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September 14, 2021
RIT announces patents donation, creation of Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence
Dr. Russell W. Bessette and his wife, Melissa, joined RIT officials and other dignitaries to announce a donation of two patents and the creation of the Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence, a $3.05 million bequest from which funding will be awarded annually as part of recruitment or at any point during a doctoral student’s enrollment at RIT.
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September 14, 2021
Connections: Why has the Libertarian party had trouble attracting more people?
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Lauren Hall, chair, Department of Political Science.
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September 14, 2021
New RIT visual modeling of coronavirus leads to discovery of behavior of second cellular ‘touchpoint’
WROC-TV features research by Gregory Babbitt, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences; Patrick Rynkiewicz ’20 (bioinformatics and computational biology), ’21 MS (bioinformatics); Professor André Hudson, and Associate Professor Feng Cui.
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September 14, 2021
RIT receives $3M donations in patents, annual award for students
WHEC-TV features RIT's recent announcement about a donation of two patents and the creation of Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence.
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September 14, 2021
RIT's doctoral programs receive boost with new patents
WHAM-TV features RIT's recent announcement about a donation of two patents and the creation of Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence.
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September 13, 2021
RIT students test voting machine security for capstone project
WROC-TV talks to Ian Stroszeck, a fifth-year computing security BS/MS student, and Andrew Afonso, also a fifth-year computing security BS/MS student, about their project to test a popular voting machine for security issues.
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September 13, 2021
Variety of RIT artists chosen for Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery
W. Michelle Harris, an associate professor in RIT’s School of Interactive Games and Media, has had her piece In Their Wake, an interactive digital memorial to the forgotten Black people who developed Rochester, selected for the 67th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition, the region’s longest-running juried exhibition. Harris is one of 28 members of the RIT community who had pieces selected for the exhibition.
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September 13, 2021
RIT again ranked among the best universities in the nation by ‘U.S. News’
RIT has again been recognized as one of the best national universities by U.S. News & World Report, which also cited the university as among the most innovative, best valued, and with highly regarded cooperative education and internship programs.
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September 10, 2021
Unveiling the Illusion
Scientific American references Flip Phillips, professor in the School of Film and Animation, and his work studying how sculptors create the effects of multiple materials, and how viewers can mentally separate the layers.
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September 10, 2021
Q&A: What’s dumb about smart cities
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.
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September 10, 2021
RIT working to support Afghan scholars who have evacuated their country
In the wake of the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan and the Afghan government’s collapse, RIT is collaborating with universities, nonprofits, and governmental agencies to support students and scholars who have evacuated the country or are attempting still to leave.
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September 10, 2021
Alumnus who tracked Flight 93 as air traffic manager shares his 9/11 memories
Rick Kettell ’84 (logistics and transportation management) is a retired Federal Aviation Administration senior manager. In 2001, he was the air traffic manager at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center and tracked Flight 93 before it crashed in Somerset County, Pa., on Sept. 11.