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Dr. Jessica Cantlon (Carnegie Mellon University) and Dr. Caroline DeLong (Rochester Institute of Technology) completed an education pilot study that bridges animal behavior research and computer coding to engage elementary school students in real-world, interdisciplinary science. The elementary school students code games for olive baboons to play at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, N.Y. The pilot study shows the students gained computational thinking skills over the course of the coding unit.

Intermediate REACH students at Hilton’s QUEST are coding games for baboons at the Seneca Park Zoo. They recently worked with Dr. Caroline DeLong, professor and undergraduate director of psychology at RIT, who is running the study to increase young students’ interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) by engaging them with something that is interesting and familiar – animals at the zoo. She is working with a team of researchers at both RIT and Carnegie Mellon University.

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When kids are presented with the choice of learning to code or going to the zoo, most would choose the latter. An RIT professor wonders why they can’t do both.

From robot waiters to river otters, RIT’s Graduate Showcase will cover a wide variety of topics representing graduate scholarship from the university’s Henrietta and global campuses. The symposium, held April 7, will feature oral presentations in the morning and poster presentations, demonstrations, and visual exhibitions in the afternoon.

Kaitlin Gunther, a fourth-year psychology and computer science double major from Webster, N.Y., is trying to better understand how fish view the world. Gunther will present her research, Visual Discrimination of Rotated 3D Unicolor Objects in Goldfish, at RIT’s virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Research involving North American river otters based at a zoo in Rochester has concluded that the aquatic mammals can visually discriminate between two-dimensional objects and detect differences in shapes and colors.

One way that Seneca Park Zoo helps save wildlife is through conservation science. Your Zoo partners with academic institutions and with other zoos and aquariums to conduct and support research that helps understand the species in our care.

Research involving North American river otters based at Monroe County’s Seneca Park Zoo has concluded the fascinating animals can visually discriminate between two-dimensional objects and detect differences in shapes and colors.

More than 250 student projects, representing all nine colleges, were on display at the 27th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 3 at RIT.

Research at RIT article on research in the humanities and social sciences at RIT, featuring my research involving students on visual perception in river otters

Charlie joins Dr Caroline DeLong to find out just how intelligent otters are.