in RIT’s ...

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The necessity of having a trained sustainability or green initiative officer in business today can’t be overlooked. Dr. Thomas Smith, interim academic director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at RIT, explained that sustainability jobs are growing for good reason.

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Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders College of Business will be seeing a new face in the dean’s office next year; current Saunders head Ashok Rao will be stepping down at the end of the 2011-2012 school year.

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