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Philadelphia magazine features Gabby Gonzalez, a first-year chemistry student who went on tour with Jon Anderson of the band Yes.

LaVerne McQuiller Williams, professor and current interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts, has been named associate provost for Faculty Affairs at the university, effective Sept. 1. In this role, McQuiller Williams will oversee the Office of Faculty Affairs, within the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Cindy Wolfer, an advisor for the Master's program for the Department of Computer Science, was selected to serve as a mentor for the NACADA's Graduate & Professional Studies Mentoring program.

Cindy was also featured in the August 2021 addition of the NACADA newsletter:

WHEC-TV talks to Maya Penn '18 (psychology), a graduate student studying secondary education of students who are deaf or hard of hearing, about RIT's Peace Corps Prep program.

Dozens of RIT students are once again crisscrossing the globe this year for in-person international education experiences. Thirteen students from RIT’s global campuses and 11 students from RIT’s international exchange partners came to study at RIT’s campus in Rochester this fall. Meanwhile, 16 students from RIT’s Rochester campus have headed off for study abroad experiences across the world.

RIT School of Art's Anna Ballarian Visiting Artist Series adds a new dimension to the College of Art and Design's already robust visiting artist and exhibition programming.  

Shanti Thakur—who began her new role as director of RIT’s School of Film and Animation in the College of Art and Design earlier this month—is an award-winning fiction and documentary filmmaker who has taught for nearly two decades.

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

Frame.io, a video collaboration platform co-founded by John Traver '10 (Motion Picture Science), was acquired by Adobe in a deal worth $1.275 billion. Frame.io built a user base of more than 1 million, including the likes of HBO, MasterClass and Netflix.

Laural Hartman and Sarah Kinard created a large-scale mural combining painting and printmaking for the annual PLAY/GROUND showcase in downtown Buffalo.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 51: Complex manufacturing processes of semiconductors and growing demands along the global supply chain for computer chips is impacting numerous industries. Robert Pearson, professor of microelectronic engineering, and Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, discuss how the semiconductor supply chain has been disrupted.

The College of Engineering Technology's Department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology is now the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology.