News Stories
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April 21, 2022
![An image of a robot with a blue spiky shell on time with the words "'IMAGINE RIT' THIS SATURDAY" on top and the WROC-TV logo.]()
Imagine RIT returns in-person Saturday
WROC-TV provides a special preview of the festival.
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April 21, 2022
![A girl in a standing wheelchair interacts with a screen on display in the Gordon Field House at Imagine RIT.]()
Imagine RIT returns as in-person event on Saturday
Spectrum News provides a peek at exhibits that will be on display at Imagine RIT on Saturday.
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April 20, 2022
![paper lanterns and a banner with the Imagine RIT logo hanging from a ceiling.]()
Imagine RIT returns in person this Saturday in Rochester
WROC-TV talks to RIT President David Munson about this Saturday's Imagine RIT festival.
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April 18, 2022
![woman wearing a headset and looking at a computer while sitting in a kitchen.]()
Surveillance firms experiment with computer vision for video conferencing oversight
WatersTechnology interviews Yu Kong, assistant professor in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D., about the capabilities of current facial recognition technology. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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April 18, 2022
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FAQ on Monroe County gas tax cap with local economist
WROC-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, about changes to the county's gas tax.
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April 16, 2022
![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.]()
RIT to confer four honorary degrees, one of them to the Ukrainian President
WXXI features the four recipients of honorary degrees from RIT, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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April 14, 2022
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How photography has advanced the natural sciences
The Adobe Blog talks to Michael Peres, professor and Gannett Chair of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, about photography in astronomy, physics, biology, Earth sciences, and chemistry.
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April 13, 2022
![density (left) and cooling function (right) of the surrounding plasma around merging supermassive black holes.]()
Bringing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers to Light
AAS NOVA reports on research conducted by Manuela Campanelli, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences and director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation.
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April 13, 2022
![combination of black-and-white photographs shows a group of people on a beach looking at a tree emerging from a body of water.]()
Jerry Uelsmann, Surreal Image-Maker, Dies at 87
Obituary for Jerry Uelsmann ’57 (imaging science) in The New York Times.
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April 11, 2022
![image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the Butterfly Nebula.]()
Five mind-blowing Hubble Space Telescope images from the past decade
The New York Post features a Hubble Space Telescope image created by an RIT team led by Joel Kastner, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.
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April 10, 2022
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Rochester Batman “humanizing the homeless”
WHEC-TV features the Batman of San Jose, an RIT student who provides food and supplies to the homeless and who wishes to remain anonymous.
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April 8, 2022
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RIT to create a School of Performing Arts
WXXI features RIT's announcement to create a School of Performing Arts.
