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April 8, 2019
Diverse scholars invited to apply for RIT’s Future Faculty Career Exploration Program
Historically underrepresented minority scholars are invited to apply for an innovative career development program this fall to experience life as an RIT faculty member.
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April 4, 2019
No longer lost in translation: Videos depicting complex scientific concepts break barriers for deaf STEM students
Research has revealed that people who learn English as a second language, including deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, are underrepresented in STEM fields because of academic language abilities required to compete in those disciplines. A new project at NTID is helping to break down those obstacles specifically for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
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April 2, 2019
RIT to host science education researchers from around the globe for PEER workshop July 5-13
RIT is inviting scholars from across the globe for a workshop this summer to foster innovative research in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education with a focus on developing junior and emerging researchers.
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April 1, 2019
Creating educational opportunities for all
Sabina Ismailova ’13 created Education for All, a growing nonprofit organization for children with developmental disabilities in Kazakhstan.
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March 29, 2019
RIT honored nationally as ‘Diversity Champion’
RIT is being honored nationally for its impact on diversity and inclusion. For the fifth consecutive year, INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine named Rochester Institute of Technology a Diversity Champion.
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March 28, 2019
Student Spotlight: Student receives COLA Kearse Writing Award
Meet Jen VanStrander, a fourth-year international and global studies student from Rochester, N.Y., who will be honored as one of this year’s recipients of the College of Liberal Arts Kearse Undergraduate Writing Awards.
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March 27, 2019
RIT and SUNY Upstate Medical University create pipeline to medical school
RIT and the State University of New York Upstate Medical University are offering a bridge program that guarantees qualified RIT undergraduates admission to the Upstate Doctor of Allopathic Medicine program.
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March 26, 2019
RIT faculty earns federal award to study how to help more students become scientists and engineers
Assistant Professor Ben Zwickl has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to explore how lab-based, project-based and work-based learning environments can teach sophisticated problem-solving skills not attainable in lecture courses.
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March 26, 2019
Cornel West and Robert George ‘Agree to Disagree’ at RIT
Political philosophers Cornel West, a progressive professor of public philosophy at Harvard University and professor emeritus at Princeton University, and Robert George, a conservative legal scholar at Princeton, will discuss the importance of learning how to disagree with respect, civility and humor during RIT's Center for Statesmanship, Law & Liberty’s sixth Annual Symposium.
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March 21, 2019
Student Spotlight: Student attends Diversity Abroad Student Leadership Summit
Meet Kevin Mejia, a fourth-year business management and international and global studies student who recently attended the fifth annual Diversity Abroad Global Student Leadership Summit.
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March 21, 2019
RIT to premiere short film aimed at promoting dialogue on diversity and inclusion
RIT will debut a new short film to be used as a tool for promoting dialogue on diversity and inclusion. Brick by Brick, presented by RIT Diversity Theater, premieres at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 28, in Wegmans Theater at MAGIC Spell Studios.
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March 21, 2019
RIT Libraries hosts Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon March 22
Women are the subject of less than 30 percent of biographies on Wikipedia, and RIT Libraries is seeking the community’s help to improve gender equity on the internet’s leading source of information.