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February 3, 2025
RIT professor forges connections as president of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association
RIT professor Tae (Tom) Oh serves as president of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, where he encourages global collaboration.
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January 31, 2025
RCSD warns community of data breach
Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, speaks to WROC-TV about the data breach.
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January 31, 2025
Expert weighs in on cyberattack exposing 134k RCSD student records
WHAM-TV discussed the breach with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity.
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January 31, 2025
Rochester schools’ data breach
News Radio WHAM 1180 chats with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the Rochester schools’ data breach. (Interview starts at the 30-second mark.)
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January 29, 2025
PowerSchool breach affects some Capital Area Intermediate Unit records; should you freeze your child’s credit?
WHTM-TV speaks to Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the breach.
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January 29, 2025
World’s best cybersecurity students put to the test at RIT pentesting competition
The world’s best cybersecurity students came together at RIT to face-off in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) global finals. The event wrapped up the largest offense-based cybersecurity competition for college students, which is hosted annually by RIT.
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January 28, 2025
William H. Sanders named RIT’s 11th president
The dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering is praised for his research credentials, success in global partnerships and entrepreneurship, and strong student engagement. He starts at RIT July 1.
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January 27, 2025
NSF awards RIT more than $1 million to develop digital media forensics platform
A new RIT project aims to bring order to the chaotic world of digital media forensics. The project in development, led by Endowed Professor of Cybersecurity Matthew Wright, will help combat manipulated media, including deepfakes.
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January 23, 2025
FreezeFest planner encourages students to embrace winter
Since its inception in 2010, FreezeFest has brought students and the RIT community together for an assortment of winter-themed programs and events. Most of the events are not dependent upon snow and, unless mentioned, are free and open to all RIT students.
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January 23, 2025
Alm and Fitch awarded NSF grant to study visual prosody in ASL in collaboration with Gallaudet University
Linguists face a resource gap for studying visual prosody and its grammatical and emotional functions in sign languages, and for creating AI systems capable of processing visual prosody. Faculty members affiliated with RIT’s Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science aim to fill that gap through Deaf scientist-centered research.
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January 21, 2025
RIT Executive MBA degree program among nation’s best as ranked by ‘U.S. News & World Report’
Rochester Institute of Technology has again been recognized for offering one of the best online programs in the nation. The 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings, released this week, listed Saunders College of Business’ online Executive MBA program as No. 11 in the nation for “Best Online MBA Programs.”
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January 20, 2025
Here’s how many teens use ChatGPT for homework help and ‘research’ now
New York Post speaks to Pengcheng Shi, associate dean in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences, about the rising use.