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Lishibanya Mohapatra, an assistant professor at RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, hopes that a better understanding of how living cells maintain the size of their organelles can lead to therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. She earned a five-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how cells control the size of organelles.

Nearly 230 companies will visit the RIT campus on Sept. 21 for the university-wide career fair, and around 75 employers stay for the interview day on Sept. 22. The career fair will return to its original two-day format for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Image Permanence Institute, housed in RIT’s College of Art and Design, received a National Leadership Grant for Museums from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for research into plastic deterioration of modern heritage collections, specifically their physical response to storage and display environments.

Scientific American talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, about what information scientists are learning from the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

RIT is among the nation’s “Most Trusted Universities” in a recent nationwide survey conducted by decision intelligence company Morning Consult, which defined trust as the belief in an institution “to do the right thing.” RIT ranks No. 37 in public trust among the top 135 doctoral research universities featured in the U.S. News & World Report's 2022 Best National University Rankings.

RIT’s Big Shot will be shining a light on voting rights and equal rights at the photo project’s next location. On Sunday, Nov. 6, the team plans to illuminate the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.

The Rochester Beacon features 2022 Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award Susan R. Holliday '85 (MBA).

Susan R. Holliday ’85 (MBA), who led the turnaround and growth of the Rochester Business Journal during nearly three decades as president, publisher, and owner, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, presented by Saunders College of Business.

Monroe County’s Seneca Park Zoo, RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Rochester School for the Deaf will hold the first Deaf Culture Awareness Day at Seneca Park Zoo this Saturday, Sept. 17, rain or shine.

Conflicting information about the safety of vaccines and how viruses spread in the community has created doubt, confusion, and debate during the global COVID-19 pandemic. But scholars are looking at how critical thinking techniques can help manage misinformation.

RIT received two prestigious awards from the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine designated RIT as a 2022 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award recipient and a 2022 Diversity Champion.

WHAM-TV features RIT's 9/11 Remembrance Vigil and talks to first-year student Charles Adebayo Von Goins II, whose mother worked in the World Trade Center.