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School of Chemistry and Materials Science

RIT is hosting workshops this summer to help high school students from the Rochester area learn about the science behind clean energy and fuel cells. The “Clean Energy: Electricity Generation Using Fuel Cells” workshops feature hands-on experiments and tours of RIT’s facilities.

Jennifer Lynn Swartzenberg, a faculty member in NTID’s science and mathematics department, is the 2019-2020 recipient of the Ronald D. Dodge Memorial Faculty Grant and will receive $1,000 for her project to produce videos of established and new American Sign Language (ASL) signs for organic chemistry.

RIT Associate Professor Suzanne O’Handley has been selected by the Council on Undergraduate Research and the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation as the 2019 CUR-Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor Awardee. O’Handley, a faculty member in RIT’s School of Chemistry and Materials Science, was chosen from 10 finalists for her considerable achievements as a dynamic scholar, teacher and mentor.

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.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 5: Ricardo Carrion, a second-year chemistry major, talks with his faculty mentor, research professor Hans Schmitthenner, about overcoming life’s challenges and helping students from diverse backgrounds achieve their potential.

RIT professor Casey Miller won $880,000 from the National Science Foundation INCLUDES program, which seeks to increase and strengthen efforts to create a diverse STEM workforce to meet the nation’s future needs and maintain its standing in research and development.

The first Inclusive Excellence research fellowship was held this summer and paired seven undergraduate students in the College of Science with research mentors. The initiative is working to create a deeper understanding of diversity in the College of Science and at RIT.

Pannullo is the first hard-of-hearing student at RIT to be recognized as a Barry Goldwater Scholar. It is the highest undergraduate award of its kind for the fields of the natural sciences, math and engineering.

Steven Van Slyke ’88 (materials science) has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for co-inventing the organic light-emitting diode, or OLED.

Lea Vacca Michel, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, received the 2017 Edwina Award at the Women’s Career Achievement Dinner on April 24 for her significant contributions to enhance gender diversity and inclusiveness at RIT.