News
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November 28, 2017
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Andrew Phelps named president of Video Game Alliance
Andrew Phelps, professor, founder and director of RIT’s MAGIC Center, has been named president of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance, a professional association of video game scholars and programs at colleges and universities. -
November 21, 2017
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Online master's degrees make learning accessible
More than 240 students from 13 countries are enrolled in a fully online master's degree program at RIT to open new doors in their careers, improve their salaries and advance their skills. -
November 21, 2017
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Graduate programs offer cutting-edge education
Today, RIT offers 73 master's programs, with 14 new programs added in just the past 10 years. And the number of master's programs is likely to grow even more in the near future. -
November 14, 2017
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Multidisciplinary teams apply problem-solving skills during IdeaLab event
Rochester Institute of Technology students and faculty from various disciplines put their creative problem-solving skills to good use earlier this month. Working collaboratively, they examined challenges faced by client organizations and then presented conceptual solutions to them during a two-day event.
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November 6, 2017
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Teams battle at offensive cybersecurity competition
The nation’s brightest cybersecurity college students traveled to RIT to test their hacking skills in the annual National Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition. -
November 2, 2017
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Student Spotlight: Using technology for humanitarian causes
Meet Pratik Shirish Kulkarni, a second-year computer science major who completed a 13-week co-op for UNICEF International working with data collecting. -
October 24, 2017
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RIT hosts national pentesting competition
Sixty of the nation’s top cybersecurity college students will face off this November at an offensive hacking competition at RIT. -
October 22, 2017
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A new approach to securing networks
RIT’s cybersecurity experts are studying the past, present and future of cybersecurity to gain a better understanding of the role that humans—and their behavior—play in keeping our technology secure. -
October 22, 2017
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Undergraduates Team up with RIT Faculty on Computational Sensing Research
Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant, undergraduate students worked with RIT faculty to gain valuable experience in research projects. -
October 18, 2017
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Four companies graduate from business incubator
Venture Creations, the business incubator at RIT, celebrated the launch of four new businesses: Token, Impact Earth, Optel and Turbett Surgical, which makes a surgical container, shown here, designed to save time in preparing and delivering surgical instruments to the sterile field. -
October 17, 2017
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GCCIS’ Kim Shearer wins Changing Hearts and Minds Award
Kim Shearer, director of operations and college liaison for the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, received the 2017 Changing Hearts and Minds Award for her efforts to enhance diversity among the faculty ranks and further RIT’s overall commitment to diversity. -
October 16, 2017
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‘Heroes: A Video Game Symphony’ set for Oct. 26
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will continue its special video game concert series with “Heroes: A Video Game Symphony,” at 8 p.m. Oct. 26. The show is co-sponsored by RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios and Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement.
