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February 24, 2026
What It REALLY Takes to Become an Olympian
Jason Rich, lecturer in the Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition, is featured on the Skin in the Game podcast, speaking about the development of the young athlete and pressures to perform.
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February 24, 2026
Business simulation helps students find their footing
When first-year student Phillip Minardo came to RIT, business wasn't part of his original plan—until a single class changed his mindset by mimicking a real-world workplace experience.
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February 24, 2026
Puppy-in-training attends classes this semester
Spirit, a 9-month-old black Labrador, is on RIT’s campus this semester, receiving his initial training to eventually become a guide dog for the blind.
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February 23, 2026
RIT researcher studies how exercise could reduce the risk of aneurysm rupture
RIT Professor Zhongwang Dou recently received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for a five-year project to detail how blood flow within an aneurysm is affected by movement, and how physical exercise might affect the risk of aneurysm rupture.
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February 23, 2026
Student-athletes combine their passions for sports and design
Three student-athletes majoring in industrial design used their collaborative mindsets to help bring their vision of an 8-foot-tall National Collegiate Athletic Association championship trophy to life.
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February 23, 2026
Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare
Justin Pelletier, a Professor of Practice and director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center, discussed how AI systems are becoming tools for strategic influence in an article for The Conversation.
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February 21, 2026
Town of Brighton hosts Black History Month event
WHAM-TV interviews Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, about a celebration for Black History Month hosted by Brighton, N.Y.
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February 20, 2026
Artificial Intelligence: Why the Biggest Revolution May Be Surprisingly Ordinary
An essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, published by Basis Point Insight.
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February 20, 2026
Christine Banna hand-paints every frame in Moira Smiley’s animated music video ‘Haiku’
Cartoon Brew interviews Christine A. Banna, assistant professor in the School of Film and Animation, about her creative process for animating Moira Smiley's "Haiku" music video.
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February 20, 2026
RIT researchers find that AI chatbots have a truth problem
WXXI speaks to Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about stress testing large language models to see how susceptible they are to caving to faulty information.
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February 20, 2026
Rochester colleges confront 2026 challenges, growth
Rochester Business Journal speaks to RIT President Bill Sanders about his perspective on the issues shaping higher education in the year ahead.
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February 19, 2026
New Study Finds Claude Pushes Back, Gemini and DeepSeek Cave In: How AI Handles Its Own Lies
Republic World reports on RIT’s HAUNT framework, which tests how large language models respond to misinformation.