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June 18, 2025
Experience with documentary filmmaking leads alum to Festival de Cannes
RIT graduate presents at Cannes Film Festival. He says documentary filmmaking courses and the RIT in LA study away program paved the way to his success.
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June 18, 2025
RIT plays big role in new black hole discoveries
RIT scientists were involved in a published paper about new evidence of intermediate-mass black holes, or black holes with masses between 100 and 100,000 times the mass of the sun.
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June 18, 2025
New RIT technologies help minimize global textile waste
RIT-GIS research engineers develop automated system to dismantle used clothing for high-quality textile recycling.
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June 18, 2025
RIT students on the value of student competitions
RIT students Mathew Kiptum Kipruto and Afrid Shaik talk with WhatTheyThink about the value of participating in student chapter presentations at the recent TAGA Next-Gen Conference.
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June 18, 2025
President moves: Two state flagship university now have leaders
University Business reports that James J. Winebrake has been named president of Coastal Carolina University. He previously served as dean of RIT's College of Liberal Arts.
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June 17, 2025
Rochester-area collaboration drives global scientific progress: LLE and RIT look to unlock the secrets of extreme matter using AI/ML
A collaboration between RIT's Machine Learning and Data Intensive Computing (Mining) Lab and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was featured in LLE in Focus Issue 6. Qi Yu, professor in RIT's School of Information, and computing and information sciences Ph.D. students are bringing artificial intelligence expertise to research in high-energy density (HED) physics.
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June 17, 2025
The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI
Eryk Salvaggio, visiting lecturer in the College of Liberal Arts, is featured in an article about the artificial intelligence industry published by Tech Policy Press.
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June 17, 2025
RPL rolls out new library on wheels
Rochester Beacon reports on RPL GO!, a new library vehicle in the Rochester Public Library system. The design was in part created by students in RIT's College of Art and Design.
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June 17, 2025
Emirati, Arab women sharpen AI skills
Gulf Today reports on 70 Emirati and Arab women who graduated from the NOMU Al Ghurair Women in AI program, a 20-week AI certification program, at RIT Dubai.
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June 16, 2025
New Carnegie Classifications affirm RIT’s reputation for science and technology
Changes to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education introduce new criteria for categorizing colleges and universities and link student access and return on investment to institutional excellence.
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June 15, 2025
RIT's Munson on rising costs, lost grants and international students
WXXI News speaks with President David Munson about how RIT is navigating economic headwinds resulting from President Donald Trump's campaign to upend the finances of colleges and universities nationwide.
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June 13, 2025
Students from 70 countries attend the Genius Olympiad
WHAM-TV reports that more than 1,000 students from more than 70 countries and 30 states gathered at RIT for the Genius Olympiad.