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May 16, 2019
Unstoppable passion
The Ellsworth American features Adam Fisher '10 (imaging arts - computer animation), a former animator at Laika Studios.
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May 16, 2019
Spreading Cracks On FIU Bridge Failed to Alarm Project Team
Engineering News-Record talks to Martin E. Gordon, a forensic engineer and professor in the Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Engineering Technology.
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May 15, 2019
How RIT and UR are enabling more students to pursue ideas and individualized studies
The Rochester Beacon interviews Jim Hall, dean of University Studies and the executive director of the School of Individualized Study.
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May 15, 2019
RIT to gather computational astrophysics experts from across the globe
Scientists conducting cutting-edge research in computational astrophysics will converge at RIT for two workshops in June. Experts from RIT, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Berkeley and other prestigious institutions will speak at the events hosted by RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation.
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May 15, 2019
Longtime RIT instructor John Dodd receives outstanding teaching award
John Dodd, an instructor in RIT’s College of Art and Design for more than 40 years, is the sixth recipient of the Edline M. Chun Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service. The award, named in honor of the late RIT adjunct professor Edline Chun, has been given annually since 2014 to a faculty member who exemplifies excellence and dedication in teaching to an affiliated school in the College of Art and Design.
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May 15, 2019
San Francisco ban highlights facial recognition fears
Yahoo! News quotes Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy.
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May 13, 2019
Indian students flock to UAE universities to avoid high competition back home
The National talks to Saleh Yammout, vice president for admissions, finance and administration at RIT Dubai.
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May 13, 2019
Mobile apps give the blind and visually impaired a new sense of freedom
CNET features Kristen Shinohara, assistant professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies.
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May 13, 2019
Unlimited opportunities seen for semiconductor industry
The Saratogian features Robert Pearson, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering.
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May 10, 2019
RIT students compete at ESPN Esports Championship
WHAM-TV reports on an RIT team's participation in the ESPN Collegiate Esports Championship.
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May 10, 2019
What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?
Guest essay by Nate Barlow, assistant professor of mathematical sciences, published by The Conversation.
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May 10, 2019
RIT’s record 4,200 graduates challenged to ‘enrich the world’
Keynote speaker John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), told graduates during this morning's convocation ceremony that they are entering “the Imagination Age, an age that calls for new ways to see, to imagine, to think, to act, to learn and one that also calls for us to re-examine the foundations of our way of being human, and what it means to be human.”