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July 12, 2022
RIT economics professor discusses inflation, possibility of recession
Spectrum News talks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, about inflation and when to expect to see prices dropping.
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July 12, 2022
Ph.D. student applies imaging science to preventing disasters
Kamal Rana, an imaging science Ph.D. student from India, has been using his skills to help identify landslide triggers and develop models for forecasting landslides.
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July 11, 2022
RIT and NTID student film ‘Say Cheese’ now screening at Cinemark theaters nationwide
When audiences head to Cinemark theaters to catch a movie this July, they’ll also see a commercial produced by students from RIT and NTID. The short film, Say Cheese, was awarded the grand prize in the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films (CCRF) program.
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July 9, 2022
With Sign Language and Sound, an Artist Upends Audience Perceptions
The New York Times features Christine Sun Kim ’02 (applied arts and sciences).
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July 7, 2022
RIT scientists await first images from James Webb Space Telescope
The public will soon get its first glimpse at images from the most powerful observational instrument ever made. NASA will reveal the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images and spectra on July 12. RIT faculty closely involved with JWST will make media appearances to explain the significance of this momentous scientific achievement.
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July 7, 2022
NASA funds RIT scientists’ research into solar space travel
WXXI talks to Grover Swartzlander, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, about the Diffractive Solar Sailing project.
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July 6, 2022
Registration open for RIT Center for Urban Entrepreneurship Business Pitch competition
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship is once again hosting its Business Pitch competition, open to all businesses operating within Monroe County. The winner will be awarded $25,000.
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July 6, 2022
Microelectronic engineering professor developing options for improving memory technologies for storage and computing
Research at RIT into new energy-efficient materials for computing could improve the bottleneck that often occurs when retrieving large amounts of data, hindering processing throughput and energy efficiency.
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July 6, 2022
7 big questions the James Webb Space Telescope is about to answer
New Scientist talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about the James Webb Space Telescope's first scientific images. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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July 6, 2022
RIT faculty and alumni receive NASA funding to develop new diffractive solar sail concepts
NASA announced new funding for a project led by RIT alumni, faculty, and students that could power spacecraft to orbit the sun’s poles for the first time. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program will provide funding to the Diffractive Solar Sailing project led by Amber Dubill ’20, ’20 MS of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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July 6, 2022
More all-gender bathrooms, locker space open at RIT
In response to requests from students, RIT is adding more all-gender bathrooms and locker areas across campus. And soon, people of all genders can be using the same bathrooms at the same time, as RIT plans to incorporate all-gender bathrooms in some buildings, which will provide privacy in stalls, with common areas to wash hands.
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June 29, 2022
Organizational innovation: Agile leadership needed as we embrace the ‘new workplace’
Essay by Jacqueline Mozrall, dean of Saunders College of Business, published in the Rochester Business Journal.