News Stories
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November 16, 2022
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RIT Players present "Something Rotten!"
Fox Rochester highlights RIT Players' production of Something Rotten!
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November 16, 2022
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ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute pentesters assess messaging app for activists
RIT cybersecurity experts are helping make instant messaging safer for activists in countries controlled by restrictive regimes. Pentesters from RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute performed a security assessment of Partisan Telegram, a customized version of the Telegram messaging app. RIT was selected to conduct the assessment by a nonprofit organization that supports global internet freedom.
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November 15, 2022
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Holiday collection begins for Toys For Tots
The RIT Student Veterans Club is partnering with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program to collect donated, new, unwrapped toys that will be shared with area children who are less fortunate during the holiday season.
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November 15, 2022
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RIT names new members to its board of trustees
RIT has appointed two new members to its board of trustees: Britta MacIntosh ’89 (mechanical engineering) and Richard “Chip” Davis.
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November 15, 2022
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RIT engineering alumnus is part of DART team that changed the speed and path of an asteroid
It is a powerful thing to redirect a 525-foot asteroid with a spacecraft moving at 14,000 mph, and Dmitriy Bekker ’07 BS/MS (computer engineering) was one of the engineers who made it happen.
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November 15, 2022
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RIT executive and community leader Barry Culhane has died
WXXI remembers the late Barry Culhane, retired RIT administrator.
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November 15, 2022
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RIT ranked among the greenest schools in the U.S. by the Princeton Review
WROC-TV talks to Neha Sood, assistant director of campus sustainability, about RIT's latest greenest schools ranking.
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November 15, 2022
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Why can't we recycle more plastic products?
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Matthew Hoffman, associate professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences.
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November 14, 2022
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President Munson takes to WITR airwaves
WITR-FM (89.7) will host RIT President David Munson at 3 p.m. Wednesday, continuing the “Ask Munson” series that is held throughout the academic year.
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November 14, 2022
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Vote now for RIT’s tiger courier for 'Dota 2' game
RIT is vying to be the first university to develop and have a game character accepted into the wildly popular online game Dota 2. The character, or courier, in the form of a tiger, was developed in MAGIC Spell Studios by a team of former RIT students and a faculty adviser.
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November 11, 2022
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Student creates ceramic work at the intersection of technology, the arts, and design
Mikey Gambino, a fifth-year student double majoring in industrial design and ceramics, is combining cutting-edge technology with the ancient art of ceramics.
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November 11, 2022
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Guide to Veterans Day events around Rochester and Saturday’s parade
WHEC-TV reports on RIT's 11th annual Veterans Day Breakfast Nov. 11. The keynote speaker was Chad Van Gorder, the director of RIT’s new Office of Veteran Student Success.
