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WHAM-TV talks to Andre Hudson, professor and head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about the benefits of KN95 masks versus cloth masks.

Essay by Andre Hudson, professor and head, and Crista Wadsworth, assistant professor, Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, published by The Conversation.

RIT has modernized its approach to recruiting faculty members to improve representation. Assistant Professor Eli Borrego, pictured above, is an expert in the genetics and biochemistry of plant-microbe and plant-insect communication and ecology, and he was introduced to RIT through the Future Faculty Career Exploration Program.

PolitiFact talks to Andre Hudson, head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about a study on the spike protein that covers the surface of the COVID-19 virus.

Essay by Andre Hudson, professor and head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, published by The Conversation. This article was republished by Yahoo News, among others.

Professor André Hudson, head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, received a $443,583 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Department of Health and Human Services to isolate, identify, and characterize new antibiotics.

Professor Christy Tyler from the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences and Associate Professor Matthew Hoffman from the School of Mathematical Sciences secured two NOAA Marine Debris Program awards to lead interdisciplinary projects with big environmental implications.

WROC-TV features research by Gregory Babbitt, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences; Patrick Rynkiewicz ’20 (bioinformatics and computational biology), ’21 MS (bioinformatics); Professor André Hudson, and Associate Professor Feng Cui.

RIT scientists have uncovered new information about the way coronavirus and several of its variants attach to human cells. The researchers examined how coronaviruses use their spike proteins to attach themselves to the host cells they are attacking.

Marissa Schroeter’s summer undergraduate research explores a global health issue with a local twist. Her work prospects for new antibiotic compounds produced by two bacterial strains collected from Lake Ontario. She will present her findings at the RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium.

WHAM-TV talks to Mary-Anne Courtney, lecturer; Andre Hudson, school head; and Christy Tyler, associate professor, all in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about bacteria on cloth face masks and proper disposal of used face masks.

Once RIT secured enough antigen tests for students for the spring semester, plans for administering saliva tests were put on hold. But this did not stop faculty and students in RIT’s College of Science from creating a Plan B of new lab activities, research, and community outreach.