"Arresting" Posters By NYIT Students Sweep Police Awards

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From left, first place winner in the NYPD sexual assault awareness poster contest Lucas Rossi, NYIT College of Arts and Sciences Dean Jim Simon, and second place winner Maguelone Dunoyer.

NYIT student, Lucas Rossi, studying on a one-year exchange program from Brazil, said he was honored his poster, chosen out of nearly 100 submissions, would be featured in a NYPD campaign to raise awareness of on-campus sexual assault. Fourteen colleges from all the boroughs except Staten Island submitted art. Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker and president of the New York City Police Foundation Susan Birnbaum presented the winning poster and the first two runners up at an event at police headquarters on November 9, 2015.