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September 6, 2022
Rochester Game Festival at RIT MAGIC Center Sept. 10
The annual Rochester Game Festival will return on Saturday, Sept. 10, to RIT’s MAGIC Center. More than 30 developers, students, and faculty from Rochester and the western New York region will present their video games and board games for visitors to play.
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August 31, 2022
Best Accredited Colleges: Best Bachelor Degrees in Cybersecurity
RIT’s bachelor’s degree in computing security ranks No. 16 by Best Accredited Colleges.
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August 29, 2022
Record number of Performing Arts Scholars grace RIT
RIT's Performing Arts Scholars are smart and academic achievers, inquisitive and curious, creative and imaginative, driven to succeed, do not accept failure, and are goal oriented.
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August 24, 2022
New name, same curriculum: Humanities, computing, and design program
RIT’s digital humanities and social sciences program has opted for a new name: humanities, computing, and design (HCD). The new name more accurately reflects the skillset graduates leave with, and it is more recognizable among prospective students, their families, and employers.
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August 24, 2022
RIT scientists develop spectral imaging techniques to help museums with conservation efforts
Scientists from RIT are turning studio photography technology on its head to help museums and other cultural heritage institutions preserve historically significant artifacts.
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August 23, 2022
RIT named among the nation’s ‘Best 388 Colleges’
RIT remains one of the nation’s best universities for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education-services company features RIT in the just-published 2023 edition of its book The Best 388 Colleges.
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August 22, 2022
RIT ranks in Gizmodo’s top Degrees of the Future for 2022
RIT has been recognized by Gizmodo, a design, technology, science, and science fiction website, for its offerings related to the top Degrees of the Future for 2022. RIT was named for its specialties in cybersecurity, environmental engineering, game design, and computer graphics.
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August 18, 2022
RIT’s newest Tigers welcomed at convocation
Explore, discover, and get involved were some of the suggestions the newest RIT students received during Thursday’s New Student Convocation, which included welcomes from administrators, their new Student Government president, and even some levity featuring RIT President David Munson who pretended he needed to finish his college education.
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August 8, 2022
RIT students use innovative design through Studio930 to enhance lives
RIT students participated in this summer’s Studio930 design consultancy, an interdisciplinary studio that focuses on the development of assistive healthcare solutions by leveraging the use of technology, art, and design. The 10-week long summer experience concluded with a student exhibition inside RIT’s LiveAbility Lab, a close partnership between RIT and the Al Sigl Community of Agencies.
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August 8, 2022
Alumnus facilitates donation of 200 servers to RIT’s Computer Science House
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.
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August 8, 2022
RIT professor earns NSF CAREER Award to investigate empathy in computing education
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.
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July 29, 2022
Wayfair gifts $850,000 in servers to RIT’s Computer Science House
When RIT’s Computer Science House put out a call for hardware donations last year, Fred Oettinger—an alumnus and staff engineer at Wayfair—got an idea. He knew that Wayfair had just what they needed. Wayfair, one the world’s largest destinations for the home, has gifted RIT’s Computer Science House (CSH) about $850,000 in server equipment.