News

March 6, 2015

Students take top award in games showcase

RIT students won first place in the Visual Quality category of the 2015 Intel University Games Showcase for their soon-to-be released video game.
March 5, 2015

Professor creates maps for refugee camp

Brian Tomaszewski traveled to Jordan to look at how geographic information systems and mapping could help in disaster situations at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp.
March 4, 2015

Students publish Splattershmup video game

Fifteen students created and published the video game Splattershmup, being showcased on the expo floor at Game Developers Conference 2015, for a class project.
February 12, 2015

Student video game published on Steam

For the first time, MAGIC Spell Studios has published a student-developed game on Steam, the world’s largest digital game distribution platform.
February 9, 2015

Dean Andrew Sears to attend White House Summit

Andrew Sears, dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, was invited to attend White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection.
February 4, 2015

Graduates create award-winning math search engine

David Stalnaker and Nidhin Pattaniyil created the Tangent search engine, a first-of-its-kind tool that allows people to search documents using formulas and text.
January 7, 2015

Online programs score well in national rankings

The 2015 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings recognized RIT for three of its online graduate programs and its online bachelor’s degree programs.
December 23, 2014

RIT to establish cybersecurity scholarship program

Responding to the national demand for workers highly trained in cybersecurity, RIT will use a National Science Foundation grant to establish the scholarship program.
December 16, 2014

Professor launches Jewish Play Project

The Jewish Play Project is a new initiative that explores the role of Jewish designers, entrepreneurs and inventors in the play industries.
November 18, 2014

Group aims to bridge gender gap in tech fields

Kristen Curtze ’09, ’11 and Liz Gombert ’09 started the Rochester chapter of Girl Develop It, which aims to help adults learn Web and software development.
October 23, 2014

Lecture reveals secrets to video game writing

Industry insiders Richard Dansky and Lee Sheldon present “More Than Words Can Say: How Writing for Commercial and Applied Games Really Works” on Oct. 28.
October 14, 2014

RIT to showcase computing accessibility work

RIT is sponsoring the ASSETS conference, which highlights computing and information technologies that benefit older adults and people with disabilities.