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March 20, 2025
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Celebrating Women’s History Month through interdisciplinary research
The inaugural Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies symposium, hosted on March 28, will feature original work by individuals from across the RIT community.
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March 14, 2025
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What does it mean to be a principled conservative in 2025?
WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson features Lauren Hall, associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts.
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March 5, 2025
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Students use AI to aid United Nations in Ukrainian refugee response
Natalie Crowell and Olivia Croteau, both third-year humanities, computing, and design majors, are developing an AI tool that analyzes publicly available social media data, specifically from chat groups where refugees discuss needs related to housing, food, and other resources.
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February 14, 2025
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RIT community has free access to Bloomberg.com—Here’s how to register
The complimentary access is a result of an interdisciplinary team of RIT students winning the 2024 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge last fall. The winning “Tigers Trading” team outlasted 2,453 teams from 396 universities in 46 countries in a 6+ week simulated investing challenge.
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February 12, 2025
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Interdisciplinary collaborations drive innovation in cultural heritage preservation
RIT’s interdisciplinary collaborations enrich research across the university and beyond. Two of these collaborative projects recently received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of a total $22.6 million in grants given to support humanities projects across the nation.
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February 7, 2025
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Bloomberg Enriches Financial Education for 10,000 Students through Global Trading Challenge
Bloomberg reports on the RIT team that won the 2024 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge.
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February 4, 2025
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RIT economics professor weighs in on Trump's tariffs
WHAM-TV talks with RIT economics professor Amit Batabyal to break down the economic impact of President Donald Trump's tariff-driven trade wars.
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January 23, 2025
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Alm and Fitch awarded NSF grant to study visual prosody in ASL in collaboration with Gallaudet University
Linguists face a resource gap for studying visual prosody and its grammatical and emotional functions in sign languages, and for creating AI systems capable of processing visual prosody. Faculty members affiliated with RIT’s Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science aim to fill that gap through Deaf scientist-centered research.
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January 2, 2025
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RIT trio triumphs in global trading challenge
The team, supported by faculty adviser and finance professor Hao Zhang, won the 2024 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge.
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December 18, 2024
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Student spotlight: Researching health care for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people
Emma Kane, a third-year public policy major, has spent the past year working at the Deaf Health Laboratory, led by the mentors at the Deaf Health Care and Biomedical Sciences Hub (Deaf Hub) at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
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December 12, 2024
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Designers leave nothing on the table during the Beyond Fashion showcase
Decked out with technicolor lights and vibrant animated displays, RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios soundstage became a runway last week during Beyond Fashion. The rainbow runway featured a diverse collection of garments and wearables crafted by local designers and RIT students across multiple disciplines.
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December 10, 2024
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Crime Analysis Centers Managed by RIT’s CPSI Helped Reduce Gun Violence, Earned Award
Two New York state crime analysis centers, managed by Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives (CPSI), were recognized by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) earlier last month.
