News Stories

October 30, 2015

First Collegiate Pentesting Competition Nov. 7-8

A new competition at RIT will allow students to attack cybersecurity problems from a different vantage point. Competitors will attack networks, rather than purely defend them.
October 30, 2015

Student interns with senator

Meet Chaitali Chanda, a fourth-year economics and criminal justice major who is interning with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's Rochester office.
October 29, 2015

MAGIC director briefs Congress on video games

Andrew Phelps, director of the MAGIC Center, participated in a briefing for members of the U.S. Congress to stress the vibrancy of the game development industry on Tuesday.
October 29, 2015

RIT appoints director of NanoPower Research Labs

Seth Hubbard, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has been named director of the university's NanoPower Research Laboratories.
October 29, 2015

New metal alloy may yield green cooling technology

A promising new metal alloy system could lead to commercially viable magnetic refrigerants and environmentally friendly cooling techniques, according to RIT research.
October 29, 2015

Five companies graduate from Venture Creations

Venture Creations, RIT’s business incubator, celebrated the launch of five new businesses at a graduation ceremony yesterday.
October 28, 2015

RIT to offer bachelor’s in digital humanities

RIT will offer a new major in digital humanities and social sciences starting Fall 2016. It will combine liberal arts studies with technical courses like computer programming.
October 28, 2015

RIT websites among W3 ‘best of the Web’

For the fourth year in a row, RIT Production Services has been recognized for its website designs, taking one gold and two silver awards in the 2015 W3 design competition.
October 27, 2015

Successful first flight for RIT SPEX group

Sunday morning, the RIT Space Exploration group launched a high-altitude weather balloon that soared higher than 99,000 feet before bursting and landing somewhere in Maine.
October 27, 2015

RIT professor helps preserve languages of Amazonia

Wilson de Lima Silva, assistant professor of linguistics, has received a three-year $160,591 grant to help preserve Siriano and Desano, languages of the Tukanoan family.
October 26, 2015

RIT takes third in national design competition

An interdisciplinary team of RIT students was awarded third place in the national Paperboard Packaging Alliance's 2015 Student Design Challenge.
October 26, 2015

Tiger Tank 2015 names winners

The Tiger Tank competition came to a close at the 12th annual Entrepreneurship conference last Friday. ShoRaq, an intuitive shopping interface, took first place.