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April 23, 2020
The US’ China Gambit Has Failed. It Is Time to Decouple
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Globe Post.
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April 23, 2020
Fixing the forgetting problem in artificial neural networks
An RIT scientist has been tapped by the National Science Foundation to solve a fundamental problem that plagues artificial neural networks. Christopher Kanan, an assistant professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, received $500,000 in funding to create multi-modal brain-inspired algorithms capable of learning immediately without excess forgetting.
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April 22, 2020
Celebrating the Class of 2020
RIT will celebrate the Class of 2020 with a virtual conferral of degrees on May 8, with plans for an in-person, traditional event at a future date when it’s considered safe, said President Munson and Provost Granberg in a letter to the graduates and the community.
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April 22, 2020
College of Liberal Arts honors students for writing excellence
RIT’s College of Liberal Arts honored student achievement in writing with more than a dozen writing awards for essays varying from wasteful energy, maternal mortality, eyewitness testimony policies and seeking worth in a liberal arts degree. Each department within the college selected student awardees whose work embodies the ideals and standards of excellence, creative endeavor and scholarship.
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April 22, 2020
RIT scientists develop first 3D mass estimate of microplastic pollution in Lake Erie
RIT scientists have developed the first three-dimensional mass estimate to show where microplastic pollution is collecting in Lake Erie. The study examines nine different types of polymers that are believed to account for 75 percent of the world’s plastic waste.
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April 22, 2020
Researchers study drug treatment programs
Members of RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives are doing their part to help combat the opioid epidemic by determining the effectiveness of a dependency treatment program offered to inmates at the Monroe County Jail.
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April 22, 2020
NSF funds RIT researchers to develop code for astrophysics and gravitational wave calculations
The National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at RIT, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, Georgia Tech and West Virginia University grants totaling more than $2.3 million to support further development of the Einstein Toolkit, a community-developed code for simulating the collisions of black holes and neutron stars, as well as supernovas and cosmology.
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April 22, 2020
Where is the hand sanitizer?
WROC-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the agricultural and the consumer goods supply chain.
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April 21, 2020
RIT students turn to Minecraft to recreate a digital version of campus
WROC-TV talks to Alexa Amoriello, second-year game design and development major, about the digital RIT campus that students are building in the video game Minecraft.
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April 21, 2020
RIT Rallies: Professor builds interactive coronavirus mapping tools to contextualize the pandemic
Associate Professor Brian Tomaszewski is working to create interactive coronavirus maps that provide deeper insight into the spread of COVID-19 in the hope that the public can use these mapping tools to help fight the pandemic.
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April 21, 2020
RIT alumna conducting experiments on live samples of coronavirus in search of a treatment
Callie Donahue ’18 (biotechnology and molecular bioscience) is helping to test thousands of compounds on human cells infected with live samples of coronavirus in search of medicine that can be effective in deterring the virus’s infection and replication cycle.
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April 20, 2020
Students use ‘Minecraft’ to recreate a digital RIT campus
One brick at a time — that’s how members of RIT’s Electronic Gaming Society are building a digital version of the RIT campus in the video game Minecraft. As universities across the country closed their campuses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many students went to Minecraft as a way to stay connected with their schools. The game allows multiple players to collaborate on building structures and designing landscapes, including recreating physical places.