News
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July 28, 2023
MAGIC Center partnership with Foundry creates interdisciplinary research opportunities for students
RIT’s MAGIC Center and MAGIC Spell Studios has formed a partnership with Foundry, a Rochester-based company whose mission is to empower institutional miners, staking customers, and blockchain entrepreneurs with the tools they need.
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July 24, 2023
New cybersecurity department and degree names align with evolving industry
Cybersecurity is no longer a buzzword—it’s the dominant industry term. That’s why RIT’s computing security degrees and department have adopted new names. The transition from “computing security” to “cybersecurity” will help RIT align with the ever-changing demands of the cybersecurity industry.
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July 20, 2023
Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains
Open@RIT has joined the Open Policy Alliance. Stephen Jacobs, director of Open@RIT, discusses the new program aimed at supporting a coalition of underrepresented voices from public benefit and charitable foundations.
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July 17, 2023
Why and How We Must Diversify Cybersecurity
Essay by Justin Pelletier, director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center, published by PIT Cases.
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July 17, 2023
Events that never happened could influence the 2024 presidential election – a cybersecurity researcher explains situation deepfakes
Essay by Christopher Schwartz, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Cybersecurity, published by The Conversation.
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July 12, 2023
Protecting yourself from credit card skimmers
WROC-TV talks to Ahmed Hamza, lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, about how consumers can protect themselves against credit card skimmers.
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June 30, 2023
DSS partners with students to defend against security threats
State Magazine features a photo of RIT students during a visit to the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Headquarters.
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June 28, 2023
AT&T, RIT to host game development camp for kids: How to register
The Democrat and Chronicle features an upcoming game development summer camp at RIT.
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June 27, 2023
Game design course immerses students in Japanese video game industry
There was an extra two weeks of class for some RIT students who ended their semester with a trip to Japan. The trip was the culmination of a Japanese Game Industry course last spring, where students learned about the world’s third largest video game market.
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June 26, 2023
Tae Oh named president of Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association
Tae “Tom” Oh, professor in the School of Information, was elected as the 53rd Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) president on April 8.
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June 23, 2023
AT&T and RIT video game development summer camp helps students close digital divide
AT&T is teaming up with RIT to host a video game development program aimed at addressing equality issues in technology education and helping local middle school students impacted by the digital divide.
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June 21, 2023
RIT’s Saunders College of Business will honor Kip Palmer with 2023 Vanden Brul Award
Dwight M. “Kip” Palmer, a fifth-generation CEO of Palmer Food Services and the Palmer Family of Companies, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, given annually to a successful individual or individuals who developed a business that improved the Rochester economy or whose innovative management skills changed the course of an existing business or industry.