Computing and Information Sciences News

Backed by an award from the National Institutes of Health, Assistant Professor Stefan Schulze is using his expertise in the structure and function of proteins to work with a bacterial pathogen commonly associated with antibiotic resistance.

Linwei Wang, professor in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D, has been named the Bruce B. Bates Endowed Professor at RIT.

After arriving on campus for the first time just a few weeks before their audition, Angel Ash landed a major role in Macbeth, showing in the SHED’s Sklarsky Glass Box Theater.

Five months before the first audience is expected in RIT’s new Music Performance Theater, a string quartet from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and students from the RIT Philharmonic Orchestra were the first to take the stage to help conduct acoustic testing.

Researchers will soon use eye-tracking to show how deafness impacts vocabulary knowledge and reading as well as how deaf and hard-of-hearing children, who have historically shown lower than average reading outcomes, develop into highly skilled readers.

Casting aside the daily doomscroll and picking up a slow hobby like hand-stitched embroidery can provide a much-needed brain break for students. It can also open the door for them to give back to the community while expressing themselves.

Two RIT faculty members are building a comprehensive workforce development program in manufacturing for veterans and under-employed individuals to provide the needed skills-based training in electronics assembly.

Over the next three years, the Research Experience for Undergraduates Site in Computational Sensing for Human-centered AI will welcome nine undergraduate students each summer to RIT’s campus. The site is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Climate and Sustainability Leadership Program brings together students across all majors to learn through campus discussions and hands-on experiences with Rochester-area partners. The goal is to create leaders in sustainability.

Ben McManus is gaining firsthand experience in automation and IT in his co-op at Indivisible Partners, a national startup finance company co-founded by Alok Kapoor ’93 (computer science).

A multidisciplinary team of students and faculty continued an RIT tradition of participating in Canstruction Rochester by making EVE from WALL-E out of more than 2,400 canned goods.

Thousands of RIT students searched for co-ops and full-time employment at more than 230 local, regional, and national companies represented at the University-wide Career Fair on Oct. 8.