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February 27, 2022
Saunders College promotes gender equality through celebrations of women’s leadership in business
Saunders College of Business is increasing their efforts to promote women in business with the Women’s Leadership Summit, which aims to connect women, allies, alumni, and current and prospective students from the RIT and NTID community and to allow them to share career journeys and to develop new leadership skills and mindsets.
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February 26, 2022
Major James Webb Space Telescope project will map half a million early galaxies
Space.com features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
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February 25, 2022
An interview and podcast with RIT Dubai President Yousef Al Assaf
RIT Dubai President Yousef Al Assaf recently sat down for an interview with Bob Finnerty, RIT’s associate vice president of communications, to discuss the new RIT Dubai campus and his vision for RIT Dubai.
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February 25, 2022
RIT STEM educator included in Smithsonian exhibit
Rochester Business Journal highlights Tiffany Panko, director of the Deaf Health Laboratory in the Center for Culture and Language at NTID.
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February 25, 2022
Black Girls CODE founder is RIT’s Academic Convocation keynote speaker on May 6
Kimberly Bryant, founder of the nonprofit organization Black Girls CODE, will be the keynote speaker for RIT’s Academic Convocation ceremony starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 6, in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center.
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February 25, 2022
RIT astrophysicist awarded research leave to study gravitational waves as a Simons Fellow
Richard O’Shaughnessy, an associate professor in RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences, was awarded a prestigious fellowship to spend the next year preparing for an “onslaught” of gravitational wave discoveries. He is one of 10 faculty worldwide named 2022 Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics and is the first RIT faculty member to receive the award.
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February 24, 2022
Russian invasion on Ukraine may impact Rochester residents and businesses
WHAM-TV talks to Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer of computing security, about how Russian scammers could target people through email or Facebook.
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February 24, 2022
Professor Weissman On Russia & Cyber Security
The DiTullio and Moran radio show, on WAIO-FM (95.1), features Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, discussing Russian cyberattacks.
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February 24, 2022
Russia invades Ukraine – 5 essential reads from experts
The Conversation highlights an essay by Justin Pelletier, director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center.
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February 24, 2022
YouTube's Captions Insert Explicit Language in Kids' Videos
Wired interviews RIT assistant professor Ashique KhudaBukhsh about his research studying the AI algorithms that create auto-captions on YouTube and Amazon.
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February 23, 2022
RIT’s remote sensing experts help scientists keep an eye on the Earth
Scientists from RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science recently helped successfully bring the new Landsat 9 satellite online and are partnering with a startup on a bold new initiative to help scientists in government and the private sector monitor changes in the Earth’s surface temperature.
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February 23, 2022
Winner announced in 2022 Imagine RIT poster contest
An image of a 3D, futuristic, jack-in-the-box is the winning entry in this year’s Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival poster contest. The artist, Sarah Neff, a second-year new media design major from Waterbury, Vt., wins $500 in Tiger Bucks. More than 50 entries were submitted.