News by Topic: Faculty
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January 24, 2025
How Tariffs Can Impact Your Small Business: An Up-To-Date Guide
Nav speaks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, about the impact.
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January 24, 2025
The Ugliest Thing San Francisco Ever Built: Lessons for AI Infrastructure
An essay by Eryk Salvaggio, visiting lecturer in the College of Liberal Arts, published by Tech Policy Press.
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January 23, 2025
How engineers are working to solve the renewable energy storage problem
Yale Climate Connections speaks with Eric Hittinger, department chair in the Department of Public Policy, about renewable energy storage.
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January 23, 2025
Alm and Fitch awarded NSF grant to study visual prosody in ASL in collaboration with Gallaudet University
Linguists face a resource gap for studying visual prosody and its grammatical and emotional functions in sign languages, and for creating AI systems capable of processing visual prosody. Faculty members affiliated with RIT’s Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science aim to fill that gap through Deaf scientist-centered research.
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January 22, 2025
New research shows AI systems are getting closer to processing information like humans
RIT engineering professor Cory Merkel was one of more than a dozen researchers in neuromorphic computing contributing findings published on Jan. 22 in Nature.
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January 21, 2025
How to improve policing with evidence-based training
Rochester Beacon features an essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability.
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January 21, 2025
Student filmmakers showcase their work on WXXI in the next edition of ‘RIT Shorts’
WXXI continues to spotlight the work of students and alumni from RIT’s School of Film and Animation through RIT Shorts, a biannual short film series.
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January 20, 2025
Here’s how many teens use ChatGPT for homework help and ‘research’ now
New York Post speaks to Pengcheng Shi, associate dean in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences, about the rising use.
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January 20, 2025
3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'
Space.com highlights research led by Joel Kastner, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, showing the 3D structure of the Ring Nebula.
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January 17, 2025
Dialogue on Disability: Local photojournalists and Special Olympians take sports journalism beyond the stats
WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson speaks with Josh Meltzer and Jenn Poggi, associate professors, and Travis LaCoss, fourth-year student in the photojournalism program, about working with Special Olympics athletes to tell their stories in a deeper way.
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January 17, 2025
Industrial Policy: Why is it Criticized and is there a Role for it in the 2020s?
An essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, published by Medium.
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January 17, 2025
Designing a Star Tracker for Astronaut Don Pettit to Use on the ISS
An essay by Ted Kinsman, associate professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, published by PetaPixel.