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December 6, 2022
Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies
Scientific American talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about follow-up observations of images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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December 6, 2022
Never too late to learn: Register for Osher winter classes
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT offers a unique learning program with in-person and online courses, special lectures, events, and trips for those over 50. Peer-led courses form the core of the program.
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December 5, 2022
RIT Interim Dean André Hudson named one of the ‘50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology’
Andre Hudson, interim dean of the College of Science, has been included in this year’s list of the “50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology.” The 22nd annual list will appear in the December 2022 issue of the Journal of Black Innovation.
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December 2, 2022
RIT Grad Receives Prestigious Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
Since graduating from RIT, Dr. Nicole Arroyo has earned her Ph.D. in immunology and received a prestigious Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from AAAS.
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December 2, 2022
Study by RIT scientists indicates SARS-CoV-2 variants are still transmissible between species
Scientists believe bats first transmitted SARS-CoV-2 to humans in December 2019, and while the virus has since evolved into several variants such as delta and omicron, a new study by scientists at RIT indicates the virus is still highly transmissible between mammals.
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December 1, 2022
Preserving history: RIT alumni leading the way in establishing imaging standards
Matthew Breitbart '10, Tom Rieger '74 and Don Williams '82 are core members of the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative, which provides uniform methods that drive the digitization efforts of federal agencies, libraries, archives, museums and institutions around the world.
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November 28, 2022
JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology
Scientific American talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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November 22, 2022
RIT astrophysicists leverage cancer center to damage single-photon CMOS detectors for future space missions
A recent trip to a cancer center in Boston helped astrophysicists from RIT's Center for Detectors reach a key milestone in their mission to develop advanced CMOS image sensors for future NASA space missions.
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November 21, 2022
Dozens of RIT researchers included on Stanford University’s list of the world’s top 2% of scientists
Numerous Rochester Institute of Technology faculty, professors emeriti, and postdoctoral researchers were recognized as top-cited scientists in their fields, according to a Stanford University study published by Elsevier.
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November 18, 2022
RIT Associate Professor Jie Qiao elected Optica fellow
Jie Qiao, an associate professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, was elected to the 2023 Fellow Class of the Optica Society (formerly OSA) by the society’s board of directors.
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November 17, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the earliest galaxies of the universe like never before, scientists say
Space.com talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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November 17, 2022
JWST just spotted two unusually bright galaxies from the very early universe
The Verge talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about images from the James Webb Space Telescope.