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October 14, 2020
RIT alumna leads U.S. Election Assistance Commission during unique election
Mona Harrington ’08 MS (professional studies) was appointed executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in June 2020. As leader of the EAC, Harrington has revamped the agency and spearheaded a series of initiatives to ensure COVID-19 and cybersecurity challenges don’t harm the election process.
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October 14, 2020
RIT to host virtual discussion with author, journalist, activist George M. Johnson
RIT’s Inclusive Excellence program will host a virtual discussion with acclaimed author, journalist, and activist George M. Johnson, whose work explores the intersectionality of topics including race, sex, gender, and culture, on Wednesday, Oct. 21.
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October 14, 2020
National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards $1 million grant to team
Matt Huenerfauth, professor and expert in computing accessibility research, is part of a team that has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to use artificial intelligence to better understand the role of facial expressions in signed and spoken languages.
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October 14, 2020
L3Harris becomes industry partner for RIT’s Future Photon Initiative
RIT’s Future Photon Initiative (FPI) and L3Harris have entered into a new industry partnership to develop quantum technologies. The partners will begin developing next steps for experiments and analysis focused on quantum information processing for communication, sensing, and computing.
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October 14, 2020
NSF grant awarded to help RIT research diabetes in Samoa
Jessica Hardin, an assistant professor of anthropology, will be traveling to the South Pacific independent nation of Samoa to study how Samoan people make decisions about how to treat diabetes.
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October 13, 2020
Super-massive black hole discovery brings home the Nobel Prize in physics, and an RIT professor helped
WROC-TV talks to Don Figer, professor and director of RIT’s Future Photon Initiative and the Center for Detectors, about this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
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October 12, 2020
Columbus is the wrong hero for Italian-Americans: In fact, associating him with us is a form of cultural erasure
Essay by Lawrence Torcello, associate professor of history, published in the New York Daily News.
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October 12, 2020
RIT students create video games to help flatten the curve
A class of RIT students is taking part in an international game design and development competition to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic and flatten the curve.
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October 12, 2020
RIT students creatively connect with one another
RIT students are creatively connecting with each other, using applications like Discord and Slack to virtually study and socialize day and night.
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October 12, 2020
RIT encourages university community to use COVID Alert NY app
A new app from the New York State Department of Health can alert people if they have been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 — and all without compromising user privacy and personal information.
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October 12, 2020
Heated tents give students more outdoor options
Two large, heated tents are being erected to offer students on the RIT campus additional options for dining, studying, and safely socializing.
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October 12, 2020
How to Extend Wi-Fi to Your Outdoor Space
Martha Stewart magazine talks with Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, about how to extend Wi-Fi to an outdoor space.