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July 21, 2020
9 New York Attractions That Offer Programs for Visitors Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
The I Love NY site highlights NTID's Dyer Arts Center.
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July 20, 2020
RIT Ready: Reopening Plan and Safety Plan now available
RIT unveiled two plans that outline the actions that the university and its individual community members must take for a safe, productive, and meaningful Fall 2020 semester.
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July 20, 2020
RIT course schedules near completion
As the RIT community prepares to return to campus this fall, an environment of physical distancing and reduced classroom occupancies has added a new component to the course scheduling process. Throughout the summer, every college has worked to rebuild the fall schedule to accommodate the unique requirements of the fall semester.
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July 17, 2020
Staggered move-in at RIT planned to promote safety
Approximately 2,900 new students will be arriving at RIT over four days beginning Aug. 12, rather than on a single move-in day, which was the procedure in past years. All residence hall rooms are limited to two students and occupancy will be reduced in elevators to promote physical distancing.
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July 17, 2020
How one environmentalist set out to detect microplastics in his own body
CTV News talks to Nathan Eddingsaas, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, about the presence of microplastics in the human body.
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July 16, 2020
RIT Rallies: Printing company creates face shields
A company that employs 14 RIT graduates donated 21,000 face shields to health care facilities in need.
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July 16, 2020
The advantages of working differently
RIT Ph.D. candidate Mehdi (Aslan) Dehghani secured an internship at bio-device company after his team's research paper was published nationally.
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July 16, 2020
Researchers develop new method to filter extracellular vesicles to improve diagnostics options
Researchers at RIT and the University of Rochester discovered an alternative to successfully purify biological particles to better understand how cells communicate with one another.
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July 16, 2020
Searching for microplastics within the human body
The Globe and Mail features work by Christy Tyler, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, and Nathan Eddingsaas, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science.
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July 16, 2020
Statue of Frederick Douglass replaced in Maplewood Park
WHEC-TV interviews Olivia Kim, sculptor and adjunct faculty member in the College of Art and Design.
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July 15, 2020
RIT "beyond pleased" after immigration policy on international students repealed
WHAM-TV reports on RIT President David Munson's reaction to the federal government rescinding a policy that would affect international college students.
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July 14, 2020
Zooming with German university to talk cars and automotive technology
A study abroad experience for RIT’s College of Engineering Technology (CET) students took place over Zoom when the class connected with peers from Hochschule Mittweida University of Applied Sciences in central Germany.