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The two-week trip was the culmination of the Japanese Game Industry course, where students learned about the world’s third largest video game market. RIT students immersed themselves in the culture, participated in a game jam with Japanese students, and visited a major Japanese game studio.

Open@RIT has joined the Open Policy Alliance. Stephen Jacobs, director of Open@RIT, discusses the new program aimed at supporting a coalition of underrepresented voices from public benefit and charitable foundations.

There was an extra two weeks of class for some RIT students who ended their semester with a trip to Japan. The trip was the culmination of a Japanese Game Industry course last spring, where students learned about the world’s third largest video game market.

RIT faculty members, who led research initiatives as principal investigators, were honored at a reception on March 21 to celebrate the individuals who helped the university reach record awards surpassing $92 million and place among the top private research universities in the country.

Global Toy News talks to Stephen Jacobs, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, about Jewish history in the toy and game industry.

Steve Jacobs, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, wrote a blog post for The Strong Museum about the Jewish history of the toy and game industry.

RIT students, faculty, and staff will contribute music, dance, comedy, poetry, photojournalism, and more during the 11th annual Rochester Fringe Festival, which begins Sept. 13 and continues through Sept. 24 in downtown Rochester.

RIT’s open programs office has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to build external partnerships and continue supporting those doing work in the open community.

The Open Work in Academia Summit will be held Sept. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Rochester, in downtown Rochester, N.Y. The event is hosted by RIT’s open source programs office Open@RIT.

Essay by Stephen Jacobs, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media and director of Open@RIT, published by The Conversation.

WXXI talks to Kirsten Feigel ’15 (museum studies), a cataloguer for Strong National Museum of Play, and Stephen Jacobs, professor of interactive games and media.

World Around You, a multilingual platform created by a team at NTID, is a Zero Project 2022 award recipient for its work to improve accessibility. The platform is one of only 76 awardees from 35 countries for the Innovative Practices and Policies prizes.