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News, Events, Resources, and more.

October 13, 2023
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Photo taken by Raunaq Bedi, MS candidate in Computer Engineering. "🍁🌈" from his recent trip to the Tupper Lake in Adirondacks. Follow on Instagram @theinanimatecreation

  
 
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ARTrepreneur: Workshop for Creatives

When: Saturday, October 14, 2023, 3:00 pm
Where: Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) - Room 4300

The ARTrepreneur workshop was developed with the needs of the creative entrepreneur in mind.
Leigh Rubin is an accomplished cartoonist and author. He has written more than 20 books. 2023 marks the 39th anniversary of Leigh's internationally syndicated cartoon, Rubes®, which is now distributed by Creators Syndicate to hundreds of newspapers and media outlets worldwide.
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Strategies for Critical Reading & Writing for Academic Texts Workshop

When: Thursday, October 19th, 3:00 pm
Where: Sustainability Auditorium | SUS 81-1130

This presentation offers resources and strategies to help you to critically and efficiently read academic texts, approaches for identifying themes and incorporating your sources, citation management tools to aid in your writing, and how to get started connecting academic dialogues with your research through your writing.
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CHAI Advanced Ph.D. Student Talk: Md Yousuf Harun, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, RIT

When: Monday, October 23, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: Golisano Hall, GOL CYB-1710/1720

Most deep neural networks are trained once and then evaluated. In contrast, continual or lifelong machine learning mimics how humans continually learn new knowledge throughout their lifespan. Most continual learning research has focused on mitigating a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting, in which neural networks forget past information. Despite making remarkable progress toward alleviating catastrophic forgetting, existing algorithms remain compute- intensive and ill-suited for many resource-constrained real-world applications such as edge devices, mobile phones, robots, AR/VR and virtual assistants. For continual learning to make a real-world impact, continual learning systems need to rival traditional offline learning systems retrained from scratch when new data arrives.
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Overcoming Grad School Challenges

When: Tuesday, October 24th, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Where: Online

Join the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Regions 4, 5 & 7 for an engaging discussion on overcoming grad school challenges. Dive deep into personal experiences, share challenges, and collaboratively work on solutions. This dialogue is open to everyone who has faced or is curious about the hurdles of graduate school. Our SHPE familia will provide a safe space for all attendees. Register for the event using the QR code in the flyer or through our registration link below.
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Agricultural data-tracking system helps farmers maximize output

Fifth-generation apple farmer Jamie Sonneville understands the stresses that come with predicting revenue in the agriculture industry. Variables such as crop yields, weather, and costs associated with production and labor all equal unpredictable outcomes. That’s why Sonneville built an intuitive labor management software tool that, in her words, “allows farmers to do what they do best—be farmers.”

Read full story by Vienna McGrain >
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Former Disney executive named RIT’s assistant provost for LA Programs

Tom Connor, former vice president of creative marketing at Walt Disney Co., has been appointed assistant provost at Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition to his administrative duties, Connor, an alumnus of RIT’s School of Film and Animation, has also been named the Paul and Francena Miller Chair in International Education and will serve as a professor of practice in RIT’s College of Art and Design. The professor of practice role is a non-tenure track rank that identifies individuals who bring prominence in their fields to the classroom.

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Second annual Together RIT to focus on gender and sexuality

The second annual Together RIT: A Day of Dialogue is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, with this year’s programming centered on gender and sexuality. Registration is now open.

Together RIT gathers the campus community and creates space to ask questions, empathize, build solidarity, and give recognition to the following current and future social issues: coexistence of multiple genders, the role of violence in men’s lives, trans access in athletics, gender bias in the classroom, and policies that curb some marginalized sexualities’ ability to love who they want. The event is also a time to highlight the positive contributions, joy, and pride that all genders experience or can offer to our campus.

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Graduate Study Abroad Survey

RIT Global is looking for ways to support graduate students to go overseas, but in order to do that, we need to hear from you! Please take the survey to share your thoughts on programing and what you would like to see in future opportunities:

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YouTube Video of Professor Josh Owen

Professor Josh Owen joins us to talk about his work, experience, background, and passion for design. Josh Owen is the Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design and the Director of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at RIT. Prior to his current role, Owen was Director of the Industrial Design Department in which he continues to teach his popular course known as the Metaproject.