November 18, 2020

RIT to establish public interest technologies group to collaborate with tribal communities

Author: Luke Auburn

A Rochester Institute of Technology faculty member received a grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Challenge grant to support the burgeoning field of public interest technology in tribal communities. Paul Shipman, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, is the principal investigator and will use the $45,000 grant to build a career placement/pipeline model and build a working group at RIT of students and faculty who desire to work in