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WXXI’s “Connections” program features Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics.

Croatia has a treasure trove of historically significant manuscripts, but after 800 years of fading ink and worms eating their parchment, much of the text has become impossible to read. Scientists from RIT are using multispectral imaging to make the writing legible once again and preserve the important information the manuscripts hold.

WHAM-TV talks to Ryne Raffaelle, vice president for research and associate provost, about the upcoming 2019 Light and Sound Interactive Conference.

RIT’s Multidisciplinary Robotics Club (MDRC) traveled to Harvard University on April 6th for the 3rd Annual PacBot Competition, returning home with a first-place win and a new high-score record of 1190 points.

Ron Sherman ’64 (photography) can tell you exactly what he was doing on April 8, 1974. And now so can baseball fans. Sherman was at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium with more than 100 photographers capturing the moment Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old Major League record.

MIT Technology Review talks to Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, about Google's AI principles.

Based on quality of work, Ting Chu won a Wacom Cintiq Pro in a contest entered by more than 70 College of Art and Design students. 

WXXI reports on NTID's anniversary celebration.

Off-road racing is back at RIT as the university will host, and compete against, 100 collegiate racecar teams from around the world at the 2019 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge June 6-9.

Blog post by Ted Kinsman, an assistant professor of photographic technology, published in PetaPixel.

The Chicago Tribune interviews John Hartmann ’85 (criminal justice), president and CEO of True Value Co.

Point2Homes talks to Nana-Yaw Andoh, assistant professor in the Master of Architecture program, about the ways in which growing cities expand.