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December 8, 2022
K-12’s Army Educational Outreach Program connects students with research opportunities nationwide
The K-12 University Center at RIT& runs the Apprenticeships and Fellowships division of the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP), helping high school students through post-doctoral students find positions at research labs and centers affiliated with the U.S. Army and with universities across the U.S.
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December 8, 2022
Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music and needlepoint contributed to her pioneering work in computing
Essay by Corinna Schlombs, associate professor of history, published by The Conversation.
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December 7, 2022
When Science and Superstitions Collide
The Science VS podcast features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, talking about images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Her segment begins at about the 14:00 minute mark.
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December 7, 2022
Plug Power Inc. establishes graduate scholarship at RIT
Plug Power Inc., a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, is partnering with RIT to provide scholarship support to a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in engineering, sustainability, and the sciences. The first Plug Graduate Scholarship was awarded this year to Mamta Choudhary, an industrial and systems engineering MS student from India.
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December 6, 2022
Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies
Scientific American talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about follow-up observations of images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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December 5, 2022
Black Women’s Historic Struggle for Labor Rights Continues
Diversity Inc. talks to dt ogilvie, professor of urban entrepreneurship and economic development, about work opportunities for Black women during the post-slavery Reconstruction time period. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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December 5, 2022
Linda Tolan, longtime faculty, staff, and administrative leader, retires
Linda Tolan built an influential career as a faculty member, academic and workforce consultant, and college administrator during her 42 years at RIT. She retired Dec. 1.
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November 28, 2022
Grad builds system for International Space Station
When NASA’s Cygnus spacecraft launched in spring 2022, technology built by Snehal Ravindra Ingle ’19 (electrical engineering) made its way to the International Space Station.
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November 28, 2022
Alumna uses film to teach diversity
Tina Cannaday Chapman DaCosta ’04 MS, ’14 MFA is using her parents’ life stories to teach important lessons about diversity, equity, and inclusion. In fall 2022, the director of RIT’s Diversity Theater program released Dear Eleanor, her second short film based on her parents’ lives.
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November 28, 2022
JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology
Scientific American talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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November 28, 2022
Research team awarded grant from NIST to develop new standards-based educational modules
A team of researchers from RIT was recently awarded a grant to develop curricular modules on infrastructure improvement and resilience that introduce students to public and private sector standards, including industry standards.
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November 21, 2022
Dozens of RIT researchers included on Stanford University’s list of the world’s top 2% of scientists
Numerous Rochester Institute of Technology faculty, professors emeriti, and postdoctoral researchers were recognized as top-cited scientists in their fields, according to a Stanford University study published by Elsevier.