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Twyla Cummings, dean of Graduate Education, and Claire Finnerty, a fourth-year biomedical sciences and public policy dual major, will receive this year’s Alfred L. Davis Distinguished Public Service Awards.

Meet James McGee and Kerri Zalba, two members of a student start-up company that uses wearable technology to help children on the autism spectrum.

Sheldon Lewis, a second-year computer engineering technology major, will appear on the 2018 Jeopardy! College Championship round, airing on April 9.

Oren Cohn, RIT Ambulance chief of operations, was honored as EMS Provider of the Year by the National Collegiate EMS Foundation. Cohn was recognized for his leadership role with the all-volunteer campus ambulance team.

Meet Luis Reyes-Umana, a fourth-year biomedical science major who traveled to Chile for the fall semester. From July to December, Reyes-Umana took classes and worked in local hospitals to get a taste of what international medicine is like.

RIT scientist Zoran Ninkov is developing and testing an astronomical imager inspired by an Oscar-award winning cinema projection system. The RIT astronomical imaging system is competing with other technologies for deployment on future NASA space missions for surveying star and galaxy clusters.

Alissa Roy, a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology’s media arts and technology program who then pursued her MBA with RIT’s Saunders College of Business, completed a co-op with MullenLowe last summer. And working for the advertising firm in its Boston office was a natural fit for her.

Technology development for “smart” forklifts and trucks that communicate with each other is underway at RIT where a team of engineers is building a next-generation intelligent materials handling system.

Tom Brenner ’16 (photojournalism), who almost quit photography, is now part of the White House Press Corps as a New York Times photographer. His duties include taking photos of the president and anyone who visits the White House for a public event.

A printed and electronic multidisciplinary journal produced by students from various programs in Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Art and Design was recently recognized in a competition against institutions from around the world.

As is tradition, Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Art and Design students and alumni received high marks for their creative advertising work in a local competition on March 15.