News
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October 18, 2020
How Trump Changed Childhood
Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, contributes to a piece published in Politico.
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October 16, 2020
RIT behavioral health researchers expand opioid addiction treatment to rural N.Y., N.H.
RIT’s Behavioral Health program is expanding in new directions with a clinic on campus and federal funding to deliver addiction treatment in rural communities in upstate New York and rural New Hampshire.
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October 16, 2020
Tiger Alumni Week offers dozens of virtual activities
Virtual reunions, interactive programs, talks, a 5K, e-Sports, and even Tiger Trivia are just some of the dozens of events slated for Tiger Alumni Week, beginning Monday for RIT alumni, students, families, faculty, and staff.
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October 14, 2020
RIT, URMC receive grant to study benefits of AI-enabled toilet seat technology
Toilet seats with high-tech sensors might be the non-invasive technology of the future that could help reduce hospital return rates of individuals with heart disease. A joint project by researchers at RIT and the University of Rochester Medical Center will determine if in-home monitoring can successfully record vital signs and reduce risk and costly re-hospitalization rates for people with heart failure. The five-year, $2.9 million venture is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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October 14, 2020
National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards $1 million grant to team
Matt Huenerfauth, professor and expert in computing accessibility research, is part of a team that has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to use artificial intelligence to better understand the role of facial expressions in signed and spoken languages.
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October 14, 2020
L3Harris becomes industry partner for RIT’s Future Photon Initiative
RIT’s Future Photon Initiative (FPI) and L3Harris have entered into a new industry partnership to develop quantum technologies. The partners will begin developing next steps for experiments and analysis focused on quantum information processing for communication, sensing, and computing.
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October 14, 2020
NSF grant awarded to help RIT research diabetes in Samoa
Jessica Hardin, an assistant professor of anthropology, will be traveling to the South Pacific independent nation of Samoa to study how Samoan people make decisions about how to treat diabetes.
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October 13, 2020
Super-massive black hole discovery brings home the Nobel Prize in physics, and an RIT professor helped
WROC-TV talks to Don Figer, professor and director of RIT’s Future Photon Initiative and the Center for Detectors, about this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
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October 12, 2020
Columbus is the wrong hero for Italian-Americans: In fact, associating him with us is a form of cultural erasure
Essay by Lawrence Torcello, associate professor of history, published in the New York Daily News.
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October 12, 2020
How to Extend Wi-Fi to Your Outdoor Space
Martha Stewart magazine talks with Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, about how to extend Wi-Fi to an outdoor space.
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October 9, 2020
Change in Prime Day expected to boost online sales for Rochester business
WHAM-TV talks to Raj Murthy, associate professor of marketing, about Amazon Prime Day.
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October 9, 2020
In a battle of AI versus AI, researchers are preparing for the coming wave of deepfake propaganda
Essay by John Sohrawardi, computing and informational sciences Ph.D. student, and Matthew Wright, professor of computing security, published by The Conversation.