Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education News

College courses are intended to be a bit brainy and thought provoking. But there’s nothing that says they can’t be fun, too.

The New York Times references research by Nathan Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy.

Essay written by Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, published by The Boston Globe.

There are 740 new RIT students enrolled in the Combined Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree program, designed to offer highly focused, goal-oriented incoming students a one-of-a-kind opportunity to work toward a bachelor’s and master’s degree, starting from the first day of classes.

The New York Post talks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, about how inflation is impacting summer budgets.

Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Conversation.

When RIT’s Computer Science House put out a call for hardware donations last year, Fred Oettinger—an alumnus and staff engineer at Wayfair—got an idea. He knew that Wayfair had just what they needed. Wayfair, one the world’s largest destinations for the home, has gifted RIT’s Computer Science House (CSH) about $850,000 in server equipment.

This summer has taken third-year political science student Kaitlin Sommer from her hometown of Rochester, N.Y., to Washington, D.C. She has earned an internship working for U.S. Rep. Joseph Morelle, who represents New York’s 25th congressional district.

The Democrat and Chronicle features its 2022 Revising the Rochester Narrative summer fellows: Genae Shields '22 (photojournalism); Madeline Lathrop, fourth-year journalism student; and Justice Marbury '22 (photojournalism).

Spectrum News talks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, about inflation and when to expect to see prices dropping.

The New York Times features Christine Sun Kim ’02 (applied arts and sciences).

Libraries and museums across the country have begun recapturing lost and obscured text on historically significant documents thanks to low-cost spectral imaging systems developed by faculty and students at RIT.