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September 21, 2024
RIT, Red Wings team up for fifth annual Deaf Culture Night
WHAM-TV highlights the annual Deaf Culture Night event hosted at Innovative Field, made possible through a partnership with RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID).
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September 20, 2024
Inside Sign Speak’s Mission To Make Accessibility Out Of American Sign Language And Artificial Intelligence
Banking Financial talks to the founding team of Sign Speak about community autonomy being at the core of all they do.
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September 20, 2024
From business incubator to market: Four startups graduate from Venture Creations
Venture Creations has graduated 54 companies, with approximately $500 million in total funds raised.
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September 20, 2024
Tor Network Denies Report That ‘Anonymity Is Completely Canceled’
Gizmodo speaks to Matthew Wright, Endowed Professor and department chair in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the alleged German de-anonymization of a Tor user.
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September 20, 2024
How Trump’s Tariffs Would Radically Redistribute Wealth Upward
An essay by David Cay Johnston, Professor of Practice in the College of Liberal Arts, about how the tariffs would work to make the rich richer, published by The New Republic.
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September 19, 2024
‘My, My, Tiger’s Eye’ exhibition brings graduate student artwork to the Rochester community
Focusing on their growth as artists is what motivated Alex Paat and 14 graduate students to create My, My, Tiger’s Eye, a new exhibition hosted at Flower City Arts Center.
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September 19, 2024
RIT receives $3.97 million award to improve quantum system networking initiatives
RIT has been awarded $3.97 million from the Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH) to advance quantum chip technologies. The focus will be on scaling the power of quantum systems by entangling them across a photonic network.
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September 19, 2024
Four startup companies graduate from RIT's business incubator program
WHAM-TV speaks with Johan Klarin, director of RIT's Venture Creations Incubator, about the companies.
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September 19, 2024
RIT Trustee Andrew Jacobson makes largest commitment by an alumnus to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
RIT trustee and alumnus Andrew Jacobson has pledged $1 million in support of Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The Andrew Jacobson Endowed Scholarship represents the largest commitment by an RIT/NTID alumnus in the college’s history.
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September 19, 2024
Engineering faculty member builds new research project aimed at exploring how AI acquires and understands information
While large-language models such as Chat GPT are sophisticated, there are still issues with performance because the system does not intuit the way a human can—yet.
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September 19, 2024
Chemical engineering faculty member receives NSF Early Career award
The two-year project will explore the effectiveness of using an alternative, one-step ethylene production route which reduces the formation of unwanted by-products such as carbon dioxide as opposed to the multi-step process currently being used.
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September 18, 2024
PRISM opens as a meeting space for students with intersectional identities
A new space has opened on campus to create community, have conversations, and foster learning through educational and unique programming focusing on women, queer students, and their allies.