News by Topic: Faculty
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November 15, 2021
Annual Day of Thanks honors generosity and impact of RIT donors
Alumni Brandy ’08 and Luiz ’07 Freitas, founding members of RIT’s Sentinel Society, are proud that they are able to give back to the university community that means so much to them. Each year, the generosity and impact of donors are honored during RIT’s Day of Thanks. Today, all RIT donors will be sent a “thank you” video message, and faculty and staff donors are encouraged to visit the Student Alumni Union until 1:30 p.m. to pick up a special chocolate bar.
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November 15, 2021
Engineering faculty awarded NSF funding to improve computing system memory
Dorin Patru and Linlin Chen, faculty-researchers at RIT, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to upgrade functions of programmable memory. They, along with colleagues from University of Rochester, will develop new algorithms to improve the internal computing memory system to enable scalable and more robust performance.
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November 12, 2021
RIT taking part in nationwide study to reduce food waste
Spectrum News talks to Callie Babbitt, professor of sustainability, and Diana Rodriguez Alberto, a sustainability Ph.D. student, about their research on reducing food waste.
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November 12, 2021
Facebook’s next privacy nightmare will be a sight to see
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.
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November 11, 2021
Holiday shopping begins in Rochester area malls
WHAM-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, about how problems in the supply chain are affecting holiday shopping.
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November 9, 2021
Navigating the tricky world of parenting adolescents
The Creating a Safe Environment newsletter talks to Stephanie Godleski, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, about how parents can establish a strong relationship with their adolescent children.
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November 8, 2021
Photo exhibition explores intimacies of Black life
The Rochester Beacon features Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, and his solo exhibition in the main galleries at The George Eastman Museum.
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November 8, 2021
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration announces 90 gravitational wave discoveries to date
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration unveiled several studies that shed important new light on the nature of gravitational waves. They include a “census” of gravitational wave events to date and a new catalog of results from the second half of its third observing run.
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November 2, 2021
RIT to celebrate military service with Veterans Day Breakfast on Nov. 11
RIT's annual Veterans Day Breakfast returns this year featuring a keynote address by RIT alumnus, adjunct faculty member, and active member of the military, Thomas L. Peeples ’94, ’03 MS.
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November 1, 2021
A small telescope past Saturn could solve some mysteries of the universe better than giant telescopes near Earth
Essay by Michael Zemcov, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Detectors, published by The Conversation.
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October 29, 2021
Connections: Ghost stories and spiritualism in Western New York
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Hannah Davis, professor in the School of Individualized Study.
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October 29, 2021
Antibiotic resistance is at a crisis point – government support for academia and Big Pharma to find new drugs could help defeat superbugs
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.