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Jared Lyon ’01 (information technology), a senior web developer/programmer in RIT’s Marketing and Communications division, is on one of 16 teams vying for a $100,000 top prize on Domino Masters, Wednesday at 9 p.m. on FOX.

Animation Career Review has again named RIT one of the top game design universities in the country. RIT ranked No. 5 on the list of Top 50 Game Design Schools and Colleges in the U.S. and No. 2 in New York state.

RIT students planted trees in Louisiana, revitalized farms and greenhouses in West Virginia, and repaired hiking trails in Georgia and Virginia as projects during this year’s Alternative Break.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced fiscal year 2022 funding he secured that will revitalize Rochester and the Finger Lakes region. Sen. Schumer highlighted significant funding in the amount of $88.5 million that NTID received in the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill, a $7 million increase over fiscal year 2021, with $3 million of that increase going toward NTID’s Regional STEM Center efforts.

Leaf Corcoran ’11 (computer science), who founded itch.io—an online marketplace for indie game developers in 2014—is one of the key organizers behind an online campaign that has raised more than $5.6 million to benefit the people of Ukraine.

The Conversation highlights an essay by Justin Pelletier, director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center.

WHAM-TV talks to Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer of computing security, about a security issue with FaceTime.

WXXI talks to Ersin Uzun, the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the RIT ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

WHEC-TV reports on ESL Federal Credit Union's $3 million commitment to name the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

Spectrum News reports on ESL Federal Credit Union's $3 million commitment to name the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

WHAM-TV talks to Ersin Uzun, the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the RIT ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, and Justin Pelletier, director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center, about cyber hygiene and what RIT students are learning about cybersecurity.

RIT’s world-class home for cybersecurity has a new name. On March 8, RIT and ESL Federal Credit Union jointly announced an exclusive naming rights partnership for the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT.