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A team of software engineering students is completing a senior project with KidsOutAndAbout.com, an event curation platform that helps families find local events.

When RIT students create video games, they don’t just mail it in. A team of students recently won the Grand Prize at GameFest 2025 for developing Pelican Post. The game is about a pelican mailman delivering mail to a small town of unique characters.

WROC-TV talks with Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair of RIT's Department of Cybersecurity, about the capabilities of Google VEO 3 and other generative AI video platforms.

Thirteen students have received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, a merit-based scholarship that allows U.S. students to gain proficiency in a variety of languages and cultures.

RIT was ranked No. 5 on the Animation Career Review list of Top 50 Game Design Schools and Colleges in the U.S. and No. 2 New York state.

James G. Gould, president and co-founder of Alesco Advisors LLC and an RIT alumnus, has been named as the 2025 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, presented by Saunders College of Business.

Rochester Business Journal highlights the growth of Token, a smart ring built to prevent cyberattacks, which uses technology developed by Steve Shapiro '04 (human computer interaction) and Melanie Shapiro '08 (MBA).

The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington interviewed Nidhi Rastogi, assistant professor of software engineering, about the evaluation tool CTIBench. Rastogi and a team of computing and information sciences Ph.D. students created the benchmark for evaluating large language models in cyber threat intelligence applications.

TechTarget speaks to Paloma Hamilton, fifth-year mechanical engineering student; Geoff Twardokus, electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student; and Christopher Collison, director of RIT's AI Hub and Initiatives, about the innovative developments featured at Imagine RIT.

Emphasizing the power of a creative mindset over mastering the pursuit of excellence, Astro Teller urged the Class of 2025 to embrace the journey ahead with curiosity, humility, and a willingness to be intentionally foolish.

Spectrum News speaks to Chad Weeden, director of Esports and CyberSecurity Range, and RIT Esports team members Ben Feldstein and Nina Tacheva about the scholarships.

WHTM-TV speaks to Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the payment system security breach.