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The world’s best cybersecurity students came together at RIT to face-off in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) global finals. The event wrapped up the largest offense-based cybersecurity competition for college students, which is hosted annually by RIT.

William Sanders likes kayaking and is fascinated by the Apollo space program. He has an energetic Labradoodle and listens mostly to jazz. Get to know the personal side of RIT's next president, who starts on July 1.

The search for RIT’s 11th president began last summer, and impressive candidates from across the nation immediately expressed interest in becoming the next leader of the university.

The dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering is praised for his research credentials, success in global partnerships and entrepreneurship, and strong student engagement. He starts at RIT July 1.

A new RIT project aims to bring order to the chaotic world of digital media forensics. The project in development, led by Endowed Professor of Cybersecurity Matthew Wright, will help combat manipulated media, including deepfakes.

The Okanagan Charter, established in 2015, provides a framework for colleges and universities to transform their campuses into health-promoting environments.

The three-day event included topics such as AI applications in healthcare, ethical AI in language models, AI in education, harnessing AI for industry, and others.

Since its inception in 2010, FreezeFest has brought students and the RIT community together for an assortment of winter-themed programs and events. Most of the events are not dependent upon snow and, unless mentioned, are free and open to all RIT students.

Linguists face a resource gap for studying visual prosody and its grammatical and emotional functions in sign languages, and for creating AI systems capable of processing visual prosody. Faculty members affiliated with RIT’s Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science aim to fill that gap through Deaf scientist-centered research.

RIT engineering professor Cory Merkel was one of more than a dozen researchers in neuromorphic computing contributing findings published on Jan. 22 in Nature.

The first pieces of a massive, historic theater pipe organ built more than 90 years ago have been installed at RIT’s music performance theater, which is currently under construction.

WXXI continues to spotlight the work of students and alumni from RIT’s School of Film and Animation through RIT Shorts, a biannual short film series.