University Communications - Rochester Institute of Technology

Game-changer Stephen Jacobs retires after 30 years

ritnews@rit.edu (Scott Bureau) — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:17:14 EDT

After three decades of teaching, mentoring, and pioneering academic and research programs at RIT, Professor Stephen Jacobs is retiring.

RIT students are inspired to build a more open future

ritnews@rit.edu (Scott Bureau) — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:05:02 EDT

RIT has a long history and culture of academic and extracurricular work in open source. Adrian Edwards hopes to pass his passion on to other students when he graduates in May and starts a job at Red Hat.

Saunders College of Business names Vanden Brul Student Entrepreneurial Award winner

ritnews@rit.edu (Rich Kiley ) — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 18:21:31 EDT

Peter Hogya, a computer science major in RIT’s Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, was honored with the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Student Entrepreneurial Award at last week’s Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award Luncheon at Genesee Valley Club in Rochester.

Open@RIT receives Sloan Foundation grant to continue supporting open work

ritnews@rit.edu (Scott Bureau) — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:05:35 EDT

RIT’s open programs office has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to build external partnerships and continue supporting those doing work in the open community.

Leaders in ‘all things open’ assemble for summit to explore opportunities in open work

ritnews@rit.edu (Scott Bureau) — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:08:58 EDT

The Open Work in Academia Summit will be held Sept. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Rochester, in downtown Rochester, N.Y. The event is hosted by RIT’s open source programs office Open@RIT.

Computing double major juggles school, work, and clubs

ritnews@rit.edu (Jenna Warren) — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:29:57 EDT

Olivia Gallucci is a second-year computing security and computer science double major from Lancaster, Pa., with a minor in free and open source software and free culture. She holds executive-board positions for two clubs, regularly presents research, and has received multiple internship opportunities. Gallucci enjoys sailing and writing about security, open source, and college on her personal website.

Open@RIT Fellowship Program supports faculty and staff open projects

ritnews@rit.edu (Scott Bureau ) — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:00:16 EDT

RIT’s open programs office has established a fellowship program to support faculty and staff with their work in the open community. Twenty-one projects have been selected from across the university for open work in everything from game development to ASL linguistics.

RIT/NTID’s ‘World Around You’ platform chosen for Inclusive Education award

ritnews@rit.edu (Susan Murad) — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:47:38 EST

World Around You, a multilingual platform created by a team at NTID, was selected as the winner of the Inclusive Education award by the mEducation Alliance. The goal of World Around You, or WAY, is to increase global literacy for deaf children by providing greater access to sign languages, early-grade reading materials, vocabulary, reading instruction, and digital games.

Open@RIT receives Sloan Foundation grant to support open work across the university

ritnews@rit.edu (Scott Bureau) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:05:20 EST

RIT’s open programs office has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to measure and strengthen support of the faculty and staff who do work in the open community, including open source software, open data, open hardware, open educational resources, Creative Commons licensed work, open research, and other open work.

Election Day Hackathon encourages people to use open technology for civic engagement

ritnews@rit.edu (Scott Bureau) — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:29:09 EDT

As the 2020 election results come in Nov. 3, civic hackers at RIT want to remind people about the power of technology and how it can be used for good. At RIT’s Election Day Hackathon, students, faculty, staff, and community members will analyze civic problems in the local community, state, and country and propose projects to address them.