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RIT students enrolled in a global public health class spent a weeklong field trip in the Dominican Republic examining healthcare and emergency services.

The inaugural Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies symposium, hosted on March 28, will feature original work by individuals from across the RIT community.

Mastercard speaks to computing and information technologies student Jared Husson about cybersecurity job training for deaf students.

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and The Strong National Museum of Play have again partnered to celebrate National Deaf History Month and the richness of Rochester’s Deaf community with Deaf Day of Play at the museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 29.

Indigenous communities in Kenya and Ecuador have access to machine learning technology to help combat human-wildlife conflict and climate change thanks in part to a new partnership that includes RIT.

The New York Times features the love story of alumnus Jerald Creer and his husband, Kent Williams.

NHK Japan features Kofi Bazzell-Smith, Future Faculty Fellow in the School of Art, as he discusses his work as the first professor of manga practice in the United States.

Students from various majors across RIT made a website providing wall-to-wall coverage of the 2025 Special Olympics New York Winter Games. This was the fourth year RIT partnered with Special Olympics to document the events.

WROC-TV features the work of alumnus Unique Fair-Smith, adjunct professor in the College of Art and Design, which shows students how Black history and Rochester are intertwined.

The Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices interviewed Loryn Johnson '20 (biotechnology and molecular biosciences), a neuroscience Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

The Power Your Potential (PYP) Women’s Conference on Feb. 28, kicking off the upcoming national Women’s History Month in March, serves as a dynamic platform for area businesswomen to gather insights from peers, engage in educational activities, and foster an environment conducive to women’s success in various professional spheres.

WHAM-TV talks about the space created for Black Deaf students