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July 9, 2025
Solomon selected to serve as next National Technical Institute for the Deaf president
WXXI reports on incoming NTID President Caroline Solomon.
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July 8, 2025
AI Empowers Novices to Launch Cyberattacks
Communications of the ACM speaks to Ersin Uzun, director of the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, and RIT trustee Kevin Surace ’85 (electrical engineering technology) about AI driven attacks.
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July 8, 2025
Robot Teachers Improve Primary School Learning by 8% Over Human Teachers
EdArabia reports on an RIT Dubai study led by Jinane Mounsef, chair of the electrical engineering and computing sciences department, that shows the positive effects of AI and robotics integration at the elementary-school level.
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July 8, 2025
Caroline M. Solomon named president of RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf
The dean of faculty at Gallaudet University will begin her tenure at RIT/NTID on Aug. 18. Solomon will become the first woman to lead the college in its nearly 60-year history.
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July 8, 2025
Game-changer Stephen Jacobs retires after 30 years
After three decades of teaching, mentoring, and pioneering academic and research programs at RIT, Professor Stephen Jacobs is retiring.
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July 7, 2025
RIT, UR partner on first quantum communication experiment in upstate N.Y.
Spectrum News speaks to Stefan Preble, professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, and microsystems engineering Ph.D. student Vijay Sundaram about the network.
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July 7, 2025
A chatbot can never truly be your friend
An essay by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Boston Globe. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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July 3, 2025
RIT researchers develop AI-based textile recycling system
Resource Recycling discusses RIT's high-speed automated system that disassembles and recycles clothing.
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July 3, 2025
Copper mine or future homes? In the battle for Arizona water, the mine wins
An essay by Joel Helfrich, adjunct faculty in the School of Individualized Study, published by AZ Central.
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July 3, 2025
Visiting student joins RIT robotics lab and gets ‘dream’ experience
Aayush Kulkarni is participating in the International Visiting Research Student Program through RIT Global, which offers students from around the world the opportunity to collaborate with distinguished faculty-researchers from RIT.
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July 2, 2025
Shoppers are trading down to store brands without even realizing it
NBC News speaks to Bruce Myers, professor and program director in the Department of Packaging and Graphic Media Science, about private labeling of packages.
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July 2, 2025
Teaching Students to Build Digital Twins with the Help of Video Game Engines
Brian Tomaszewski, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, wrote an article about using ArcGIS technology to teach students how to create geospatial digital twins. The story was published in the Spring 2025 ArcUser magazine.