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January 24, 2024
Biden’s use of military in Yemen upsets congressional progressives, but fits with long tradition of presidents exercising commander in chief’s power
Essay by Sarah Burns, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, published by The Conversation.
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January 24, 2024
RIT leading NASA-funded supermassive black hole research
RIT scientists will be the lead researchers on a $1.8 million NASA grant to study electromagnetic signals from merging supermassive black holes.
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January 24, 2024
New exhibition guides visitors through RIT's stop motion history
"40 Years in Motion" holds RIT student-made stop motion animations dating back to the 1970s, paired with a display of the original puppets and props used to make the films.
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January 23, 2024
Hanging on the telephone: Maguire Museum tracks America’s disappearing payphones
WHYY, a PBS affiliate, features Eric Kunsman, assistant professor in NTID’s Department of Visual Communications Studies.
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January 23, 2024
Annual RIT-RPHS capstone exposes students to real-world research in various career fields
Twenty-three Rochester Prep High School students are part of this school year's capstone program that allows them to work weekly with an RIT professor on a specifically designed research project that simulates work in a college course. Subjects include bacteria and biology, criminal justice, data to map large trends, fiber bundles and game design.
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January 22, 2024
AI in Arts and Entertainment: A Double-Edged Sword
Essay by Juan Noguera, assistant professor in the School of Design, published by Divided We Fall
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January 22, 2024
Opinion: Embracing AI in Art and Design as a Transformative Tool
Essay by Juan Noguera, assistant professor in the School of Design, published by U.S. News & World Report.
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January 22, 2024
Why are Americans becoming less confident in higher education?
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Richard DeMartino, professor of management and director for the Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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January 22, 2024
RIT's Signatures Magazine Earns High Ranking
The 38th edition of the Rochester Institute of Technology student-run art and literary magazine, Signatures, was recently recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English in its annual Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines award program.
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January 22, 2024
RIT partners with Rochester's School No. 5 for art club 'takeover'
WHAM-TV features a partnership with School No. 5 and students in the visual arts–all grades (art education) master's degree program.
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January 22, 2024
Self-taught AI dynamo finds his niche at RIT
Motivated RIT freshman Brayden Levangie wastes no time designing his own curriculum to advance his AI and robotic research while at college. Levangie is a first-year student in RIT’s School of Individualized Study from West Boylston, Mass.
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January 19, 2024
Program to lift efforts to divert food waste quadruples goal, offsetting CO2e of a car circling globe 8K times
A program to tackle food waste by reimbursing community- and business-led projects across New York State exceeded its original goal by more than 400 percent, keeping 125,065 tons of food scraps and edible food out of landfills. Over six years, it provided key capital funding for many businesses, municipalities, and nonprofits as efforts to turn the tide on wasted food that continued to grow in the Empire State.