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March 6, 2024
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Maple Sugaring Society Photo Gallery
RIT students learn about tapping trees and gathering sap during the class Maple Syrup and our Environment. Instructors hope students connect with nature.
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March 4, 2024
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Loyal to RIT, Wilkie intent on leading Tigers to playoff redemption
Pickin' Splinters talks to biomedical sciences student Carter Wilkie about his hockey success.
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March 1, 2024
![Clayton Turner is shown wearing glasses and sitting in his office that looks out over NASA Langley Research Center. He is wearing a gray suit and a blue and white plaid tie.]()
Langley Celebrates Black History Month: Clayton Turner
NASA features Clayton Turner '90 (electrical engineering) in a talk about his career.
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February 29, 2024
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Engineering Professor Co-Authors New Book on Resilience Engineering
Engineering professor, Andres Kwasinski co-authors new book, “Resilience Engineering for Power and Communications Systems: Networked Infrastructure in Extreme Events” published by Cambridge University Press.
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February 29, 2024
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Amanda Goodhines on LGBTQIA role models and self-discovery
Diva Magazine speaks to Amanda Goodhines ’20 (biomedical engineering) about her journey.
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February 27, 2024
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RIT students create innovative prototype for blood pressure cuffs
Knowing that many doctors question the accuracy of automatic blood pressure cuffs led Aidan Hughes to pitch his idea to make a more accurate prototype.
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February 21, 2024
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Baleen whales evolved a unique larynx to communicate but cannot escape human noise
Scienmag talks to Qian Xue and Xudong Zheng, associate professors, and Weili Jiang, postdoctoral research associate, all in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, about their research.
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February 21, 2024
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RIT undergraduate student team qualifies for First Nations High Power Rocket Launch
For the first time, RIT will be represented at the First Nations High Power Rocket Launch design competition. Six Native American scholars have committed to building a high-powered rocket for the challenge.
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February 20, 2024
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U.S. Navy to equip game-changing underwater sensor system that mimics biology to detect and track anomalies
The Debrief features Xudong Zheng, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, about how his team's research on an innovative sensor array could be used by the Navy during stealth operations at sea.
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February 19, 2024
![engineering faculty researchers Dongfang Liu, Xudong Zheng, and Qian Xue display the seal whisker specimen they are modeling their advanced sensor array on for improving underwater detection and recognition]()
Researcher receives Naval Research Laboratory grant to develop more sophisticated sensor array
Researchers at RIT are creating a novel sensor system based on the superior design and detection range found on harbor seal whiskers.
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February 19, 2024
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Computer engineering faculty member joins national initiative on neuromorphic computing
Cory Merkel, assistant professor of computer engineering at RIT, will represent the university as one of five collegiate partners in the new Center of Neuromorphic Computing under Extreme Environments, also referred to as CONCRETE.
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February 9, 2024
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Team’s research method becomes industry model
Work by Risa Robinson and members of the Respiratory Technologies Laboratory completely shifted how e-cigarette analysis is done and became an industry model. Through this new viewpoint, the team recorded harmful emissions that were not otherwise seen in a lab setting, and this data contributed to FDA policies and regulations about e-cigarette usage today.
