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Professor S. Jay Yang sees collaboration as the key to combating international cybersecurity threats. That’s why the director of global outreach for RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute is helping lead an alliance of cybersecurity researchers from the U.S., Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.

RIT received funding from the U.S. Department of Education to continue offering three federal TRIO programs for supporting underrepresented students. RIT earned competitive grants anticipated to total more than $4 million over the next five years to support its McNair Scholars, Upward Bound, and Veterans Upward Bound programs.

WalletHub talks to Sandra Rothenberg, professor of management, about mistakes people make when donating to charities.

WROC-TV features the Tait Preserve of RIT.

WHAM-TV talks to Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, about the extreme sides of political parties.

RIT is holding its 11th annual Veterans Day Breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, in the Gordon Field House. It is free and open to the community.

The RIT Graduate School has updated a list of graduate-level electives, first issued last fall, with more than 200 courses—from Ceramics to Applied Machine Learning to Topics in Health and Nutrition—open to graduate students during this academic year.

An early sunset didn’t deter the large crowd gathered at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House and the surrounding neighborhood for the RIT Big Shot on Sunday. The community came together to shine a light on voting rights and equal rights as part of the annual photography project hosted by RIT.

The National Science Foundation has awarded RIT $1.2 million for a cohort of four postdoctoral fellows to conduct STEM discipline-based education research. Each fellow will work with two mentors, encouraging cutting-edge research at the interface of traditional disciplines.

Assistant Professor Nourridine Siewe from RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences helped develop a new mathematical model that could aid doctors and patients assessing different approaches for treating metastatic cancer.

Fox Rochester talks to members of RIT’s Women in Computing organization about their ROCGirl Hacks learn-to-program event.

Essay by Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor of software engineering, published by The Conversation.