News

May 8, 2017

Grad aims to pave the way for more Native Americans pursuing STEM degrees

Hard work, engagement with his community and dedication to research have defined Brendan John’s time at RIT, and he is poised to take the next step in pursuing his dream of becoming a professor.
May 4, 2017

Students present VR horror game at Imagine RIT

Meet Jaben McCormack, a fifth-year computer science undergraduate student, and Sarathi Hansen, a computer science graduate student, who created a virtual reality horror game that will be on display at Imagine RIT.
May 4, 2017

RIT ranked No. 1 game design school on East Coast

Animation Career Review has named RIT the top game design school on the East Coast. RIT also ranked third on the list of Top 50 Game Design Schools in the U.S.
May 1, 2017

Technology turns sandbox into topographic map

Students from RIT’s Society of Software Engineers will showcase projects they’ve been building throughout the school year, including an augmented reality display that turns a sandbox into an interactive topographical map, during Imagine RIT.
May 1, 2017

Interactive app sheds light on deaf pioneers

“Deaf Pioneers Adventure App Development” takes viewers on an interactive journey alongside Laura Redden Searing, a deaf 19th-century journalist and poet.
April 28, 2017

Two graduate students earn NSF fellowships

Larwan Berke and Brendan John, graduate students in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, each received a three-year, $34,000 annual stipend from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
April 26, 2017

GCCIS faculty and students present research

Faculty and students from RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences will exhibit their work at the GCCIS Research Showcase from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday in the Golisano Hall atrium and auditorium, room 1400. The free event will feature speeches, posters and demos.
April 25, 2017

RIT among hosts of NASA Space Apps Challenge

RIT is one of 200 host sites from around the world for the two-day hackathon. The 2017 NASA International Space Apps Challenge is designed to engage thousands of problem-solvers in working with NASA to create solutions to international and interdisciplinary problems using open-source data.
April 25, 2017

MAGIC Center hosts attorney Nicole Black

Nicole Black, a Rochester attorney and director of Business and Community Relations at MyCase, a web-based law practice management software company, presents “Censored by Traditional Media, Empowered by Social Media” on Wednesday as part of the MAGIC Center Speaker Series.
April 19, 2017

Girls Who Code founder to speak at RIT

Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology, will speak Friday as part of the ACM New York Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
April 17, 2017

Students compete in national cyber defense contest

RIT’s cyber defense team competed with the nation’s top cybersecurity colleges at the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held April 13-15. A team of RIT students also took third-place in the weekend’s Panoply event, a capture-the-flag-style network attack and defense competition.
April 12, 2017

RIT team heads to cyber defense championship

A group of RIT students will take on teams from the country’s top cybersecurity colleges in the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, held April 13–15 in San Antonio.