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The men's lacrosse team placed second in the nation after falling to Salisbury University in the NCAA Division III Championship game. RIT advanced to the NCAA Championship for the second time in program history having also reached it in 2013.

Company founded by RIT alumni makes Brazil's Top 100 startups list

UNA Smart, touted by developers as an innovative way to brew coffee and tea anywhere and anytime and created by five RIT alumni, was recently named to Brazil's Top 100 startups list by 100 Open Startups and Wenovate-Open Innovation Center. UNA Smart cracked the top 100 among the 2,800 startups considered and ranked fourth in its category, reportedly making it one of the best companies to invest in 2017. UNA Smart users fill the device with water, insert a biodegradable coffee pod and click a button either on the coffee maker or on the mobile app to begin brewing. The mobile app also allows users to set timers for their coffee brewing, track consumption and caffeine intake, and reorder UNA coffee pods automatically when the system identifies that they are running low on coffee. Users can also customize their coffee using different temperature curves to refine their brewing process for better extraction, strength and acidity, all using the mobile app. Read More >>

Teaming up helps capstone project take flight

A team of RIT students spent the year giving wings to an idea that could help archaeologists find artifacts on the ground or buried a few meters below the surface. Closer to the ground, aerial unmanned vehicles, or drones, equipped with multispectral sensors could provide richer, more detailed information than satellite imagery. "The point of the project is to make an imaging system that clips onto a drone to fly over an archeological site," said Leah Bartnik, project manager and a graduating senior in RIT's Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. Data processed after the flight can tell an archeologist where to excavate, she said. Read More >>

Art professor teaches students to draw on life's lessons

In his book, Talent is Overrated, Geoff Colvin contends that few people are truly great at what they do. Colvin contends that greatness is the result of practice honed over decades of perseverance rather than a product of DNA. Colvin's book is a virtual teaching manual for Clifford Wun, an associate professor in the School of Art, so much so that it has become required reading for his drawing and design students. "One of my former students asked me if I was teaching from the book, so I had to go out and get it," recalled Wun. "It's like (Colvin) was reading my mind as both a teacher and artist." Students describe Wun, who received this year's Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching for his work in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, as exceptionally demanding and mentally draining while also motivating, inspirational and transformational. Read More >>