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December 9, 2024
‘Be curious:’ Rochester native speaks on continued 'Jeopardy!' success
WROC-TV talks to David Bond, retired director of Sponsored Research Services, about his Jeopardy appearance.
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December 9, 2024
Deepfakes: Why we’re seeing more of them and how to differentiate reality from fiction
WROC-TV speaks to Matthew Wright, endowed professor and department chair in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, and Computing and information sciences Ph.D. student Y. Kelly Wu about identifying deepfakes.
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December 9, 2024
Distinguished Alumni Award winners named for 2024-2025
CEOs, Chief Financial Officers, and Chief Technology Officers are among the 12 RIT alumni honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards for the 2024-2025 year.
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December 9, 2024
Carrying coach’s lacrosse lessons into life
Jake Coon has turned RIT men’s lacrosse into a national powerhouse. Coon, though, prefers to talk about the 15 classes of leaders he helped shape and the assistant coaches who worked with him to build a top-notch program. He has built a community that is there for his players long after they graduate.
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December 6, 2024
New NASA, USGS funding continues RIT partnership with Landsat
RIT researchers have been a partner with Landsat projects for decades, and a group is now helping the program prepare for its next iteration with Landsat Next.
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December 5, 2024
Will More Trump 2.0 Picks Withdraw?
NDTV speaks with David Cay Johnston, Professor of Practice in the College of Liberal Arts, about the changes.
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December 5, 2024
Student spotlight: First-year student embraces advocacy role
Alejandro Esteban, a member of RIT’s Disability Leadership Scholars Program, educates others on campus about accommodations, and how students can advocate for them.
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December 5, 2024
Boosting Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Nations: Lessons from India
An essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, published by Medium. (This content may require a subscription to view.)
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December 5, 2024
Liberals Must Stop Treating Trump Voters as Enemies
An essay by Lauren Hall, associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts, published by RealClearPolitics.
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December 2, 2024
RIT student finds surprising fit with Electric Vehicle Team
Janet Hackman, a third-year economics and environmental sustainability, health and safety major from Rockville, Md., is the team manager of the RIT Electric Vehicle Team, a collegiate electric motorcycle racing team founded in 2012.
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December 2, 2024
CET’s Kyle Scher helps bring AI into the classroom
Kyle Scher knows AI, and he’s sharing it with his peers and faculty in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology. The third-year mechatronics engineering technology student from Dix Hills, N.Y. is leading a student team developing ProGenie, an artificial intelligence tool for faculty and peers.
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December 2, 2024
Tiny laboratories that fit in your hand can rapidly identify pathogens using electricity
An essay by Blanca Lapizco-Encinas, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, published by The Conversation.