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June 6, 2018
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Vicki Hanson named CEO of world’s largest computing society
Vicki Hanson is retiring from her position as Distinguished Professor at RIT to become CEO of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). -
May 30, 2018
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RIT ranked No. 1 game design school on East Coast
Animation Career Review has again named RIT the top game design school on the East Coast. RIT also ranked second on the list of Top 50 Game Design Schools in the U.S., moving up from third in 2017. -
May 1, 2018
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RIT Dota 2 team wins Grand Championship
RIT is securing its legacy as one of the best colleges in esports after winning its first Collegiate Starleague Dota 2 Grand Finals Championship April 28. The student team bested a bracket of North America’s 32 top universities to take home the $10,000 grand prize. -
April 28, 2018
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RIT graduates future leaders through ROTC programs
Phylicia Matusz and Christopher Tran are two of the nearly 30 students in RIT’s Army and Air Force ROTC programs who are being formally commissioned during commencement weekend. -
April 25, 2018
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App makes museum experience more accessible
NTID is launching a mobile app to be used in its Dyer Arts Center that provides content in various forms, including video in American Sign Language, transcripts and audio and visual descriptions. -
April 20, 2018
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Esports team competes in national championships
A team of RIT students has become one of the best collegiate Dota 2 teams in North America, making it to the finals of two national championships. -
April 19, 2018
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Imagine RIT preview: Serious science in the sky
RIT’s Space Exploration program will launch the High Altitude Balloon during the Imagine RIT festival as part of a mission to map vegetation density and orientation in the Finger Lakes region. -
April 16, 2018
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Imagine RIT preview: Mixing VR, traditional gameplay
Compete against friends as either a virtual reality robot or as resistance fighters at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on April 28. -
April 13, 2018
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RIT students take top awards at Game Dev Challenge
Teams from RIT won first and second place in the student category of the second annual New York State Game Development Challenge, hosted by RIT’s MAGIC Center and sponsored by Empire State Development. -
April 11, 2018
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Students compete in Microsoft Puzzle Challenge
The annual Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge will pit RIT students against more than a thousand representatives from 27 other prestigious universities. Teams each have 10 hours to solve a packet of puzzles that might include anything from crosswords and logic problems to word play and cryptograms. -
April 10, 2018
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RIT experts help make computing accessible
RIT’s student and faculty researchers are working to make technology accessible for all by changing the culture of computing. -
April 5, 2018
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Student Spotlight: Smart apparel helps those with autism
Meet James McGee and Kerri Zalba, two members of a student start-up company that uses wearable technology to help children on the autism spectrum.
