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October 21, 2020
Ph.D. student uses computing to help solve 90-year-old math problem
David Narváez, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, used his expertise in symmetry-breaking to help a cluster of computers solve a 90-year-old math problem called Keller’s conjecture in just 30 minutes. He also brought in techniques that make the proof verifiable, meaning that mathematical computer programs can confirm the answer is correct.
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October 21, 2020
Professor Emeritus Linda Barton honored for laboratory instruction by American Physical Society
Professor Emeritus Linda Barton is the 2021 recipient of the Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction.
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October 21, 2020
China makes it incredibly hard for foreign businesses to operate - but they stay because the money is just too good
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Conversation.
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October 21, 2020
Tobyhanna Army Depot announces equal employment opportunity initiatives
DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) features the partnership between Tobyhanna Army Depot and NTID.
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October 21, 2020
RIT scientist receives NSF funding to explore cellular compartmentalization in bacteria
Moumita Das, an associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, received funding from the National Science Foundation to better understand the fundamental rules that allow bacteria to compartmentalize the functions within their cells.
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October 21, 2020
College of Science receives RIT’s 2020 Changing Hearts and Minds Award
RIT’s College of Science is being recognized for its success diversifying the university’s faculty ranks and helping to advance RIT’s overall commitment to diversity. The college earned RIT’s 2020 Changing Hearts and Minds Award, sponsored annually by RIT’s Office of the Provost and the Office of Faculty Diversity and Recruitment. It marks the third time the college has received the award.
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October 20, 2020
Watch: RIT Design Conversations – A Life of Firsts: Noel Mayo
Design Milk highlights the Vignelli Center’s Design Conversations Lecture Series.
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October 19, 2020
Wastewater surveillance provides RIT another tool in the COVID-19 prevention toolbox
RIT turned some heads over the summer when it announced it would begin testing wastewater on campus for traces of COVID-19, but the method has proven to be an important piece of intelligence for the university to combat the spread of coronavirus.
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October 19, 2020
RIT spring semester will begin Jan. 25
RIT classes for spring semester will begin Jan. 25. The semester will also include three “recharge” days and one reading day prior to final exams. The last day of classes for spring semester will be Wednesday, May 5, with final exams running May 7-13. Commencement is scheduled for May 14-15.
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October 19, 2020
Faculty-researcher sees COVID-19 unfold from global perspective while on sabbatical at UNICEF
While the pandemic touched RIT locally, Ruben Proano, associate professor of industrial engineering, saw it from a global perspective, as part of a year-long sabbatical at UNICEF in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work extended ongoing research on making the vaccine market more affordable and profitable.
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October 18, 2020
How Trump Changed Childhood
Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, contributes to a piece published in Politico.
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October 18, 2020
Thirty books to help us understand the world in 2020
The Guardian features a book co-written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy.