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Christie Lutzer

When David, a third-year exercise science major, heard about the study abroad program offered through RIT Global, he was determined to go and to take his sister with him. In June, the Brassies left for the six-week program at Perrotis College, where they would study the Mediterranean diet and Greek culture.

RIT researcher Bolaji Thomas is leading a $650,000 study to compare the genetic response in cattle in sub-Saharan Africa to the parasitic disease Trypanosomiasis, or “sleeping sickness,” that attacks their blood and brain. As parasites adapt to a warming world, the biting fly that transmits Trypanosomiasis could someday migrate to northern climates.

RIT behavioral health researchers are providing remote mental health care and addiction therapy to rural communities in New York and New Hampshire and training for therapists to deploy the digital treatments at their clinics.

RIT biomedical sciences program graduates Cameron Shuman and Zach Williams represent the first cohort of students admitted to the State University of New York Upstate Medical University.