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After arriving on campus for the first time just a few weeks before their audition, Angel Ash landed a major role in Macbeth, showing in the SHED’s Sklarsky Glass Box Theater.

Five months before the first audience is expected in RIT’s new Music Performance Theater, a string quartet from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and students from the RIT Philharmonic Orchestra were the first to take the stage to help conduct acoustic testing.

Researchers will soon use eye-tracking to show how deafness impacts vocabulary knowledge and reading as well as how deaf and hard-of-hearing children, who have historically shown lower than average reading outcomes, develop into highly skilled readers.

Casting aside the daily doomscroll and picking up a slow hobby like hand-stitched embroidery can provide a much-needed brain break for students. It can also open the door for them to give back to the community while expressing themselves.

The Cool Down speaks to Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, about the threat of invasive species in the waterway.

Over the next three years, the Research Experience for Undergraduates Site in Computational Sensing for Human-centered AI will welcome nine undergraduate students each summer to RIT’s campus. The site is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

An essay by David Cay Johnston, Professor of Practice in the College of Liberal Arts, published by Washington Monthly.

An essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, published by Rochester Business Journal.

An essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, published by Bottom Line.

An essay by Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, published by The Conversation.

The Secret Lives of Books, a special topics elective offered by the museum studies program in the College of Liberal Arts, gives hands-on experience with paper, ink, pigments, and all the material components of a book.