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RIT’s Future Photon Initiative (FPI) and L3Harris have entered into a new industry partnership to develop quantum technologies. The partners will begin developing next steps for experiments and analysis focused on quantum information processing for communication, sensing, and computing.

Jessica Hardin, an assistant professor of anthropology, will be traveling to the South Pacific independent nation of Samoa to study how Samoan people make decisions about how to treat diabetes.

A class of RIT students is taking part in an international game design and development competition to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic and flatten the curve.

RIT students are creatively connecting with each other, using applications like Discord and Slack to virtually study and socialize day and night.

The Vignelli Center for Design Studies joined Google Arts & Culture as a partner, making hundreds of high-resolution artifacts from its archives available to an online audience.

WHAM-TV talks to Raj Murthy, associate professor of marketing, about Amazon Prime Day.

Linwei Wang has been named the new director of the Personalized Healthcare Technology signature research initiative at RIT, and Adam Smith has been named Creative Director, a new position with the group.

RIT’s computer science (CS) program is ranked #52 out of 481 undergraduate programs in the United States in recent rankings from US News & World Report. These are the first ever computer science-specific rankings by the publication, and RIT was the highest ranked program in Upstate and Western New York.

Spectrum News talks to Mike Johansson, principal lecturer in the School of Communication, about being a  good steward of social media.

Dr. Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management is part of the team that created the Logistics Managers’ Index (LMI), used to identify trends and developments in the industry over time. Their work was recently covered in Supply & Demand Chain Executive.

Spectrum News features George Zheng ’15 (mechanical engineering technology), co-founder of Leep Foods.

Wallet Hub talks to Paul Ferber, professor of political science, about why minority voters are less likely to show up at the polls.