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13 WHAM features RIT's video game development camp where middle school-aged campers received their own laptop computers.

Rochester Beacon spotlights RIT alumnus Bob Moore '91 (computer science), whose company, MegazoneCloud, is bringing its U.S. headquarters to Perinton, N.Y., while expanding opportunities for RIT students and graduates through its existing partnership with the university.

RIT is hosting four Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program sites this summer, which are designed for students to develop a passion for research and receive guidance for pursuing graduate careers. The university has a longstanding history hosting REU sites, which are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation.

He most recently co-authored Seeing Red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy (MIT Press 2024) and co-edited Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons (MIT Press 2024) and The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies (Routledge 2024).

The $24 million gift supports several strategic priorities, including the creation of a Harris-Pratt Directorship for the university's new artificial intelligence institute expected to launch in early 2027, expanded scholarship support, and strengthened endowments for three distinguished professorships.

More than 1,800 student-engineers from universities in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Mexico designed and built off-road vehicles for the Baja SAE New York competition.

WHEC-TV reports on a data breach involving a former Rochester Regional Health vendor and includes cybersecurity guidance from Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer of cybersecurity.

A team of RIT researchers, led by Professor Linwei Wang, is improving healthcare by creating hybrid AI digital twins of patient’s organs and diseases. The work will lead to real-time, physics-integrated digital twins of the liver and improved AI models that could assist doctors with heart surgery.

The Christian Science Monitor examines how colleges are expanding artificial intelligence programs and features commentary from incoming student Remington Ochoa, who chose to pursue AI studies at RIT after seeing the technology as a tool that can augment human skills rather than replace them.

Like Indiana Jones, researchers at RIT’s Interaction, Media, and Learning Lab hope to save pieces of history before they disappear so that people can learn from the designs.

Inside Higher Ed speaks to Ben Woelk, governance, awareness, and training manager, on the importance of cybersecurity education for students, highlighting RIT’s efforts to prepare students for threats such as credential theft, job scams, and visa-related fraud.

The Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio, interviewed Christopher Schwartz, research scientist in the Department of Cybersecurity, about Anthropic’s recent call to slow or halt AI development if serious risks emerge, alongside the Trump administration’s executive order highlighting AI-related national security concerns. (This content is in Spanish and will require a subscription to read.)