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October 24, 2021
The Sunday Show: The Perils of Amazon Ring
The Tech Policy Press podcast features Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, discussing his new academic article on Amazon Ring.
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October 22, 2021
Please don’t wear a computer on your face
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.
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October 21, 2021
RIT/NTID partners with Garth Fagan Dance
RIT students are already benefitting from a new partnership with Garth Fagan Dance, with RIT Performing Arts Scholarship students taking master classes downtown and students working on a semester-long arts management capstone project to deliver suggestions for the internationally known dance company to potentially implement.
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October 20, 2021
How To Recognize When Tech Is Leading Us Down a ‘Slippery Slope’
One Zero talks to Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, about tech and the slippery slope theory.
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October 20, 2021
US universities where employable liberal arts graduates are made
Study International features RIT's College of Liberal Arts and talks to Dean Anna Stenport.
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October 19, 2021
College of Liberal Arts student recognized nationally for tennis skills
Sophia Wozniak, a first-year psychology student with a concentration in neuroscience, was recently awarded a scholarship for her tennis skills through HearStrong and the NFL Players Association’s Professional Athletes Foundation.
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October 15, 2021
RIT professor receives grant to investigate horseshoe crab blood harvesting industry
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.
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October 11, 2021
RIT surpasses $76 million in research funding in 2020-21 pandemic year
RIT's sponsored research awards surpassed $76 million for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, another significant milestone in spite of the challenges posed to research efforts brought about by the pandemic. In addition, the university also achieved a new record in terms of the number and the cumulative value of proposals submitted.
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October 11, 2021
Connections: Discussing how to honor Indigenous peoples and Italian heritage
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Lawrence Torcello, associate professor of philosophy.
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October 11, 2021
How Columbus Day contributes to the cultural erasure of Italian Americans
Essay by Lawrence Torcello, associate professor of philosophy, published by The Conversation.
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October 7, 2021
RIT volunteers build an exhibition about migrant deaths along the US-Mexico border
RIT volunteers are building an exhibition called Hostile Terrain 94, which will open to the public on campus later this fall. The RIT exhibition is part of a global pop-up exhibition that will take place in around 150 cities nationally and internationally in 2021-22 to highlight the crisis along the US-Mexico border.
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October 6, 2021
The line between human and machine begins to blur
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.