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March 3, 2025
Circuit board campus wins this year’s Imagine RIT poster contest
Third-year illustration major Ava Guarino started working on her submission for the poster contest not long after last year’s festival ended. Some 7,800 votes were cast, and Guarino’s poster was one of the top vote-getters to make the finals. Imagine RIT is April 26.
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March 3, 2025
Saul Bass’ iconic graphic designs are the focus of a new RIT Press book
Bass’ work ranges from the iconic movie poster and title sequences of the 1955 film noir, The Man with the Golden Arm, to familiar corporate logos for the Girl Scouts, United Way, Special Olympics, Exxon, AT&T, and more.
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March 3, 2025
Cybersecurity students compete in national contest at RIT
WHAM-TV highlights the national cybersecurity competition organized by RIT students.
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March 3, 2025
RIT storytellers capture the heart and hustle of Special Olympics athletes
Students from various majors across RIT made a website providing wall-to-wall coverage of the 2025 Special Olympics New York Winter Games. This was the fourth year RIT partnered with Special Olympics to document the events.
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February 28, 2025
RIT introduces esports scholarships
The scholarships recognize students for their competitive video gaming skills and dedication to representing the university at the highest level. Since forming in 2016, RIT Esports has become one of the largest and best collegiate esports programs in the world.
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February 27, 2025
Fischell Institute Black History Month Spotlight: Loryn Johnson
The Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices interviewed Loryn Johnson '20 (biotechnology and molecular biosciences), a neuroscience Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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February 26, 2025
Ph.D. student gets a look into her future as part of astronomical experiment team
Dunn is part of the Tomographic Ionized Carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), a project that is studying the early universe by mapping the emission of ionized carbon from distant galaxies.
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February 25, 2025
Ricky Figueroa honored as the inaugural John Traver Endowed Professor
An electrical engineer turned creative technologist, Ricky Figueroa is invigorated by working at the intersection of technology, the arts, and design. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research has led to success for both Figueroa and the students who pass through his classroom.
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February 24, 2025
Researchers explore how mechanical signals influence viral infections in lungs
The process combines virology and mechanobiology, two distinct areas of study that had not been explored at the same time but might prove to be a way to better understand disease progressions to intervene earlier and improve patient outcomes.
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February 21, 2025
RIT joins statewide Empire AI consortium
RIT has joined New York state’s Empire AI consortium, a partnership of leading public and private universities to advance responsible artificial intelligence.
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February 21, 2025
RIT Ph.D. student and visiting assistant professor driving global sustainability
Since 2008, Thiab has been an active practitioner in the field of sustainable business and contributed to several programs and initiatives focused on sustainable solutions in Jordan and more recently the United States.
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February 20, 2025
Engineering faculty receives DARPA Young Faculty Award honors
Jairo Diaz Amaya, assistant professor of chemical engineering was honored with a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award for his work conducting fundamental research in the fabrication and self-assembly of colloids—key elements of soft matter.