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Essay by Sara Schley, research faculty member at NTID, published by The Conversation and republished by Yahoo News.

RIT will showcase a variety of research projects undertaken by students and faculty-mentors over the 2020-21 academic year during the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, held virtually July 29 through Aug. 4. Keynote speaker Michael Johnson, from the University of Arizona, will discuss “Lessons in being wrong and achieving comfort in chaos.” 

The Democrat and Chronicle interviewed Kenan Guler, assistant professor of management, about competitive business strategy.

Two electrical engineering students are refining an attitude control system and are seeking ways to reduce the impact of atmospheric heat that changes a spacecraft’s orientation during launch. Both students will share information about their work for CSTARS-2 during the 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Marissa Schroeter’s summer undergraduate research explores a global health issue with a local twist. Her work prospects for new antibiotic compounds produced by two bacterial strains collected from Lake Ontario. She will present her findings at the RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium.

In an op-ed for Rochester Business Journal, Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics at RIT, discusses the implications for both the U.S. and China if war breaks out between them over the future of Taiwan.

Dr. Cory Merkel, an assistant professor in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering and director of RIT's Brain Lab, will be presenting his work on neurochip applications at the 2021 Intelligence in Chip: Tomorrow of Integrated Circuits (ICTIC).

Forbes references research by Kristin Bain, assistant professor in the Department of Management.

Dr. Andres Kwasinski, a professor in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, and Dr. Fatemeh Shah-Mohammadi, an alumna of RIT's engineering Ph.D. program, have been granted a patent for the invention of a radio spectrum sharing leveraging link adaptation in primary network.

Graduate education at RIT has evolved over the last 60 years, and now, the university has officially created the RIT Graduate School, replacing the RIT Office of Graduate Education.

Inbound Logistics talks with Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, about how the need for supply chain resilience, visibility, agility, and control drives technology across multiple sectors.

WROC-TV talks to Michael Richmond, professor of physics and astronomy, about the future of commercial services for space travel.