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August 31, 2022
Best Accredited Colleges: Best Bachelor Degrees in Cybersecurity
RIT’s bachelor’s degree in computing security ranks No. 16 by Best Accredited Colleges.
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August 30, 2022
Therapeutic benefits of fly fishing is focus of RIT Press book
The restorative properties of fly fishing and its ability to ease suffering in people recovering from trauma, addiction, and disease are explored in a new book by lifelong fly fisherman Patrick Scanlon.
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August 26, 2022
Webb telescope is already challenging what astronomers thought they knew
The Washington Post talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, about the influx of data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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August 23, 2022
RIT named among the nation’s ‘Best 388 Colleges’
RIT remains one of the nation’s best universities for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education-services company features RIT in the just-published 2023 edition of its book The Best 388 Colleges.
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August 16, 2022
Open@RIT receives Sloan Foundation grant to continue supporting open work
RIT’s open programs office has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to build external partnerships and continue supporting those doing work in the open community.
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August 8, 2022
RIT professor earns NSF CAREER Award to investigate empathy in computing education
A team of faculty and student researchers at RIT are helping create a more accessibility-literate and empathetic software engineering workforce. The researchers, led by Daniel Krutz, assistant professor of software engineering, are developing free online lessons on how to create software that is accessible for those with visual, cognitive, hearing, dexterity, and other disabilities.
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August 8, 2022
RIT Certified and Foundry collaborate on cryptocurrency course
Underserved students from the city of Rochester with a strong interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology recently participated in an immersive, weeklong course at RIT to learn the latest about digital currency through its RIT Certified initiative.
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August 7, 2022
Looking back on some of the universe’s oldest galaxies with James Webb
Digital Trends discusses early data from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS), a project RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe is co-investigator for.
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August 4, 2022
Monkeypox vaccines: A virologist answers 6 questions about how they work, who can get them and how well they prevent infection
The Conversation asks Maureen Ferran, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about the two vaccines that can protect against monkeypox.
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August 4, 2022
China has a new global development initiative, but who will actually benefit from it?
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Conversation.
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August 1, 2022
Invasive Zebra Mussels Are Expanding Westward
WORT-FM talks to Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, about her research on aquatic invasive species.
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August 1, 2022
GIS and Dow partner to learn why inventory discrepancies happen
A new research collaboration between RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) and the Dow Chemical Company (Dow) looks to reduce how often costly inventory inconsistencies occur.