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November 21, 2020
A half-century of service and generosity to RIT
The Rochester Beacon features Trustee Bruce Bates, who recently received RIT's Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy Award.
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November 21, 2020
College undergrads find hidden text on medieval manuscript via UV imaging
Ars Technica 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 21, 2020
Study prep for remote final exams
Final exams, scheduled for Dec. 1-8, will be administered remotely this semester. RIT’s Academic Success Center offers tips and strategies for getting the most out of study time and being “finals ready.”
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November 20, 2020
Local company working to fill need for disposable masks
The Virginian-Pilot features Vitali Servutas '05 (electric engineering), CEO of Premium-PPE.
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November 20, 2020
Students discover hidden message behind 15th century manuscript using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging system they built in class
The Daily Mail 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 20, 2020
Commentary: Thoughts on the great over-thinker, Barack Obama
Essay by Michael Brown, assistant professor in the Department of History, published in the Chicago Tribune.
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November 20, 2020
‘Spoon River Anthology’ finds life at RIT
A story written 100 years ago featuring epitaphs from dozens of deceased individuals is finding life this week as Spoon River Anthology premieres Saturday virtually on YouTube for the fall production from NTID.
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November 19, 2020
RIT researchers create programmable network switch to improve IP lookup time
A team of RIT computer science researchers has created a new programmable switch that significantly reduces lookup time, helping to improve router performance by more than 100 percent.
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November 18, 2020
Podcast: Global Cybersecurity Institute Unlocks a New Level
Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 40: Steve Hoover, the Katherine Johnson Executive Director of GCI, and Justin Pelletier, a computing security lecturer and director of GCI Cyber Range and Training Center, provide a sneak peek of what the Global Cybersecurity Institute's new 52,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility has to offer.
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November 18, 2020
RIT to establish public interest technologies group to collaborate with tribal communities
Paul Shipman, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, is the principal investigator and will use the $45,000 grant to build a career placement/pipeline model and build a working group at RIT of students and faculty who desire to work in PIT within tribal communities.
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November 18, 2020
RIT students discover hidden 15th-century text on medieval manuscripts
RIT students discovered lost text on 15th-century manuscript leaves using an imaging system they developed as freshmen. By using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging, the students revealed that a manuscript leaf held in RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection was actually a palimpsest, a manuscript on parchment with multiple layers of writing.
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November 18, 2020
Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch Black After All
NPR talks to Michael Zemcov, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about a new study on light outside of known galaxies.