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A new state-of-the-art golf simulator has been installed in the RIT Student Life Center and will enable students, faculty, staff, and alumni to experience virtual golfing on more than 170 courses around the world.

Khaleej Times profiles RIT graduate Zulfa Rasheed, who is challenging vocational traditions and proving that the worlds of art and engineering can unite in one career path.

Rochester Business Journal reports on Wayfair's gift of roughly $850,000 in server equipment to RIT’s Computer Science House. The donation was facilitated by RIT alum Fred Oettinger, who works at the company.  

A team of faculty and student researchers at RIT are helping create a more accessibility-literate and empathetic software engineering workforce. The researchers, led by Daniel Krutz, assistant professor of software engineering, are developing free online lessons on how to create software that is accessible for those with visual, cognitive, hearing, dexterity, and other disabilities.

Underserved students from the city of Rochester with a strong interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology recently participated in an immersive, weeklong course at RIT to learn the latest about digital currency through its RIT Certified initiative.

Digital Trends discusses early data from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS), a project RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe is co-investigator for.

RIT student Lazar Buntic received a earned a graduate research fellowship through the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology program to develop infrared detectors for next generation telescopes.

The Conversation asks Maureen Ferran, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about the two vaccines that can protect against monkeypox.

The New York Post talks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, about how inflation is impacting summer budgets.

Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by The Conversation.

New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed. The images were taken from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS), led by a scientist at The University of Texas at Austin. Jeyhan Kartaltepe, an associate professor from RIT, is one of 18 co-investigators from 12 institutions along with more than 100 collaborators from the U.S. and nine other countries.

WROC-TV talks to Kaeti Stoss, environmental education specialist in the College of Science, about the On The Canal program.