News by Topic: Women
Rochester has a proud history of breaking barriers and fighting for social change. Susan B. Anthony and Anna Murray Douglass were Rochesterians and our community continues to celebrate their social contributions. RIT upholds a tradition of social equity by supporting female students with a host of clubs and organizations, as well as community resources, that provide platforms for meaningful discussion centering on feminine social justice.
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March 12, 2021
Deaf women fought for the right to vote
Essay by Joan Naturale, reference librarian, NTID, published by The Conversation.
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March 3, 2021
Comparing The COVID-19 Vaccines
NPR's 1A program talks to Maureen Ferran, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about how the different COVID-19 vaccines work.
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February 17, 2021
RIT celebrates outstanding staff with university’s Presidential Awards
RIT honored the service and dedication of its employees with the Presidential Awards for Outstanding Staff ceremony Feb. 17. The annual awards, this year held as a webinar, are presented to staff members who exemplify outstanding service and dedication to the university and who exhibit a high degree of personal ethics and integrity while consistently demonstrating a strong commitment to student success.
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February 12, 2021
TransDigm Group funds new scholarships to help underrepresented students at RIT
The Doug Peacock Scholarship will provide 75 awards in total for three cohort groups of five first-year students selected from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, College of Engineering Technology, and Saunders College of Business.
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February 5, 2021
Popular tool for measuring child feeding practices scientifically validated by RIT researcher
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.
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February 4, 2021
Why disputes between Congress and the White House so often end up in court
Essay by Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, published by The Conversation.
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February 3, 2021
Podcast: A KEEN Eye for Engineering
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.
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February 1, 2021
Electronic waste in the US is changing
Essay co-written by Callie Babbitt, associate professor in Golisano Institute for Sustainability, published by The Hill.
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January 28, 2021
Alumna helps ramp up rapid test manufacturing for national company
Dimple Joseph’s short-term assignment last year turned out to be a “really big start up.” As part of the healthcare company Abbott, Joseph contributed to the main manufacturing site’s readiness to produce the company’s new BinaxNOW Rapid Test, which meets the growing demand for testing options as pandemic cases rise.
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January 19, 2021
Top of Mind with Julie Rose: Electronic Waste
BYU Radio talks to Callie Babbitt, associate professor in Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about the problems with recycling today's thinner, lighter devices.
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January 15, 2021
Researcher opens behavioral health clinic
RIT’s behavioral health program is expanding in new directions with a clinic on campus and federal funding to deliver addiction treatment in rural communities in upstate New York and New Hampshire.
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January 10, 2021
Unnecessary risk: Women need safer options than giving birth in hospitals during pandemic
Essay by Lauren Hall, associate professor of political science, published in USA Today.