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A team of RIT researchers, led by Professor Linwei Wang, is improving healthcare by creating hybrid AI digital twins of patient’s organs and diseases. The work will lead to real-time, physics-integrated digital twins of the liver and improved AI models that could assist doctors with heart surgery.

City profiles Tanvi Asher '10 MFA (industrial design), whose new wine business blends boutique retail principles with a curated selection of wines and spirits designed to foster discovery, community, and connection.

The Christian Science Monitor examines how colleges are expanding artificial intelligence programs and features commentary from incoming student Remington Ochoa, who chose to pursue AI studies at RIT after seeing the technology as a tool that can augment human skills rather than replace them.

Sports Video Group names Teddy Batkin '26 (motion picture science) to its Students To Watch list, highlighting his work with the RIT Sports Network, contributions to the broadcast infrastructure at Judson Stadium, and his transition to a full-time engineering role with Game Creek Video.

Rochester Beacon examines a new NextCorps innovation report and includes perspective from Ryne Raffaelle, vice president for Research, on Rochester’s strengths in research, patents, and entrepreneurship, while highlighting the need to better support startup growth, commercialization, and venture investment in the region.

Like Indiana Jones, researchers at RIT’s Interaction, Media, and Learning Lab hope to save pieces of history before they disappear so that people can learn from the designs.

Fingerlakes1 highlights an RIT-created dinosaur reconstruction by Andrew Bovenzi '26 (studio arts) that has been selected for display at the Museum of the Earth, showcasing the intersection of art and paleontological science.

Hassan Aziz will join RIT from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he currently serves as dean and professor of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. He starts on Aug. 1. 

Driven by RIT’s commitment to career preparedness and an applied, technology-infused education, Saunders College of Business boasts an undergraduate outcomes rate of 95%, even in the face of a challenging, saturated job market. This rate is based on a four-year rolling average.

Cultured features an essay by artist Christine Sun Kim '02 (applied science and technology) reflecting on disability rights, Deaf culture, and “wrath,” citing the work of Corinna Hill, assistant professor of liberal studies, and discussing historical efforts to assimilate and erase Deaf identity.

Rochester Business Journal reports that Flavia S. Fleischer has been appointed dean of RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, becoming the first Deaf woman to lead the college in its history.

Canary Media highlights research by Eric Hittinger, chair of the Department of Public Policy, showing that vehicle-to-grid technology could provide significant value to electric vehicle owners and the power grid by allowing EV batteries to store and return electricity when needed.