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September 1, 2021
RIT named among the nation’s ‘Best 387 Colleges’
RIT is considered one of the nation’s best universities for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education-services company features RIT in the just-published 2022 edition of its book The Best 387 Colleges. RIT was also listed fourth in the Top 50 Game Design: Undergraduate category.
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September 1, 2021
Students, alumni honored in motion design competition
Designers from various College of Art and Design programs, as well as RIT developers, created projects that were recognized in the biennial MODE Fest.
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August 30, 2021
Ex-CIA says no more 9/11-style attacks, worry about cybersecurity instead
WROC-TV talks to Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, about potential targets for cyber criminals.
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August 27, 2021
Rochester's Coolest Spaces: RIT Cyber Range and Training Center
The Rochester Business Journal features RIT's Cyber Range and Training Center as one of Rochester's Coolest Spaces.
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August 25, 2021
CS Advisor to serve as a mentor in the NACADA's Graduate & Professional Studies Mentoring Program
Cindy Wolfer, an advisor for the Master's program for the Department of Computer Science, was selected to serve as a mentor for the NACADA's Graduate & Professional Studies Mentoring program.
Cindy was also featured in the August 2021 addition of the NACADA newsletter:
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August 20, 2021
Progress on track despite pandemic, Munson says
Students, faculty, and staff are starting a new year during a continuing global pandemic. But that’s not stopping the momentum of student success, research, fundraising, and building projects designed to make RIT even better. That was just part of the message RIT President David Munson told the university community this morning at his annual President’s Address.
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August 18, 2021
Dreams, hard work, and success await new students
A record number of first-year students Wednesday made their way to the Gordon Field House and Activities Center to cheers and welcomes from faculty, staff, and members of the RIT Pep Band during the annual Tiger Walk and New Student Convocation.
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August 18, 2021
NIH recognizes RIT for enhancing faculty gender diversity in biomedical and behavioral science
The National Institutes of Health has awarded RIT the NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity in Biomedical and Behavioral Science. The prize went to 10 institutions that have acted to effect systemic change in gender diversity and equity among faculty members within their biomedical and behavioral science departments, centers, or divisions.
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August 12, 2021
RIT sustainability professor will lead NSF grant studying data privacy on home devices
The three-year study, led by Eric Williams, a professor in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, will look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transition toward increased telework and mobile working and resulting implications on data security and e-waste.
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July 31, 2021
How Microsoft’s AI For Accessibility Is Addressing The Issue Of Data Desert
Analytics India Magazine mentions the RIT and NTID developed TigerChat app, aimed at helping improve communication for students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
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July 30, 2021
RIT’s Saunders College creating online life sciences MBA
Rochester Business Journal announces that RIT’s Saunders College of Business will use a grant of up to $500,000 from Empire State Development to establish a new online life sciences executive MBA entrepreneurship program.
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July 29, 2021
RIT’s Saunders College awarded $500,000 to establish life science Executive MBA entrepreneurship program
Saunders College of Business has been awarded a grant of up to $500,000 to establish an online life sciences Executive MBA entrepreneurship program. The new degree will be formed in partnership with RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, College of Science, and Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.