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December 31, 2021
The Super Mario that never was: Rare demo found at Strong Museum
WXXI talks to Kirsten Feigel ’15 (museum studies), a cataloguer for Strong National Museum of Play, and Stephen Jacobs, professor of interactive games and media.
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December 30, 2021
Livingston Co. distributes KN95 masks to its residents amid omicron spike
WHAM-TV talks to Andre Hudson, professor and head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about the benefits of KN95 masks versus cloth masks.
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December 28, 2021
Two RIT grads part of production team for ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
WROC-TV talks to Anna Dining '17 (motion picture science) and Chris Brands '14 (motion picture science) about their work on the latest Spider-Man movie.
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December 28, 2021
How to increase the uptake of EVs: Subsidize price or charging stations?
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by the Rochester Business Journal.
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December 28, 2021
RIT taking part in energy storage initiative
The Rochester Beacon features RIT's Battery Prototyping Center and its involvement in a state hub for new battery innovation, manufacturing, and workforce development.
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December 27, 2021
14 tech luminaries we lost in 2021
Computerworld honors the late Paul Taylor, retired NTID professor, for his work adapting existing TTYs into telecommunications devices for deaf people in the 1960s.
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December 27, 2021
Building a solid DEI foundation requires long-term commitment
Rochester Business Journal talks to Keith Jenkins, vice president and associate provost for Diversity and Inclusion, about RIT's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts.
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December 27, 2021
RIT, AT&T partner to help students create their own video games
Yahoo News features a story by the Democrat and Chronicle on the ROCtheChange Game Jam.
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December 25, 2021
RIT scientists have a role in the James Webb Space Telescope research
WXXI features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and the program she is leading to use the James Webb Space Telescope to study thousands of the earliest galaxies in the universe.
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December 24, 2021
Rochester researchers, engineers involved in launch of Webb telescope
WHAM-TV features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and the program she is leading to use the James Webb Space Telescope to study thousands of the earliest galaxies in the universe.
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December 24, 2021
On a yacht off St. Barts, the future of covid testing is taking shape
The Washington Post talks to Jennifer Schneider, professor and Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking, and Maureen Ferran, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about technology advances and COVID-19 tests.
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December 23, 2021
Adam Interviews RIT professor to explore galaxies through new telescope
WROC-TV features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy.