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The Creating a Safe Environment newsletter talks to Stephanie Godleski, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, about how parents can establish a strong relationship with their adolescent children.

New guidance was issued last week that permits federal contractors to extend the deadline for employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. As a result of this guidance, RIT has extended its deadline to January 4, 2022. This means the last day employees can receive either the single-dose vaccine (Johnson & Johnson) or their second dose of a two-dose regimen (Pfizer or Moderna) is Tuesday, December 21, 2021.

The RIT Archives and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection have relocated within Wallace Library to accommodate construction of the Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED).  

The Rochester Beacon features Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, and his solo exhibition in the main galleries at The George Eastman Museum.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration unveiled several studies that shed important new light on the nature of gravitational waves. They include a “census” of gravitational wave events to date and a new catalog of results from the second half of its third observing run.

To help bridge new technology with current health care practices, organizations are recognizing the need to hire more health informatics professionals than ever. In an effort to help more qualified people step into this field, RIT has revised its health informatics master’s degree program and partnered with Rochester Regional Health.

Power has been restored to the buildings affected by the outage.

RIT Facilities Management Services (FMS) personnel and outside contractors continue to work on underground cable lines. Power will remain out for the following buildings until approximately 7 p.m. tonight, Nov. 5.

In order to resolve the recent power outage, RIT Facilities Management Services personnel and outside contractors plan to cut power today (Friday, Nov. 5) to several buildings.

The Rochester Beacon talks to David Munson, president of RIT, about the construction projects happening on campus.

Connecticut residents are heading to their local libraries for pro bono legal assistance through a new program called Lawyers in Libraries, founded by RIT alumnus Kyle LaBuff ’06 (psychology). 

Though he graduated with a computer science degree, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad ’06 spent much of his time at RIT in the College of Liberal Arts. He is a firm believer that inserting humanities and the liberal arts into science and technology curricula is imperative. Ahmad will return to RIT Nov. 4 as this fall’s Stan McKenzie Salon speaker for a virtual conversation with his former professor, Evan Selinger.