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RIT Data Warehouse Project Awarded<i> Computerworld</i> Magazine’s Laureate Medal
RIT News Releases - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 08:00
Data and information are the basis for management decisions; having access to well-organized data in a timely manner is often a business challenge. For its development of an advanced academic reporting system to manage institutional data, Rochester Institute of Technology was recognized as a 2010 Computerworld Honors Laureate. The RIT Data...
Gallery r Goes Solo with Bob Cole Retrospective
RIT News Releases - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 08:00
Gallery r, Rochester Institute of Technology’s Metro Showcase and Learning Laboratory for the Arts, goes solo this summer with an exhibition highlighting the career of artist Bob Cole, who is an RIT professor in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. The work on display—which dates from 1971 to 2010—comes from...
Annual Virginia Tax Holiday Applies to School Supplies, Clothing Purchases
FCPS News Releases - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 15:25
Families in Virginia will get a sales tax break on clothes and supplies for school when the state holds its annual Virginia tax holiday, August 6-8.
RIT Appoints Secretary of the Institute
RIT News Releases - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 07:00
Karen Barrows, chief of staff to Rochester Institute of Technology President Bill Destler, has been named secretary of the institute, Destler announced recently. A Henrietta resident, Barrows began at RIT as a word processing clerk at the National Institute for the Deaf in 1989, before accepting positions with the NITD Strategic Planning...
Webinar Highlights Transportation’s Role in America’s Energy Future
RIT News Releases - Tue, 07/27/2010 - 12:00
The increasing role of energy production and use in economic, national security and environmental policy will be the topic of the upcoming webinar and panel discussion America’s Energy Future: A Transportation Perspective. The event, hosted by Rochester Institute of Technology and the U.S. Transportation Research Board, will be held from 1:45...
Coaches Clinic, Featuring Joe Ehrmann, Scheduled for July 31 at Robinson Secondary
FCPS News Releases - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 13:56
Noted author, speaker, and former Baltimore Colts football player Joe Ehrmann will be the featured speaker at Coach for America: Coaching for Change, a seminar for coaches of youth sports at all levels, on Saturday, July 31, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Robinson Secondary School.
TJHSST Student Attends Summer Aerospace Academy at NASA Langley
FCPS News Releases - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 11:44
Richie Hernandez of Lorton, a rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), was one of 48 students in Virginia selected to attend the Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars (VASTS) Academy held recently at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton.
Period Speech
XKCD - Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:00
UPDATE: All Fairfax County High Schools Make Newsweek's List of Top High Schools in U.S.
FCPS News Releases - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 13:17
All eligible Fairfax County high schools* have been designated among the most demanding public schools in the country and are featured in the 2010 Newsweek-Washington Post list of 1,734 top U.S. high schools, found at www.newsweek.com. The 1,734 schools represent the top six percent of high schools nationwide.
All the Girls
XKCD - Thu, 07/22/2010 - 23:00
Free Health Physicals Available to FCPS Students Who Meet Financial Requirements
FCPS News Releases - Thu, 07/22/2010 - 12:43
Free school and sports physicals will be available to Fairfax County students who meet specific financial requirements at the Jeanie Schmidt Free Clinic in Herndon on Saturday, August 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Detector Technology Could Help NASA Find Earth-like Exoplanets
RIT News Releases - Thu, 07/22/2010 - 09:00
The hunt is on for Earth-like planets outside of our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have detected more than 450 extrasolar planets—mostly large Jupiter-sized bodies—around nearby stars. Advances in technology are fueling the quest to find smaller, rocky planets resembling Earth and, possibly, evidence of life. Rochester Institute of Technology scientist...
Chantilly High Teacher Attends Coastal Ecology Workshop During Summer Vacation
FCPS News Releases - Wed, 07/21/2010 - 12:36
Chantilly High School teacher Susan Gerbasi has spent part of her summer vacation at a coastal ecology workshop on Georgia's Sapelo Island as part of the teacher training series sponsored by the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Jan-Marie Fernandez Named VAESP 2010 Distinguished Principal
FCPS News Releases - Wed, 07/21/2010 - 12:28
Jan-Marie Fernandez, principal of Mantua Elementary School since 2000, has been named Virginia's 2010 Distinguished Principal by the Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals (VAESP) as part of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) National Distinguished Principal program.
"The Perils of the College Drinking Culture" Event Set for July 28
FCPS News Releases - Fri, 07/16/2010 - 12:53
Fairfax County college-bound students and their parents are encouraged to attend an upcoming program that deals with binge drinking on college campuses. .
Students Present Research at Second Annual Graduate Research Symposium July 21
RIT News Releases - Thu, 07/15/2010 - 16:00
More than 100 masters and Ph.D. students from Rochester Institute of Technology will participate in the second annual Graduate Research Symposium on Wednesday, July 21. Graduate students from all eight of RIT’s colleges will deliver presentations during morning and afternoon sessions in Louise M. Slaughter Hall on the RIT campus. The...