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January 24, 2019
Interpretive dance production incorporates deaf, hearing performers
A collection of interpretive dances based on children’s prose and poetry is featured in a new production by NTID’s Performing Arts department.
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January 24, 2019
GRE fails to identify successful Ph.D. students
A team of researchers led by RIT Professor Casey Miller discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics.
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January 24, 2019
The Importance of Cyber Insurance for Businesses
Albawaba quotes Josephine Wolff, assistant professor of public policy and computing security.
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January 23, 2019
Connections: Discussing Governor Cuomo's proposed ban on single-use plastic bags
WXXI's "Connections" program features Enid Cardinal, senior sustainability advisor to the president.
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January 23, 2019
RIT moves up a classification among research universities
RIT is now listed as a “high research activity institution” or “R2” under the updated Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning.
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January 22, 2019
RIT to collaborate with Argentine institute
RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and Insituto Argentino de Radioastronomía are beginning new systematic pulsar timing studies. RIT is helping IAR upgrade its two radio telescopes to get them operational again after decades without use.
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January 22, 2019
RIT robotics club receives donation from the Raymond Corp.
Undergraduate students at RIT recently received a $10,000 donation from the Raymond Corp., one of the top material handling companies in the field today. The Multidisciplinary Robotics Club will use the funding to support current projects and professional development opportunities.
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January 22, 2019
Tianjin University of Technology engineers visit RIT
Tianjin University of Technology leaders toured the RIT campus and its Kate Gleason College of Engineering as the Chinese university looks to expand its teaching and research capabilities in the area of microelectronic engineering.
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January 22, 2019
Innovative research scientist to give RIT’s 2019 commencement address
Messenger Post Newspapers writes about John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, who will be the keynote speaker for Rochester Institute of Technology’s annual commencement celebration.
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January 22, 2019
Professor Lousto recognized as outstanding physicist diversifying the field
The American Physical Society is recognizing RIT Professor Carlos Lousto for significant contributions to physics research and the advancement of underrepresented minority scientists.
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January 22, 2019
Adam Interviews Special: Race in Rochester
WROC-TV features Tina Chapman DaCosta, Diversity Theatre Program director.
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January 21, 2019
A conversation on Photonics for Quantum
Organizers of RIT’s Photonics for Quantum Workshop discuss the future of quantum technology.