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Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Students, faculty, and staff are starting a new year during a continuing global pandemic. But that’s not stopping the momentum of student success, research, fundraising, and building projects designed to make RIT even better. That was just part of the message RIT President David Munson told the university community this morning at his annual President’s Address.

A record number of first-year students Wednesday made their way to the Gordon Field House and Activities Center to cheers and welcomes from faculty, staff, and members of the RIT Pep Band during the annual Tiger Walk and New Student Convocation.

RIT alumna Brig. Gen. Stacy Babcock ’91 (criminal justice), ’96 (educational interpreting), ’98 MS (instructional technology) has been named deputy commanding general and Reserve Personnel Management Directorate director for U.S. Army Human Resources Command (HRC) in Fort Knox, Ky.

Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Globe Post.

Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by Wired.

Essay by Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, published by AlterNet.

Humanities, the magazine of The National Endowment for the Humanities, features Jill Bradbury, chair, NTID Department for Performing Arts.

Essay by Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, published by The Conversation.

Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe.

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.

In an op-ed for Rochester Business Journal, Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics at RIT, discusses the implications for both the U.S. and China if war breaks out between them over the future of Taiwan.