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As the 2020 election results come in Nov. 3, civic hackers at RIT want to remind people about the power of technology and how it can be used for good. At RIT’s Election Day Hackathon, students, faculty, staff, and community members will analyze civic problems in the local community, state, and country and propose projects to address them.

The Conversation talks to Sarah Burns, associate professor or political science, about the history of contested elections in the U.S.

Many of RIT’s international students who were accepted at the Rochester campus but were unable to get to the U.S. because of travel and visa restrictions have found enrollment alternatives and connections to classmates at all the university’s campuses.

An HBO film about Alice Paul and the suffrage movement, Iron Jawed Angels, will be the focus of a campus discussion and part of RIT's centennial celebration of the 19th amendment and women’s voting rights, Moving Forward: Suffrage Past, Present and Future on Oct. 30.

The Democrat and Chronicle partners with Associate Professor Hinda Mandell's News Editing class on a project to talk to first-time voters.

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

Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, contributes to a piece published in Politico.

The Guardian features a book co-written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy.

Matt Huenerfauth, professor and expert in computing accessibility research, is part of a team that has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to use artificial intelligence to better understand the role of facial expressions in signed and spoken languages.

Jessica Hardin, an assistant professor of anthropology, will be traveling to the South Pacific independent nation of Samoa to study how Samoan people make decisions about how to treat diabetes.

Spectrum News talks to Mike Johansson, principal lecturer in the School of Communication, about being a  good steward of social media.

Wallet Hub talks to Paul Ferber, professor of political science, about why minority voters are less likely to show up at the polls.