News Stories

WROC-TV speaks with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer of cybersecurity at RIT, about what caused the Nov. 12 global Microsoft outage and how it could be resolved.

The competition asked students to step into the role of a Microsoft Cloud and AI Specialist for a day and work alongside professionals from Microsoft, Mastercard, EY, and GitHub. Out of more than 1,000 applications, the RIT team was selected as one of 17 finalists and won first place.

RIT alumni are building professions in fields that were unthinkable a generation ago. Meet eight alumni, from across the university, who are shaping new careers.

RIT President Bill Sanders will discuss a wide range of topics live in the WITR studio in the Student Alumni Union on Nov. 17.

Professor Karin Wuertz-Kozak is developing gene and cell therapies that may be the next step in tissue regeneration, a type of noninvasive treatment that could control the molecular mechanisms contributing to pain, mostly inflammation.

Multidisciplinary student teams gained co-op and internship experience working on projects for Rochester-area organizations serving people with disabilities.

What began as a photography project became a community movement. Led by an RIT assistant professor and powered by a network of collaborators, the GoodPhone Project is restoring a simple but essential service.

José Zagal, director of RIT's School of Interactive Games and Media, expects the latest installment of Grand Theft Auto to draw heavily from the bizarre Florida headlines that have fueled the popular internet meme for years.

RIT graduate and undergraduate students helped Associate Professor Jie Qiao turn a research vision more than a decade in the making into a breakthrough that could change how advanced optical components are made.

Rochester Business Journal profiles alumnus Nick Myers ’15 (MBA), founder of Phoenix Tailings, whose company plans to build a $375 million rare earth processing facility and is collaborating with RIT on workforce development initiatives.

Spectrum News speaks with Ed Hensel, associate dean for graduate programs in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering, about a $4.8 million FDA-funded study using new technology to monitor real-world vaping behaviors and better understand how e-cigarette users consume nicotine.

The Conversation features an essay by Suzanne Peck, lecturer of art at RIT, exploring the physics and chemistry behind glassblowing and how artists use heat, gravity, and material properties to shape molten glass into functional and artistic objects.