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October 27, 2020
Election Day Hackathon encourages people to use open technology for civic engagement
As the 2020 election results come in Nov. 3, civic hackers at RIT want to remind people about the power of technology and how it can be used for good. At RIT’s Election Day Hackathon, students, faculty, staff, and community members will analyze civic problems in the local community, state, and country and propose projects to address them.
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October 27, 2020
A contested election: 5 essential reads
The Conversation talks to Sarah Burns, associate professor or political science, about the history of contested elections in the U.S.
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October 26, 2020
RIT creates an open-source space to protect self-driving cars
WROC-TV talks to Hanif Rahbari, assistant professor in the Department of Computing Security, and Geoffrey Twardokus, a fifth-year computing security BS/MS student, about security issues with self-driving cars.
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October 26, 2020
Collaborative initiatives helping recent graduates reach for success during pandemic
Since the earliest days of the pandemic, a dedicated group of RIT faculty, staff, and alumni has come together to provide critical career guidance and insights to scores of recent College of Art and Design graduates beginning their careers at a most challenging time.
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October 23, 2020
‘Iron Jawed Angels’ film discussion Oct. 30
An HBO film about Alice Paul and the suffrage movement, Iron Jawed Angels, will be the focus of a campus discussion and part of RIT's centennial celebration of the 19th amendment and women’s voting rights, Moving Forward: Suffrage Past, Present and Future on Oct. 30.
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October 23, 2020
Research team wins Catalyst Award in first year of international challenge
David Borkholder, Linwei Wang, Caroline Easton, and Adam Smith, part of RIT's Personalized Healthcare Technology signature research initiative, recently won a Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine for their project, “Improving Health for the Aging through Daily Vital Signs Monitoring.”
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October 23, 2020
New scholarship available for students referred by alumni
The RIT Alumni Referral Award allows alumni to nominate one undergraduate student applying for admission to RIT for a $1,000/year scholarship, renewable for four years, totaling $4,000.
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October 23, 2020
Student Life Center opens for RIT community
RIT’s Student Life Center opens Monday for students, faculty, and staff hoping to keep fit now that colder weather is settling in. It will be open from 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. weekdays, and noon to 4 p.m. on weekends.
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October 23, 2020
Faculty, alumni collaborate on industry-recognized film
Many faculty and alumni of RIT's School of Film and Animation were part of the creative team for a documentary selected for a handful of festivals.
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October 21, 2020
The Souls of Black Professors
Inside Higher Ed talks to Donathan Brown, assistant provost for diversity and inclusion, about barriers facing Black faculty members.
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October 21, 2020
Professor Emeritus Linda Barton honored for laboratory instruction by American Physical Society
Professor Emeritus Linda Barton is the 2021 recipient of the Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction.
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October 21, 2020
RIT scientist receives NSF funding to explore cellular compartmentalization in bacteria
Moumita Das, an associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, received funding from the National Science Foundation to better understand the fundamental rules that allow bacteria to compartmentalize the functions within their cells.