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  • April 20, 2020

    statue on RIT campus recreated using Minecraft bricks.

    Students use ‘Minecraft’ to recreate a digital RIT campus

    One brick at a time — that’s how members of RIT’s Electronic Gaming Society are building a digital version of the RIT campus in the video game Minecraft. As universities across the country closed their campuses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many students went to Minecraft as a way to stay connected with their schools. The game allows multiple players to collaborate on building structures and designing landscapes, including recreating physical places.

  • April 20, 2020

    Overhead view of open laptop on kitchen table next to mug of coffee, notepad and cell phone.

    RIT announces summer session course offerings in online format

    Registration is open for RIT's first set of summer sessions that will be offered in an online format. The goals are for students to continue making progress toward their degrees, earn additional credit hours to catch up or get ahead, or explore interests outside of their majors.

  • April 15, 2020

    man standing at the geographic south pole with an American flag.

    Alumnus isolated at southern end of the Earth

    Alumnus Christian Rahl ’13 (applied networking and systems administration) knows a little bit about social distancing. He’s stationed at a National Science Foundation site at the South Pole, working as a senior network engineer.

  • April 10, 2020

    convention center turned into make-shift hospital.

    RIT alumnus spearheading field hospitals in New York City

    Dr. Christopher Tanski, who graduated from RIT in 2000, is overseeing every medical professional treating coronavirus patients on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort and at the Javits Convention Center field hospital in New York City. Tanski, who started on April 9, is an attending physician and assistant professor of emergency medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

  • April 6, 2020

    box and cards from the card game Exploding Kittens.

    Weekend card game explodes into company

    Elan Lee ’98 (computer science) decided one day that he no longer wanted to do what he was doing for a living. He quit his job at Microsoft and embarked on a one-year break to figure out what was next. But a few weeks later, he spent a weekend with friends building a card game around the idea of Russian Roulette. Before they knew it, they had created the wildly popular Exploding Kittens.