José Zagal, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, presented a keynote on Role-Playing Games in Chile at the tri-lingual 10th International Colloquium on Role-Playing Game Studies, July 29-31 in Newark, N.J.

Jie Qiao, associate professor of imaging science, and Cyril Otieno, imaging science Ph.D. candidate, published "Femtosecond-laser direct fabrication of convex microlens arrays in fused silica" in Optical Materials Express. Their research demonstrates a single step femtosecond-laser process for fabricating optical-quality fused silica microlens arrays with sub-nanometer surface roughness, fourfold higher processing efficiency at 515 nm than at 1030 nm, and 96 percent lens-to-lens uniformity, advancing deterministic fabrication of freeform micro-optics for imaging, sensing, and integrated photonics. 

Atia Newman, associate professor of film and animation, and Alissa De Wit-Paul, assistant professor of architecture, presented on the benefits of interdisciplinary teaching at the the AASA/ACSA International Conference in Brisbane, Australia. The presentation applied a Digital Interactive Preservation method used on the historic Campbell House at the Genesee Country Village and Museum.

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Finger Lakes Times speaks to Ebony Miller, director of RIT's Center for Urban Entrepreneurship, about how ROC the Pitch helps entrepreneurs across the Finger Lakes build sustainable businesses.

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Finger Lakes Daily News reports that RIT is among the institutions participating in Empire AI, New York's expanded artificial intelligence consortium, which is providing researchers access to one of the nation's most powerful academic AI supercomputers.

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PetaPixel highlights an RIT-built camera mount that enabled NASA astronaut Don Pettit to capture a striking long-exposure image of the Milky Way from the International Space Station by compensating for the station's orbital motion.