The Rochester Institute of Technology’s Board of Trustees has named the university’s 10th president: David C. Munson Jr, currently the Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Munson is 64, and will take over when current President Bill Destler retires at the end of June. Dr. Munson grew up in Iowa, Ohio and […]
United States Senator Chuck Schumer has made what he calls his “final push” on behalf of the Rochester Institute of Technology as the site for a new Department of Energy research center. The DOE is establishing a Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute to push ways of cutting energy costs in manufacturing, reducing waste and replace […]
Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology studying the concentration of plastics in the Great Lakes estimate that some 10,000 metric tons of the stuff enters the lakes every year from the U.S. and Canada. The RIT School of Mathematical Sciences decided to track how those plastic items flow through the lakes and where […]