Alumni News

The Virginian-Pilot features Vitali Servutas '05 (electric engineering), CEO of Premium-PPE.

A team of RIT computer science researchers has created a new programmable switch that significantly reduces lookup time, helping to improve router performance by more than 100 percent.

Buffalo Business First features Beth Kemp '06 (professional and technical communication).

Buffalo Business First features Joseph Burwick '04 (business administration: accounting).

"Alien Xmas," a 40-minute stop-motion animation special directed by Stephen Chiodo '76 (Professional Photographic Illustration), premieres Nov. 20 on Netflix.

RIT enjoyed yet another strong performance this week at the 2020 SMPTE awards, an annual celebration recognizing business, technical, and creative leaders and students who have made substantial contributions to the ongoing advancement of media and entertainment technology.

RIT alumni contributed to a major exhibition at the Rochester Museum & Science Center highlighting Rochester and Haudenosaunee women who pushed for social change. “The Changemakers: Rochester Women Who Changed the World” opens Nov. 20.

Paula Knight, MS (service leadership), program coordinator at Finger Lakes Community College, spoke with 13WHAM about tourism in the Finger Lakes amid the pandemic.

The Democrat and Chronicle features Ward Hartenstein ’83 MFA (ceramics), who is repurposing a homemade musical instrument shaped like a dragon to dispense candy from his porch on Halloween.

Animation Magazine features a new Netflix holiday special by The Chiodo Brothers, including Stephen Chiodo ’76 (professional photographic illustration).

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration released a catalog of results from the first half of its third observing run (O3a), and scientists have detected more than three times as many gravitational waves than the first two runs combined. Several researchers from RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation were heavily involved in analyzing the gravitational waves and understanding their significance.

A one-credit workshop allowed RIT students to examine ways of sharing more accurate depictions of a complex topic. The class culminates in an exhibition that opens Nov. 5.