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August 11, 2025
Cybersecurity student Emery Rios awarded Norman Miles academic excellence award
Emery Rios, a combined accelerated cybersecurity BS/MS student, was selected for the Norman A. Miles Award for Academic Excellence in Study for the 2025-2026 academic year. The award is given to a student who began their studies as a first-year student at RIT and is entering their final year of undergraduate study with the highest grade point average across the university.
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July 31, 2025
RIT surprises middle school campers with free laptops
WROC-TV highlights the free weeklong summer camp, AT&T ROC Jr Game Dev Camp, sponsored by RIT. Campers received new laptops to continue to create video games on their own.
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July 31, 2025
Bright Spot: Surprise Chromebook giveaway empowers young game developers at RIT camp
WHAM-TV showcases the RIT-sponsored AT&T ROC Jr Game Dev Camp where campers learned coding and animation.
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July 31, 2025
RIT surprises middle school students at video game development camp with new Chromebooks
WHEC-TV talks to Naveen Sharma, associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Industry Engagement in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, about the RIT-sponsored AT&T ROC Jr Game Dev Camp, where campers learned to design and code their own games from scratch.
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July 30, 2025
Deepfake voice scams are more sophisticated than ever: How to keep your family safe
Mashable speaks to Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair of RIT's Department of Cybersecurity, about the technology that creates cloned voices.
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July 16, 2025
AI’s antisemitism problem is bigger than Grok
Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, was interviewed by CNN about his research on antisemitism in artificial intelligence models. (This content may require a subscription to view.)
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July 15, 2025
Top 6 Unconventional Career Paths Reshaping the Future of Work
Youth Incorporated includes RIT's School of Interactive Games and Media on the list.
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July 9, 2025
Marco Rubio impersonator contacted officials using AI voice deepfakes – computer security experts explain what they are and how to avoid getting fooled
An essay by Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair, and Christopher Schwartz, research scientist in the Department of Cybersecurity, published by The Conversation.
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July 8, 2025
AI Empowers Novices to Launch Cyberattacks
Communications of the ACM speaks to Ersin Uzun, director of the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, and RIT trustee Kevin Surace ’85 (electrical engineering technology) about AI driven attacks.
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July 8, 2025
Game-changer Stephen Jacobs retires after 30 years
After three decades of teaching, mentoring, and pioneering academic and research programs at RIT, Professor Stephen Jacobs is retiring.
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July 2, 2025
Teaching Students to Build Digital Twins with the Help of Video Game Engines
Brian Tomaszewski, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, wrote an article about using ArcGIS technology to teach students how to create geospatial digital twins. The story was published in the Spring 2025 ArcUser magazine.
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July 1, 2025
What is attack surface management? A guide for organizations
TechTarget speaks to Nidhi Rastogi, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about how attack surface management can help address the growth in the number of potential entry points threat actors might exploit.