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Sports Video Group News interviews Rachel Conidaris, producer/director/editor in RIT's University Production Services, at the 2025 SVG College Summit. She shares how her team supports sports programming on campus.

Supported by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, COSMOS-Web—the largest James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 1 observation program—has made its full data set publicly available.

13WHAM interviews alumnus Jayden Neal '25 (robotics and manufacturing engineering technology) about his family's startup company, UdderWays, and the Vortex, a new udder washing and sterilization system created by Neal.

The campus may seem quiet, but RIT Facilities Management Services is in high gear, racing to complete over 100 construction projects before students return in late August.

Rochester Business Journal features comments from Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, in an article about the recent layoff of around 100 workers at a local GM plant.

Sarah Bono '14 (graphic design) oversees the product design for ESPN’s app, website, and living room devices like TVs and gaming consoles. Wherever ESPN content is found digitally, Bono and her team likely had a hand in the creative process. 

The Washington Post interviews Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, about how to use generative artificial intelligence and when to trust the technology.

A team of software engineering students is completing a senior project with KidsOutAndAbout.com, an event curation platform that helps families find local events.

Next Big Future features comments from Grover Swartzlander, Professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, when discussing a cost breakthrough in producing laser pushed sails. 

More than two dozen students from RIT's visual communication design MFA program had creative work selected for the Graphis New Talent Awards 2025, a juried global exhibition of the best and boldest student work in categories of Advertising, Design, Film/Video, Photography, and Print. In total, the students and recent graduates captured 44 awards.

After 39 years of teaching in RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Professor Michael Peres looks toward retirement and fondly recalls the memories he’s made on campus.

Robert Pearson helped make history when RIT began its microelectronic engineering program in the early 1980s. An RIT alumnus of the electrical engineering program and MicroE’s first faculty hire, Pearson reflected on some of that history—and his place in it—before retiring this summer after more than 40 years.