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August 10, 2020
RIT relies mostly on U.S.-manufactured and locally sourced goods and services for fall infrastructure upgrades
As RIT makes changes and enhancements to the campus’s infrastructure, cleaning, and safety procedures to prepare to reopen this fall, it is doing so largely thanks to the help of American-manufactured and sourced supplies.
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August 10, 2020
RIT faculty look ahead to classroom instruction this fall
COVID-19 has challenged the university to consider an even more creative academic portfolio with blended, online, split A/B, and flex class options. To prepare for in-person instruction, RIT has upgraded academic buildings and classrooms. And physical distancing and face coverings, required of faculty and students in classrooms, together provide some of the greatest protection against the spread of COVID-19.
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August 7, 2020
So, What Does Kodak Do These Days? A Decade of Pivots Before a Huge Federal Loan
The Wall Street Journal talks to John Ward, principal Lecturer in the Department of Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, about Kodak shifting to pharmaceuticals.
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August 7, 2020
COVID-19 alert system aims to identify, reduce risk
RIT is developing an alert system that systematically defines levels of COVID-19 prevalence and transmission risk within our community. Each level will be associated with predetermined actions aimed at reducing risk during the coronavirus pandemic.
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August 7, 2020
RIT Upward Bound program provides high school students a taste of the college experience
RIT’s Upward Bound summer program is providing area high school students a preview of life as a college student. This year, 24 students from the Leadership Academy for Young Men and Greece Olympia High School participated in the six-week enrichment program, held virtually for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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August 6, 2020
Performing arts classes continue with social distancing in place
WHAM-TV talks to Thomas Warfield, director of dance; Andy Head, assistant professor in the Department of Performing Arts; and Jonathan Kruger, chair of the Department of Performing Arts, about changes to the dance, theater, and music programs.
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August 5, 2020
Clear masks help the hard of hearing, but they could benefit everybody
Popular Science talks to Bernard Hurwitz, associate vice president for NTID Administration, about the benefits of see-through masks.
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August 5, 2020
Journalism program to discuss the future of Rochester news
Editors and reporters from Rochester news outlets will discuss how they are fulfilling their duties of a free press during the COVID-19 pandemic during a panel discussion organized by RIT’s School of Communication. “The Future of News in ROC” will be held via Zoom on Sept. 8 and is free and open to the public.
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August 5, 2020
Connections: Discussing the state of diversity in television in 2020
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Tina Chapman, director of Diversity Theater.
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August 5, 2020
RIT student Justin Gallagher helps lead NASA-funded project to build single photon detectors
An RIT student is on a mission to help build detectors that could identify individual photons from distant, inhabitable planets. Justin Gallagher, a fifth-year student from Rochester, N.Y., pursuing his BS in physics and MS in astrophysical sciences and technology, is serving as project manager for a nearly $1 million grant funded by NASA to create a single photon sensing and number resolving detector for NASA missions.
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August 5, 2020
New Student Government president ready for ‘interesting’ year
Meet Shine DeHarder, this year’s Student Government president. DeHarder, who served on RIT’s Community Readiness committee this summer to help the university reopen for students, has three main goals as Student Government president: reducing food insecurity on campus; improving diversity, inclusion, and accessibility on campus; and improving transparency between Student Government and the student body.
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August 3, 2020
International trade has cost Americans millions of jobs. Investing in communities might offset those losses
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Conversation.