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Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 56: RIT Dubai President Yousef Al-Assaf speaks with Bob Finnerty, RIT’s associate vice president of communications, to discuss the new campus and the vision for RIT Dubai in this emerging part of the world.

The Rochester Beacon features Barbara Lohse, head of RIT’s Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition.

The Fram Advisory Boards and the COVID stories planning committee are inviting all our campus communities to an interactive series of participatory sessions exploring the impact of the pandemic on our lives—personal and professional, and contributing to our thinking about where we go from here.

The spring university-wide Career Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Gordon Field House. Some 3,000 students are expected to attend.

When NASCAR driver Tony Stewart struck and killed an up-and-coming competitor on a rural dirt track, local police ruled it an accident. Several years after the tragic encounter, the incident was re-analyzed by several leading forensic engineers, including RIT Professor Martin Gordon.

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.

Space.com features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy.

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.

Rochester Business Journal highlights Tiffany Panko, director of the Deaf Health Laboratory in the Center for Culture and Language at NTID.

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.

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.

WHAM-TV talks to Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer of computing security, about how Russian scammers could target people through email or Facebook.