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April 9, 2019
Friendly's Closings: How healthy trend may have hurt restaurant
The Democrat and Chronicle talks to Eugene Fram, Saunders College of Business professor emeritus and retail expert, about the decline of Friendly's restaurants.
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April 8, 2019
Celebrating 50 years of deaf education at NTID
NTID celebrated 50 years since the establishment of the world’s first technological college for deaf students with a rededication ceremony April 5. Attendees included members of the original faculty and class of NTID students from 1968 and Lucinda Robb, granddaughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1965, President Johnson signed Public Law 89-36, allowing for the creation of NTID. The rededication marks the first time that a relative of President Johnson has visited the campus since Lady Bird Johnson visited in 1974.
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April 8, 2019
Diverse scholars invited to apply for RIT’s Future Faculty Career Exploration Program
Historically underrepresented minority scholars are invited to apply for an innovative career development program this fall to experience life as an RIT faculty member.
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April 8, 2019
Connections: Discussing the film, "The Wall," and issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics.
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April 8, 2019
Scientists use multispectral imaging to uncover lost text from manuscripts in Croatia
Croatia has a treasure trove of historically significant manuscripts, but after 800 years of fading ink and worms eating their parchment, much of the text has become impossible to read. Scientists from RIT are using multispectral imaging to make the writing legible once again and preserve the important information the manuscripts hold.
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April 8, 2019
'Light & Sound' to highlight Rochester's interactive media opportunities
WHAM-TV talks to Ryne Raffaelle, vice president for research and associate provost, about the upcoming 2019 Light and Sound Interactive Conference.
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April 7, 2019
RIT alumnus behind iconic baseball photo
Ron Sherman ’64 (photography) can tell you exactly what he was doing on April 8, 1974. And now so can baseball fans. Sherman was at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium with more than 100 photographers capturing the moment Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old Major League record.
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April 6, 2019
Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you
MIT Technology Review talks to Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, about Google's AI principles.
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April 5, 2019
RIT/NTID celebrates 50 years of deaf education with Lyndon B. Johnson's granddaughter
WXXI reports on NTID's anniversary celebration.
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April 5, 2019
Volunteers needed for Baja SAE Rochester off road competition in June
Off-road racing is back at RIT as the university will host, and compete against, 100 collegiate racecar teams from around the world at the 2019 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge June 6-9.
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April 5, 2019
How to Photograph Flowers Splashing in Milk with an Infrared Laser
Blog post by Ted Kinsman, an assistant professor of photographic technology, published in PetaPixel.
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April 5, 2019
Does where you go to college really matter? We asked 10 Chicago CEOs.
The Chicago Tribune interviews John Hartmann ’85 (criminal justice), president and CEO of True Value Co.