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January 20, 2022
RIT’s annual Let Freedom Ring event rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 1
RIT’s annual Let Freedom Ring event has been rescheduled to take place from 12-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 1, in Ingle Auditorium. The event was originally planned to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but was rescheduled when RIT closed due to a powerful winter storm.
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January 19, 2022
Making photos appealing on Instagram: NCSU researchers find the ‘like’ factors
WRAL Tech Wire features research by Gijs Overgoor, assistant professor of marketing, on what kind of social media images users prefer.
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January 19, 2022
RIT sees progress with wastewater COVID testing program
WHAM-TV talks to Jennifer Schneider, the Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking and a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety, about RIT's wastewater testing program.
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January 19, 2022
CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally
Essay by Maureen Ferran, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, published by The Conversation.
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January 19, 2022
These key qualities attract ‘likes’ on Instagram
Futurity features research by Gijs Overgoor, assistant professor of marketing, on what kind of social media images users prefer.
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January 18, 2022
A grassroots mental health strategy
The Rochester Beacon features Caroline Easton, director of the RIT Priority Behavioral Health and Clinical Psychology program.
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January 17, 2022
RIT Press publishes in-depth look at Will Burtin’s scientific approach to design
The contributions and relevance of a pioneering 20th century information designer is the focus of a new publication by RIT Press. Communicating Knowledge Visually: Will Burtin’s Scientific Approach to Information Design, by R. Roger Remington and Sheila Pontis, offers contemporary designers, educators, and students a master class in Burtin’s design philosophy.
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January 17, 2022
School of Communication announces administrative changes, new director
RIT’s School of Communication has appointed Tracy Worrell, professor of communication, as its new director. The previous director, Kelly Norris Martin, is now associate dean of faculty and staff affairs in the College of Liberal Arts.
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January 17, 2022
RIT professor Poornima Padmanabhan honored with NSF CAREER Award
Scientists look to space for origins of the solar system; chemical engineers like Poornima Padmanabhan are searching for the origins of life based on minute systems of molecules. Padmanabhan recently received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for “Chirality and polymer thermodynamics: frustration and amplification.”
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January 14, 2022
RIT’s City Art Space to host photo exhibition chronicling political path to Jan. 6 insurrection
A solo exhibition of photographs and video by David Butow, whose new book, Brink, chronicles politics in the United States from the 2016 presidential election through the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, is coming to RIT’s City Art Space.
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January 13, 2022
RIT dean shares benefits of Tai Chi
RIT faculty and staff are learning the graceful slow movements of Tai Chi from a master martial artist and RIT’s dean of the College of Health Sciences and Technology. Dean Yong “Tai” Wang introduced the class to Tai Chi over eight weeks at the Global Village fitness studio.
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January 11, 2022
Millions of women have quit their jobs during the pandemic, childcare partly to blame
WROC-TV talks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, about “disproportionate homework.”