News by Topic: Faculty

The Deseret News talks to Richard Newman, professor of history and author of Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced an expansive statewide arts festival consisting of pop-up events, “NY PopsUp,” which will feature more than 300 performances that will take place across the state to help revitalize the struggling live entertainment sector. RIT was contacted and asked to host a “NY PopsUp” performance by Garth Fagan Dance to say thank you to some of our frontline workers.

CNN News18 features Eric Hittinger, associate professor of public policy, who came across the French term for a pie chart and then went on to research other terms for the circular chart.

Martha Stewart magazine talks with Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, about how to access Wi-Fi safely while in flight.

Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, is part of an advisory board, The CLEEN Project, which recently launched the nation’s first co-operative idea database designed specifically for federal leaders in the new administration and focused on providing actionable ideas to combat climate change and advance climate justice.

The best-practice approach, known as the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding, has now been rigorously tested and peer reviewed. The questionnaire will become a standard parent survey for professionals and researchers working in the early childhood development field, predicts lead researcher Barbara Lohse, director of RIT’s Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition.

Essay by Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, published by The Conversation.

Saunders College of Business has announced an extension of its unique partnership with Jewish Senior Life. Over the next five years, the Jewish Senior Life Innovation Collaborative will support the development of research materials to explore how new technologies may impact and improve the lives of seniors.

WHAM-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor in the Department of Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, about the rise in demand for pools and hot tubs.

Spectrum News talks to Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, about malware attacks.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 43: The KEEN Engineering Unleashed network is driving change in engineering education. Patti Cyr, lecturer in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, and Jennifer O’Neill, assistant professor in the College of Engineering Technology, discuss what the entrepreneurial mindset is and how connections to the network are providing an edge for RIT students.

WROC-TV highlights work by Jan van Aardt, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.