Newsmakers

Highlighting the professional and academic accomplishments of College of Computing and Information Sciences students, faculty, and staff.

Newsmakers are a quick and easy way to acknowledge the professional and academic accomplishments of RIT students, faculty, and staff, such as publishing an article in a scholarly journal, presenting research at a conference, serving on a panel discussion, earning a scholarship, or winning an award. Newsmakers appear in News and Events as well as the "In the News" section on faculty/staff directory profile pages.

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March 2021

  • March 30, 2021

    Konstantinos Papangelis, assistant professor of interactive games and media, received a grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation for “Extending Our Reach: A mHealth Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating in Mexican Immigrant Farmworker Families.” The project aims to cultivate healthy eating habits for local migrant workers through an intervention program and app. Papangelis and an RIT student will work with University of Rochester professors to develop a low fidelity prototype of the app and conduct usability studies.

January 2021

November 2020

  • November 17, 2020

    Stephen Jacobs, director of Open@RIT and professor of interactive games and media, was a guest on the CHAOSS community podcast, where he talked about creating an open source program office at RIT.

  • November 10, 2020

    Matthew Wright, director of research for the Global Cybersecurity Institute, was awarded $200,000 from the Knight Foundation to equip journalists with an effective tool and best practices to detect deepfakes and altered photos and video.

October 2020

  • October 6, 2020

    Stephen Jacobs, professor and director of Open@RIT, hosted a local cohort for the National Day of Civic Hacking on Sept. 13. Kate May, chief performance officer for the City of Rochester, gave a presentation and led the discussion. Other RIT participants included Jessica Lieberman, associate professor of performing arts; Tony Harkin, associate professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences; and Matthew Bernius ’96 (graphic communications).

September 2020

May 2020

  • May 12, 2020

    D.I.V.E., a PC game created by game design and development master’s students Haoyu Guo, Zheyu Zhang, Yiyan Wang, and Jiayi Jiang, took the Grand Prize at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) GameFest 2020, winning $1,000 and hardware courtesy of PubG. D.I.V.E. was also a finalist for the Artistic Excellence award and can be played at https://gmyth.itch.io/dive. Warping Game, a puzzle game created by Christian Eliopoulos, second-year game design and development student, and Ethan Lane, from Rider University, was a finalist for the Technical Excellence award. It can be played at https://blazerboy.itch.io/warping-game.

April 2020