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November 9, 2022
RIT’s College of Liberal Arts receives grant to enhance philosophy and communication offerings
RIT’s College of Liberal Arts plans to introduce new and revamped philosophy and communication curricula to help students across the university enhance their expressive and analytic communication skills. This was made possible by a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Teagle Foundation.
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September 9, 2022
Democrats are losing on a key battleground — the meme wars
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe. (This content may require a subscription to view.)
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September 2, 2022
Escape plans of the rich and famous
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe. (This content may require a subscription to view.)
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June 22, 2022
My advice to graduates is just one show: ‘The Wire’
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe. (This content may require a subscription to view.)
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April 21, 2022
Q&A: Shouldn’t we all just use our real names online?
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.
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March 21, 2022
College of Liberal Arts honors students for writing excellence
Diverse subjects involving safety and autonomous automobiles, Black women in computing, and Italian cinema are just some of the winning entries for this year’s student writing awards, sponsored by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts.
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March 21, 2022
The pandemic has changed the way we perceive technology — and how we resist it
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Washington Post.
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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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January 22, 2022
How real could virtual reality become?
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.
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December 8, 2021
Hi-Phi Nation: Life, Edited
Slate Podcasts’ Hi-Phi Nation interviews Evelyn Brister, professor of philosophy, about the ethics of bioengineering for conservation. Her portion begins around 14:45.
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November 12, 2021
Facebook’s next privacy nightmare will be a sight to see
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.
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November 3, 2021
RIT alumnus studies the intersection of technology and the liberal arts
Though he graduated with a computer science degree, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad ’06 spent much of his time at RIT in the College of Liberal Arts. He is a firm believer that inserting humanities and the liberal arts into science and technology curricula is imperative. Ahmad will return to RIT Nov. 4 as this fall’s Stan McKenzie Salon speaker for a virtual conversation with his former professor, Evan Selinger.