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December 1, 2020
RIT/NTID interpreting program earns national accreditation
RIT’s ASL-English interpretation program has achieved accreditation through the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education and now is one of only 16 accredited bachelor’s degree interpreting programs in the United States.
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December 1, 2020
RIT receives NIST grant to develop standards modules for Environmental Management and Safety curricula
RIT recently received a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop course modules that will provide students with guidelines and best practices in standards information toward helping organizations manage crisis situations.
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December 1, 2020
Leaders outline challenges for distributing a COVID-19 vaccine
WHAM-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor in the Department of Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, about shipping and storing the COVID-19 vaccine.
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December 1, 2020
Watch: Milton S.F. Curry “Paul R. Williams and the Legacy of Black Aesthetics”
Design Milk highlights the Vignelli Center’s Design Conversations Lecture Series.
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November 30, 2020
Hands-on engineering senior design program flourishes this fall
RIT’s Multidisciplinary Senior Design program began last fall with more projects for engineering student teams than expected, despite the pandemic. From collaborations with other universities and NASA to an anthropologist needing a robotic model of a dinosaur tail, all the projects represent innovative technologies built with sustainable, user-friendly designs.
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November 30, 2020
First-time voters in greater Rochester reflect on 2020 election experience
The Democrat and Chronicle partners with Associate Professor Hinda Mandell's News Editing class on a project to talk to first-time voters.
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November 30, 2020
A new front in the battle against breast cancer
The Rochester Beacon features research by Satish Kandlikar, the Gleason Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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November 30, 2020
RIT designer creates solution to protect chemical respirator users during the pandemic
Dan Gabber, digital fabrication specialist in RIT’s College of Art and Design, has developed a creative solution for users of chemical respirators who also must protect against the spread of COVID-19: valve covers.
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November 30, 2020
Inside American Express's virtual mentorship program that's helping low-income teens get into and pay for college
Business Insider talks to Alexander-Joseph Silva, a first-year computer science student, about his experience with a mentorship program that connects high school students with corporate leaders and volunteers.
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November 29, 2020
Estates & Agency: Daniel Worden's Neoliberal Nonfictions
The Quietus reviews Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z, written by Daniel Worden, associate professor in the School of Individualized Study.
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November 26, 2020
College students discovered an invisible ancient text with their school assignment
Mashable features a project in which students discovered lost text on 15th-century manuscript leaves using an imaging system they developed as freshmen.
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November 25, 2020
RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute opens new career paths
WROC-TV talks to Steve Hoover, the Katherine Johnson Executive Director of the Global Cybersecurity Institute, about RIT's new facility.