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December 3, 2020
Deaf Community Faces Further Barriers To Communication During COVID-19
The Transcontinental Times talks to Scott Gentzke, assistant director of RIT/NTID Student Life, about RIT's communication methods, testing, and use of see-through masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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December 3, 2020
RIT supply chain expert looks at vaccine distribution challenges
WXXI talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor in the Department of Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, about distributing the COVID-19 vaccine.
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December 3, 2020
RIT logistics expert on getting the vaccine to us: 'It's going to be like 78-dimensional chess'
WHEC-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor in the Department of Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, about distributing the COVID-19 vaccine.
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December 2, 2020
What to do and what to avoid for cord-cutting success this holiday season
CNY Central talks to Raj Murthy, associate professor of marketing, about alternatives to cable TV.
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December 1, 2020
RIT names two new members to its board of trustees
Joining the RIT Board of Trustees are Clayton P. Turner, director of NASA’s Langley Research Center, and James P. Swift, president and CEO of Cortera.
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December 1, 2020
RIT/NTID interpreting program earns national accreditation
RIT’s ASL-English interpretation program has achieved accreditation through the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education and now is one of only 16 accredited bachelor’s degree interpreting programs in the United States.
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December 1, 2020
RIT receives NIST grant to develop standards modules for Environmental Management and Safety curricula
RIT recently received a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop course modules that will provide students with guidelines and best practices in standards information toward helping organizations manage crisis situations.
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December 1, 2020
Leaders outline challenges for distributing a COVID-19 vaccine
WHAM-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor in the Department of Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, about shipping and storing the COVID-19 vaccine.
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December 1, 2020
Watch: Milton S.F. Curry “Paul R. Williams and the Legacy of Black Aesthetics”
Design Milk highlights the Vignelli Center’s Design Conversations Lecture Series.
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November 30, 2020
Hands-on engineering senior design program flourishes this fall
RIT’s Multidisciplinary Senior Design program began last fall with more projects for engineering student teams than expected, despite the pandemic. From collaborations with other universities and NASA to an anthropologist needing a robotic model of a dinosaur tail, all the projects represent innovative technologies built with sustainable, user-friendly designs.
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November 30, 2020
First-time voters in greater Rochester reflect on 2020 election experience
The Democrat and Chronicle partners with Associate Professor Hinda Mandell's News Editing class on a project to talk to first-time voters.
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November 30, 2020
A new front in the battle against breast cancer
The Rochester Beacon features research by Satish Kandlikar, the Gleason Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.