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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.

One Zero talks to Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, about tech and the slippery slope theory.

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

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.

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.

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.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Lawrence Torcello, associate professor of philosophy.

Essay by Lawrence Torcello, associate professor of philosophy, published by The Conversation.

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.

Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.

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.

WROC-TV talks to Mike Johansson, adjunct faculty member in the School of Communication, and Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, about the Facebook outage on Monday.