News Stories
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March 3, 2025
![Smiling woman with long blonde hair and glasses holds a poster for 'Imagine RIT,' featuring a circuit board design with glowing orange text. She stands against an orange-toned background.]()
Circuit board campus wins this year’s Imagine RIT poster contest
Third-year illustration major Ava Guarino started working on her submission for the poster contest not long after last year’s festival ended. Some 7,800 votes were cast, and Guarino’s poster was one of the top vote-getters to make the finals. Imagine RIT is April 26.
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March 3, 2025
![Book cover for 'Thinking Made Visible: Movement, Narrative, and the Work of Saul Bass' by Jacob A. Dickerson. The left side has a black background with the title in bold white and red text, while the right side features a black-and-white photograph of Saul Bass smiling and gesturing. The cover includes design elements in blue and green.]()
Saul Bass’ iconic graphic designs are the focus of a new RIT Press book
Bass’ work ranges from the iconic movie poster and title sequences of the 1955 film noir, The Man with the Golden Arm, to familiar corporate logos for the Girl Scouts, United Way, Special Olympics, Exxon, AT&T, and more.
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March 3, 2025
![Students in a dimly lit esports or cybersecurity lab, working at computer stations with red LED lighting. A man wearing an 'RIT' hoodie stands behind them.]()
Cybersecurity students compete in national contest at RIT
WHAM-TV highlights the national cybersecurity competition organized by RIT students.
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February 28, 2025
![A detailed painting of a man with glasses, a mustache, and a goatee, gazing intently. The artwork uses warm tones and textured brushstrokes, giving it a lifelike quality. A news station logo appears in the bottom right corner.]()
Local artist celebrates people of color through his work and teaching
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.
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February 28, 2025
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RIT introduces esports scholarships
The scholarships recognize students for their competitive video gaming skills and dedication to representing the university at the highest level. Since forming in 2016, RIT Esports has become one of the largest and best collegiate esports programs in the world.
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February 28, 2025
![A row of boats of various colors and types sitting on a relatively still surface of water, likely at a dock. There are three ducks floating in the water on the right side of the image, and the boats are lined up on the left.]()
Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it
The Conversation published an article by Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, about the importance and impact of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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February 27, 2025
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New executive director named for RIT Certified
Rosalie Clemens, formerly vice president of Workforce Development and Community Engagement for AmeriCOM, has been named executive director of RIT Certified.
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February 27, 2025
![A graphic that shows a square portrait of Loryn Johnson on the right. On the left, text encased in an orange box outline reads, Loryn Johnson '20 (biotechnology and molecular bioscience)]()
Fischell Institute Black History Month Spotlight: Loryn Johnson
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.
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February 27, 2025
![A clip art illustration of a black laptop. On the laptop screen is a big red button with someone's hand reaching out and touching the button, almost pressing it down.]()
Computer Science Under Trump
Communications of the ACM interviewed Assistant Professor Muhammad Salar Khan about the potential impacts the Trump administration may have on the field of computer science.
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February 27, 2025
![New York State shape on a microchip.]()
UR, RIT joining Empire AI Consortium to advance research and collaboration
Rochester Business Journal reports on RIT joining other public and private research institutions in New York in the Empire AI Consortium.
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February 26, 2025
![A man with white hair and glasses shows an old document to a woman wearing glasses and a red cardigan, as they sit at a table with archival materials in a modern office setting.]()
Sculptor Albert Paley gives personal archive to RIT
The Albert Paley Collection in the RIT Archives preserves the legacy of a celebrated working artist, entrepreneur, and educator. Paley is known around the world for his large-scale municipal works, sculptures, gates, architectural pieces, furniture design, and decorative arts.
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February 26, 2025
![A group of six people posing in front of an observatory structure, with a large metal cylinder and equipment behind them.]()
Ph.D. student gets a look into her future as part of astronomical experiment team
Dunn is part of the Tomographic Ionized Carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), a project that is studying the early universe by mapping the emission of ionized carbon from distant galaxies.
