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Associate Professor Moumita Das is part of a team of researchers that was recently awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to design and create next-generation materials inspired and empowered by biological cells. The team’s goal is to create self-directed, programmable, and reconfigurable materials—using biological building blocks including proteins and cells—that are capable of producing force and motion.

Professor André Hudson, head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, received a $443,583 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Department of Health and Human Services to isolate, identify, and characterize new antibiotics.

Professor Christy Tyler from the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences and Associate Professor Matthew Hoffman from the School of Mathematical Sciences secured two NOAA Marine Debris Program awards to lead interdisciplinary projects with big environmental implications.

A project spearheaded by NTID has received a $500,000 grant from the Nippon Foundation to create two Centers on Employment to support the education and employment of people who are deaf or hard of hearing in the Philippines and Vietnam.

The Democrat and Chronicle features 2021 Minett Professor Perry Ground.

AdvisorSmith talks to Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, about cyber insurance for business owners.

Consumer Reports talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, about alternatives to traditional Christmas trees.

Time magazine talks to Daniel Johnson, chair of the Department of Packaging Science, about the mechanics behind reuse programs.

EdScoop talks to Derek Sylvester, director of building environmental services and infrastructure, about RIT's three floor-cleaning robots.

Spectrum News features Eric Kunsman, lecturer in the Department of Visual Communications Studies and adjunct professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, and his project photographing payphones in the Rochester area.

Scientific American talks to Callie Babbitt, professor of sustainability, about the scale of the e-waste problem and how researchers want to solve it.

WXXI talks to RIT President David Munson and Thomas Warfield, director of dance, about a new bust of singer and actor William Warfield.