News

October 30, 2015

First Collegiate Pentesting Competition Nov. 7-8

A new competition at RIT will allow students to attack cybersecurity problems from a different vantage point. Competitors will attack networks, rather than purely defend them.
October 29, 2015

MAGIC director briefs Congress on video games

Andrew Phelps, director of the MAGIC Center, participated in a briefing for members of the U.S. Congress to stress the vibrancy of the game development industry on Tuesday.
October 27, 2015

Successful first flight for RIT SPEX group

Sunday morning, the RIT Space Exploration group launched a high-altitude weather balloon that soared higher than 99,000 feet before bursting and landing somewhere in Maine.
October 22, 2015

Women in Engineering, Computing open house Nov. 7

Women in Engineering and Women in Computing will house an open house from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 7. Girls in 5th through 9th grades can come learn about STEM opportunities.
October 14, 2015

‘Father of the Internet’ Vint Cerf visits Oct. 16

Vint Cerf, Google’s vice president and chief Internet evangelist, will discuss his ideas for avoiding a digital dark age for the Golisano College’s Dean’s Lecture Series.
October 14, 2015

B. Thomas Golisano archives find home at RIT

The family of entrepreneur and philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano has selected RIT as the home for his personal and professional archives.
October 13, 2015

MAGIC Center welcomes social media expert Oct. 22

Amy Vernon, social media etiquette guru, says the internet is not at fault for cyber-bullying, and will explain why at 1 p.m. Oct. 22 in Student Innovation Hall.
September 23, 2015

RIT among top 10 colleges for getting a tech job

New rankings from StartClass ranked RIT 10th among the top 20 schools for getting a job in the tech industry.
August 31, 2015

Software engineering department names new chair

Naveen Sharma succeeds Professor Jim Vallino as chair of the Department of Software Engineering in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.
August 19, 2015

RIT recognized for computer science, engineering

RIT was ranked among the best computer science and engineering schools in the Northeast and U.S. in the most recent Business Insider ratings.
August 18, 2015

Schwartz to lead GCCIS school

David Schwartz has been named director of the School of Interactive Games and Media.
August 13, 2015

Researchers at RIT seek to solve looping problem

A team of computing security faculty and graduate students is creating Meshed Tree Protocol to make computer networks more reliable, faster and more secure.