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WORT-FM talks to Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, about her research on aquatic invasive species.

Essay by Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, published by The Conversation.

Assistant professor of public policy, Dr. Nathan Lee, builds CivicPulse, an open-data platform available for use by both academics seeking information about local governments and by the local government officials themselves to identify issues such as gender parity. CivicPulse has collected data through surveys on some 21,000 local governments – villages, cities, towns and counties.

Diverse subjects involving safety and autonomous automobiles, Black women in computing, and Italian cinema are just some of the winning entries for this year’s student writing awards, sponsored by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts.

WROC-TV talks to Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, about her team's research on white clover.

RIT contributed to a massive study on a tiny roadside weed that shows urbanization is leading to adaptive evolution at a global scale. As part of the Global Urban Evolution Project (GLUE) project, scientists from 160 cities across six continents collected more than 110,000 samples of white clover plants in urban, suburban, and rural areas to study urbanization’s effects on the plants.

RIT’s College of Liberal Arts began the academic year under new leadership. Dean Anna Stenport joined RIT from Georgia Institute of Technology’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts in September following a nationwide search. Stenport is a professor of communication and an expert in transnational cinema and media, modern literature and drama, and visual and cultural studies, with a focus on the Arctic and Nordic regions.

The Voices of the Chesapeake Bay podcast features Christine Keiner, chair, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, and her book, The Oyster Question.

The Conversation highlights an essay on Margaret Morse Nice written by Kristoffer Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.

Study International features RIT's College of Liberal Arts and talks to Dean Anna Stenport.

WROC-TV talks to Kristoffer Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, about his research on the biomedical use of horseshoe crab blood.

Believe it or not, horseshoe crabs help ensure the safety of pharmaceuticals and save human lives. RIT Associate Professor Kristoffer Whitney was awarded a $120,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to study this biomedical use of horseshoe crab blood.