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March 26, 2019
RIT faculty earns federal award to study how to help more students become scientists and engineers
Assistant Professor Ben Zwickl has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to explore how lab-based, project-based and work-based learning environments can teach sophisticated problem-solving skills not attainable in lecture courses.
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March 21, 2019
Saunders College professorship facilitates ‘unlikely’ interdisciplinary research relationships
As The Benjamin Forman Collaborative Research Professorship, Victor Perotti acts as a facilitator for research alliances that benefit students and faculty that find value in building a portfolio around unique interdisciplinary partnerships.
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March 18, 2019
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March 18, 2019
Beloved faculty honored for commitment to students, industry
Always willing to lend a hand to his current and former students, Chris Lyons received the Rochester Advertising Federation's 2019 Silver Achievement Award.
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March 15, 2019
Data science community to gather at RIT for regional DataFest hackathon March 29-31
Teams of three to five students will have 48 hours to mine a complex data set pertaining to a real-world problem. Teams will test their statistical analytic and data science skills to find the best solution.
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March 15, 2019
Four RIT alumni recognized as Pulitzer Prize winners, finalists visiting campus March 19-22
Four alumni from the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences in the College of Art and Design—each of whom has been recognized as either a Pulitzer Prize winner or finalist in the last decade—will visit the RIT campus March 19-22 for a series of special events.
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March 13, 2019
RIT Associate Professor Suzanne O’Handley nationally recognized for mentorship
RIT Associate Professor Suzanne O’Handley has been selected by the Council on Undergraduate Research and the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation as the 2019 CUR-Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor Awardee. O’Handley, a faculty member in RIT’s School of Chemistry and Materials Science, was chosen from 10 finalists for her considerable achievements as a dynamic scholar, teacher and mentor.
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March 13, 2019
Local reaction to grounding of 737s
WHAM-TV talks to Agamemnon Crassidis, professor of mechanical engineering, about the issues surrounding Boeing 737 Max jets.
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March 13, 2019
Team receives grant to recreate the ‘sound signature’ of cultural heritage sites
Advanced audio technologies being developed are helping to preserve the unique sounds of historic sites from recording studios in Nashville, Tenn., to a pre-Columbian archeological site in Peru. Sungyoung Kim, an associate professor of audio engineering technology at RIT, is leading a team of researchers to develop a set of tools using advanced augmented and virtual reality technology to preserve and replicate the acoustics of historical venues.
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March 6, 2019
Real-world experience: Photo students cover Special Olympics
Students from RIT's photography school — along with those from other disciplines across campus — filled a website with compelling images, videos and stories from the 2019 Special Olympics New York Winter Games.
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March 6, 2019
RIT faculty-researcher creates 3D-printed platforms to produce bone and tissue replacements
Iris Rivero, an engineering professor at RIT, has found that compatible combinations of polymers and biomaterials can be successfully used to fabricate “scaffolds,” 3D-printed structures that signal the body to begin its own tissue regrowth. This research moves a step closer to the possibility of “smart,” 3D-printed bone, skin and cartilage tissue replacement.
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March 6, 2019
RIT researchers developing ways to use hyperspectral data for vehicle and pedestrian tracking
A classic scenario plays out in action films ranging from Baby Driver to The Italian Job: criminals evade aerial pursuit from the authorities by seamlessly blending in with other vehicles and their surroundings. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has RIT researchers utilizing hyperspectral video imaging systems that make sure it does not happen in real life.