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February 20, 2020
Most bacteria found on touch screens is resistant to antibiotics, RIT study finds
WROC-TV talks to Professor André Hudson, head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about antibiotic-resistant bacteria found on touch screens.
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February 20, 2020
Connections: Discussing perceptions of Black masculinity and gender identity
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, and Brandon Stroud, residence coordinator.
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February 20, 2020
Student Spotlight: Student creates artwork to sell at Shop One
Maddy Schoenfeld says that the beauty isn’t in the creation of the piece, but in the experience of the wearer. The fourth-year metals and jewelry design student tries to incorporate this idea into every piece of artwork that she sells at Shop One, the contemporary design shop on campus.
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February 20, 2020
Saler’s new 3D-printed shoes
Saler, a miniature donkey, received new, 3D-printed shoes this past weekend at Karen and Bob Pinkney’s Wychmere Farms in Ontario, N.Y. RIT biomedical engineering students were among the unlikely team brought together to help the 9-month-old little donkey whose tendons did not develop properly in his front legs.
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February 20, 2020
Global lemur expert to speak at RIT about technology in conservation
Patricia Wright, a world-renowned conservationist, will give a talk, “Building Forests and Saving Lemurs with Technology in Madagascar,” on Feb. 27 at RIT. Wright has long been a pioneer in using new technologies to solve conservation problems, and partnerships with RIT, the Seneca Park Zoo Society and others will advance these efforts further.
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February 20, 2020
Why is the concentration of economic power bad for America?
The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen interviews Arthur J Gosnell Professor in Economics Amitrajeet Batabyal about the importance of antitrust enforcement.
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February 20, 2020
Visual Studies Workshop presents ‘Evidence’
The Rochester Business Journal previews Evidence, a new exhibit by Assistant Professor Joshua Rashaad McFadden at the Visual Studies Workshop.
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February 19, 2020
RIT business professor receives entrepreneurship service award
dt ogilvie, Distinguished Professor of Urban Entrepreneurship at RIT’s Saunders College of Business, has received the Young Entrepreneurz Solutions Entrepreneurship Service Award for her role in promoting youth entrepreneurship.
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February 18, 2020
RIT art gallery hosting traveling craft exhibit borne out of political activism
A traveling exhibit that calls upon craft as a creative force in voicing dissent and expressing hope in an era of political disruption is making its first-ever stop at RIT over the next month.
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February 18, 2020
We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign
Vice talks to Saniat Sohrawardi, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, and Matthew Wright, director of the Center for Cybersecurity Research, about the technology used to create and detect deepfake videos.
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February 17, 2020
Female drivers at risk due to crash test bias
WROC-TV talks to Marty Gordon, professor in the Department of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology, about federal crash test standards.
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February 17, 2020
RIT students join Dove Block project
The Finger Lakes Times talks to Kelly Jahn, lecturer in the College of Art and Design, about a project her students are working on to help restore a 19th-century building in Geneva, N.Y.