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February 24, 2022
YouTube's Captions Insert Explicit Language in Kids' Videos
Wired interviews RIT assistant professor Ashique KhudaBukhsh about his research studying the AI algorithms that create auto-captions on YouTube and Amazon.
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February 23, 2022
RIT’s remote sensing experts help scientists keep an eye on the Earth
Scientists from RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science recently helped successfully bring the new Landsat 9 satellite online and are partnering with a startup on a bold new initiative to help scientists in government and the private sector monitor changes in the Earth’s surface temperature.
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February 21, 2022
Bollywood study reveals history of gender bias reflecting real life
Nature India interviews Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about his research using natural language processing methods to study film dialogues.
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February 21, 2022
Heart Health Month: Healthy-eating and exercise
Fox Rochester features Bill Brewer, senior lecturer and director of the exercise science program, about improving heart health with a healthy diet and exercise.
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February 21, 2022
RIT nutrition professor aims to reach 10,000 New Yorkers with ‘About Eating’ program
Barbara Lohse, head of RIT’s Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition, hopes to reach 10,000 New Yorkers with free resources promoting healthy nutrition and lifestyle tools that have been tested and shown to be effective.
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February 20, 2022
Sustainability seminar discusses new research in wetland restoration
Campus Times interviews Professor Christy Tyler about how to rethink wetland ecosystem restoration.
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February 19, 2022
Bring back the woolly mammoth? Steal DNA? The prospects and pitfalls of rewriting life
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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February 17, 2022
Bitcoin mining as a grid resource? 'It's complicated'
Utility Dive talks to Eric Hittinger, associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Public Policy, about cryptocurrency and electricity grids.
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February 17, 2022
Planning for what goes in the SHED is a community effort
While the SHED takes shape at the heart of the RIT campus, working groups are filling in the details of what will go inside the building.
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February 17, 2022
RIT/NTID laboratory director has life-size statue on display for If/Then She Can national exhibit
Tiffany Panko, director of the Deaf Health Laboratory in the Center for Culture and Language at NTID, will be among 120 women in STEM personified in life-sized statues that will be on display in Smithsonian gardens and in select Smithsonian museums March 5-27 for the #IfThenSheCan — The Exhibit.
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February 16, 2022
RIT professor’s photographs commemorate Black Lives Matter in ‘New York Magazine’
Joshua Rashaad McFadden, an internationally recognized assistant professor of photography in RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, was chosen to visually capture the story of the first decade of Black Lives Matter in New York Magazine’s February issue.
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February 15, 2022
RIT partners with industry experts on new curriculum in electronics design and manufacturing
EMA Design Automation, Cadence Design Systems Inc., and RIT are collaborating to provide college-level printed circuit board (PCB) design courses for students in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology. Taught both online and in-person by PCB design industry experts, the courses can provide engineers with training and development opportunities in key areas of electronics design and manufacturing.