First hour: Discussing the impact of the Georgia Senate runoff elections
Second hour: Is Rochester becoming a hub for the field of textual science?
We discuss the results of the Georgia Senate runoff elections and the impact they will have on the U.S. Senate. Democrat Raphael Warnock, an Atlanta pastor, defeated Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler. Warnock becomes Georgia's first Black senator, and the eleventh in U.S. history. The second runoff contest between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican incumbent David Perdue has not yet been decided, but Ossoff is leading. If he is victorious, the Senate will be in a 50-50 tie, making Vice President-elect Kamala Harris the tiebreaker. We discuss the impact of the runoff races and the future of the U.S. Senate. Our guests:
- Jeremy Cooney, New York State Senator, 56th District
- Nicole Hushla Re, long-time political consultant current serving as Assemblywoman Sarah Clark’s Chief of Staff
Then in our second hour, students at RIT are making international news for a discovery they made related to medieval manuscripts. The students developed a system that uses ultraviolet-florescence imaging to read text that's invisible to the naked eye. In their process, they discovered lost text on a 15th-century manuscript, revealing it was a palimpsest -- a manuscript on parchment with multiple layers of writing. The discovery and the system the students created will help libraries around the world learn more about medieval texts and collections. The RIT project was a collaboration with the University of Rochester, where faculty and students are also making advancements in textual science. Is Rochester becoming a hub for this kind of work? Our guests discuss the recent project, its impact, and what's next in the field of textual science locally and around the world. Our guests:
- Roger Easton, professor at RIT's Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
- Gregory Heyworth, associate professor of English and Textual Science at the University of Rochester
- Lisa Enochs, second-year student double majoring in motion picture science and imaging science at RIT
- Zoë LaLena, second-year imaging science student at RIT
- Madeline Rose, Take 5 Scholar in English literature, computational linguistics, and classical mythology and ethics at the University of Rochester
