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April 2, 2020
COLA Cares established for friendly support
Nearly 30 faculty and staff members from RIT’s College of Liberal Arts have volunteered to help their colleagues run errands, walk their dogs or just offer a voice of support during this period of social distancing.
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April 2, 2020
What Coronavirus Teaches U.S. About Putting All Its Eggs in One Basket
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Globe Post.
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April 2, 2020
RIT Rallies: Bringing expertise to battle with Coronavirus
Many RIT faculty, students, staff and alumni are among the collaborations here and across the nation, providing expertise to improve or create much-needed equipment and protective gear for medical personnel fighting the Coronavirus.
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April 1, 2020
Heart Health Intelligence Raises Funds for a Revolutionary In-Home Cardiovascular Monitoring Device
Yahoo! Finance features The Heart Seat, a smart toilet seat developed by Nicholas Conn '11, '13 MS (electrical engineering), research scientist and founder and CEO of Heart Health Intelligence.
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April 1, 2020
Seeing the COVID-19 Crisis Is Like Watching a Time Lapse of Climate Change. Will the Right Lessons Be Learned?
Essay co-written by Lawrence Torcello, associate professor of philosophy, published by Newsweek.
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April 1, 2020
Century Mold drops everything to make face shields for local hospitals
The Democrat and Chronicle talks to RIT trustee and alumnus Ron Ricotta '79 (accounting), CEO of Century Mold, a Rochester-based manufacturing company.
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April 1, 2020
Faculty member shares tips for ‘Staying Sane in Quarantine’
Thomas Kinsman, a lecturer of computer science, decided to write a paper to help his students maintain a sense of control and sanity during the COVID-19 crisis.
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March 31, 2020
Podcast: Experiencing History Where it Happened
Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 34: Studying history is more than poring over textbooks and old documents. History Professor Richard Newman and humanities Professor Lisa Hermsen talk about place-based learning, which gets students into the community to experience where the history happened.
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March 31, 2020
Tiger blood flows in Lawrence family
When new students come to RIT, they join the ever-growing Tiger family. For John B. Lawrence and his younger brother, Jared Lawrence, the Tiger family is more than just a proximal community; it’s also based on actual bloodlines.
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March 31, 2020
Alumni Update: Paintings featured in car magazine
Christine Tisa ’92 MFA (painting) has made a living as an artist, educator, gallery owner, and yoga instructor since she graduated from RIT. Most recently, her art has jumped off the gallery walls and onto the pages of Audi Magazine.
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March 31, 2020
Alumni Update: Get your cell phone wet? Redux has a solution
Entrepreneur Reuben Zielinski ’85 (electrical engineering) ’96 (EMBA) believes that generating a great idea is actually the easiest part of the product development process. The hardest part? Convincing other people that what you have is a great idea and getting them to buy what you have developed.
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March 31, 2020
Alumni Update: Role with game developer took root at RIT
During a 2008 visit to RIT while she was in high school, Madeleine Rabil ’13 (3D digital graphics) learned that the university’s then-called College of Imaging Arts and Sciences had just announced the creation of a new major for incoming students focusing on 3D as a medium. “I knew immediately that RIT was where I needed to be,” she says.