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October 6, 2022
RIT’s Brick City Weekend offers dozens of activities
Men’s hockey downtown, fireworks, performing arts, women’s volleyball, family activities, and speaker Seth Meyers are just a few of the events to enjoy at this year’s Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend, beginning next Friday.
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October 5, 2022
On the Trail of the International Space Station
The Provincetown Independent features Lauren Harnett '07 (imaging and photographic technology), who worked for 10 years as a photographer at NASA.
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October 5, 2022
Faculty researchers secure another workforce development grant to support growth of machinists in manufacturing
Faculty researchers received a new grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system that improves passage of tacit knowledge from skilled machinists to those coming into the field.
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October 5, 2022
Researching at the intersection of computing and accessibility
Ph.D. student Saad Hassan believes that accessibility should be a primary focus of technological innovation, not an afterthought. He recently received a grant from language-learning company Duolingo to fund his doctoral thesis on look-up systems for unfamiliar signs in languages like American Sign Language.
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October 5, 2022
Ambassador of the Republic of Mali visits RIT
The RIT community welcomed His Excellency Sekou Berthe, the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mali to the United States of America, on Oct. 4.
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October 4, 2022
Capping Russia’s oil profits could keep oil flowing to global markets at a reasonable cost while slashing Putin’s war funding
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Conversation.
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October 4, 2022
Dubai: University named among top 10 'quirkiest' college campuses
The Khaleej Times features RIT Dubai’s Innovation Centre building.
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October 4, 2022
Commentary: Use solar geoengineering to fight climate change
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by the San Antonio Express-News.
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October 3, 2022
REDCOM founders to receive philanthropy award from RIT
The Rochester Business Journal features the Gueldenpfennig family, who turned REDCOM Laboratories Inc. into one of the world’s leading suppliers of secure and reliable communications solutions and who were named the 2022 Phil Saunders Cornerstone of Philanthropy Award recipients by Saunders College of Business. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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October 3, 2022
Discussing how demagoguery impacts democracy
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Sarah Burns, associate professor in the Department of Political Science.
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October 3, 2022
RIT professor emeritus authors book on therapeutic benefits of fly fishing
Spectrum News features Patrick Scanlon, professor emeritus in the School of Communication, about his new book, Casting and Mending: How therapeutic fly fishing heals shattered minds and bodies.
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October 3, 2022
RIT Observatory hosting open house for the Rochester community
RIT is inviting the community to a guided look at the moons of Jupiter, rings of Saturn, and craters on the moon. The RIT Observatory will host an open house from 9 to 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, that is free and open to the public.