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March 28, 2024
RIT professor serves on prosecution team for the precedent-setting trial against operator of Bitcoin Fog
Divya Ramjee served as a member of the prosecution team for a criminal case against the operator of Bitcoin Fog. On March 12, a jury found the defendant, Roman Sterlingov, “guilty of operating among the longest-running and most prolific bitcoin money laundering services on the darknet.”
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March 25, 2024
College of Liberal Arts Honors Students for Writing Excellence
The College of Liberal Arts recognized twenty students from across RIT majors and disciplines for their excellence in writing at its recent awards presentation.
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March 25, 2024
Famed tabla musician to perform and build bridges at RIT
Sandeep Das, a Grammy-winning musician and internationally known master of the Indian tabla, will work with students and give a concert at Rochester Institute of Technology during a four-day artist-in-residency. -
March 21, 2024
Innovation unleashed: students forge transdisciplinary projects at RIT's a2ru summit
Students leveraged the variety of makerspaces in RIT's brand-new SHED facility to create arts-integrative work responding to a theme of "Play."
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March 21, 2024
Graduate students selected as finalists in the 2024 Coca-Cola Refreshing Films program
The CCRF program is a platform that provides students the opportunity to create content for the big screen. Each year, the program creates a student scripting challenge which invites students from partnered schools to submit their ideas. Four scripts were selected as finalists this year to receive funding for production.
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March 18, 2024
Finally, a way to tell how clean grid batteries actually are
Canary Media speaks to Eric Hittinger, associate professor in the Department of Public Policy, about carbon emissions from batteries.
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March 18, 2024
Dancing through the cosmos
Rochester's City Magazine talks to Thomas Warfield, senior lecturer and director of dance, about the overlap of dance and astronomy.
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March 18, 2024
Does the warm winter mean we will see mosquitoes earlier in NY?
The Democrat and Chronicle talks to Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.
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March 18, 2024
Women’s History Month poster contest entries showcased in the SHED
As part of RIT’s Women’s History Month celebrations, students from across the university submitted their poster designs to the annual Women’s History Month poster contest. The theme of each contest entry is crafted around a quote from Audre Lorde’s collection of essays, Sister Outsider.
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March 13, 2024
The human cost of cashless transactions
The Rochester Beacon speaks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, about the issue.
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March 7, 2024
Digital products can hurt/help their physical counterparts
The Buffalo News features an essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, about the impact on sales. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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March 7, 2024
Philosophy, ethics, and the pursuit of 'responsible' artificial intelligence
Evan Selinger, professor in RIT’s Department of Philosophy, has taken an interest in the ethics of AI and the policy gaps that need to be filled in. Through a humanities lens, Selinger asks the questions, "How can AI cause harm, and what can governments and companies creating AI programs do to address and manage it?" Answering them, he explained, requires an interdisciplinary approach.