Rochester Institute of Technology News

Essay by Stephen Jacobs, professor of interactive games and media and director of Open@RIT, on RIT's Open Programs Office.

Stephanie Chan '20 (3D Digital Design) is a computer graphics generalist at DreamView, which creates dynamic and reusable digital content and experiences for brands of all sizes.

USA Lacrosse Magazine features Larson Sundown, a communications major and attack on the men's lacrosse team, and men's lacrosse head coach Jake Coon.

School Construction News features RIT's Global Cybersecurity Institute.

The Genesee Country Express features the recipients of the E. Philip Saunders Endowed Business Scholarship.

Chemical and Engineering News interviews Asma Sheikh '20 (biomedical sciences) about ASLCore, a group of interpreters and deaf students based out of NTID that has developed advanced ASL signs in several disciplines.

WROC-TV talks to Tony Wong, assistant professor of mathematical sciences, about Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide and surface temperature over hundreds of millions of years.

The Livingston County News features the recipients of the E. Philip Saunders Endowed Business Scholarship.

RIT Air Force ROTC Cadet Hannah Olver received the Silver Valor Award for helping a fellow cadet who had accidentally swallowed a valve-cap from a water bottle.

The First Class Academy, which was first offered last year as a way to help engage and retain students during the pandemic, is an interactive, tuition-free online experience designed to introduce RIT to incoming first-year students.

Blanca Lapizco-Encinas, a professor in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, recently received a National Science Foundation grant for $348,000 to develop a new separation technique to be used in microfluidic devices. 

From her early days in school, Nicole Rosato realized that math was one of her favorite subjects. This past May, Rosato, who is from Paramus, N.J., became the first student to graduate from RIT’s new Ph.D. program in mathematical modeling.