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Time magazine talks to Daniel Johnson, chair of the Department of Packaging Science, about the mechanics behind reuse programs.

Spectrum News features Eric Kunsman, lecturer in the Department of Visual Communications Studies and adjunct professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, and his project photographing payphones in the Rochester area.

Scientific American talks to Callie Babbitt, professor of sustainability, about the scale of the e-waste problem and how researchers want to solve it.

Essay by Maureen Ferran, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, published by The Conversation.

Registration is open for Mechanics’ Institutes Worldwide 2021, a free virtual conference on Oct. 15 honoring the 200th anniversary of the founding of the first Mechanics Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. RIT's Corinna Schlombs and Liz Call will virtually join experts from around the world as they share knowledge on the start of the Mechanics’ Institute movement in the 19th century and what the movement represents today.

Fox Rochester talks to Luane Davis Haggerty, principal lecturer in NTID's Department for Performing Arts, about the Into the Light performance by Dangerous Signs at the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival.

Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, principal lecturer in RIT’s Department of English, has taught Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel, Lolita, in her Dangerous Texts course for many years. As the #MeToo movement gained strength and global attention in 2018, however, the novel became particularly relevant.

Researchers at RIT are part of a new study that could help unlock the potential of superfluids—essentially frictionless special substances capable of unstopped motion once initiated.

WROC-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, about supply chain issues with holiday items.

WROC-TV talks to Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, about the uptick in "digital dares."

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security.

This year’s Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend, Oct. 15 through 17, features numerous in-person events including entertainment, hockey, speakers, escape rooms, axe throwing, a zip line, tours, open houses, and more. Building on the success of last year’s Tiger Alumni Week, a variety of virtual programs specifically for alumni will be held beginning on Oct. 11.