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Joseph Ressler, a third-year photojournalism student from Strasburg, PA., photographed the activity at Susan B. Anthony's gravesite at historic Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester on Election Day. Hundreds lined up to place stickers on her tombstone, to honor the activist who fought for women's right to vote.

RIT officially launches MAGIC Spell Studios

With a touch of virtual reality and a Hollywood-style movie trailer and poster, RIT launched the building that will house MAGIC Spell Studios. The program is a first-of-its-kind effort in higher education that will link RIT's internationally ranked academic programs with high-tech facilities needed to commercialize computer gaming, film and animation, and digital media projects. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Assembly Majority Leader Joseph D. Morelle joined university officials—including RIT President Bill Destler—Danny Wegman from The Wegman Family Charitable Foundation, and representatives from Dell and Cisco Systems Inc., at the ceremony held in RIT's Student Innovation Hall. Read More >>

Professor collaborates on new astronomical camera

RIT professor Michael Richmond is a visiting professor for the fall term at the University of Tokyo's Research Center for the Early Universe. He is teaching a graduate course called "A field guide to exoplanets" and collaborating with colleagues at the university. Richmond works with scientists at the center who are building a new type of astronomical camera for the 105-centimeter Kiso Schmidt Telescope at the Kiso Observatory in the mountains of central Japan. The Tomo-e Gozen project uses a large array of wide-field CMOS detectors, a type of solid-state detector recently applied to astronomy. Read More >>

Saunders College of Business unveils new learning environments

Saunders College of Business is unveiling two state-of-the-art collaborative learning environments that are unlike any other learning spaces at RIT. The REDCOM Active Learning Collaboratory provides an interactive learning experience with self-contained student pods for collaboration, supported by digital and traditional displays and video conferencing capability for distributed teamwork. The Business Analytics Lab is an 800-square-foot newly renovated space equipped with the latest in Bloomberg Financial Markets technology and other analytics software—complete with an S&P 100 Index stock market ticker and 16 work stations. Read More >>