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  • February 19, 2026

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    Pioneering type design duo to receive RIT's 2026 Goudy Award

    Georg Seifert (from Germany) and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (Austria), cited for their innovative work with game-changing font editing software Glyphs, will accept RIT's prestigious Goudy Award in April. The honor has long celebrated outstanding practitioners in type design and related fields.

  • February 18, 2026

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    Ph.D. student recognized for work in optics

    Imaging science Ph.D. student Muhammad Akif Qadeer has been awarded the 2025 Harvey M. Pollicove Memorial Scholarship from the Optica Foundation. The award is given to one student each year who shows potential in precision optics manufacturing and lens design.

  • February 17, 2026

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    Honing résumés and mock interviews pave the way to co-ops

    Muhammad Rafikov, a second-year computer science student, is heading to the Spring University-Wide Career Fair on the lookout for his second co-op. During this search, he plans to bring along everything he learned from his first internship last summer at Google.

  • February 13, 2026

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    Student finds co-op success in the transportation industry

    Before coming to RIT, Jacob Brodeur didn’t know what other opportunities were available to him in the urbanism industry. But the skills and experiential learning opportunities he gained by studying humanities, computing, and design offered a new path.

  • February 13, 2026

    a man in profile holds a quantum photonic wafer against a black background.

    Rochester Beacon discusses the impact the funds will have on the further development of an experimental network connecting the campuses, speaking to Stefan Preble, Bausch and Lomb Professor and Ph.D. program director in the Department of Microelectronic Engineering.

  • February 12, 2026

    a man in profile holds a quantum photonic wafer against a black background.

    RIT, URochester to receive $2 million to advance quantum communication network

    RIT and the University of Rochester will receive $2 million in federal funding to further develop the Rochester Quantum Network (RoQNET). The National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing the funding to advance the future of secure quantum communications and to build new capabilities for RoQNET.