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At the Undergraduate Research Symposium, RIT students share research in artificial intelligence, sustainability, health sciences, and other areas that is helping to solve global challenges.
 

WAVY.com reports that RIT alumnus Terrance Cole ’92 (criminal justice) was recently named as the new U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator.

The Finger Lakes Virtual Museum app is a digital storytelling platform that combines historical content with technology to create immersive visitor experiences.

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

Students from Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) School of Communications were recognized with two prestigious PRism Awards at the annual ceremony hosted by the Rochester chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) last month.

An essay by Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, published by The Conversation.

A collaboration between RIT's Machine Learning and Data Intensive Computing (Mining) Lab and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was featured in LLE in Focus Issue 6. Qi Yu, professor in RIT's School of Information, and computing and information sciences Ph.D. students are bringing artificial intelligence expertise to research in high-energy density (HED) physics.

Eryk Salvaggio, visiting lecturer in the College of Liberal Arts, is featured in an article about the artificial intelligence industry published by Tech Policy Press.

A team of RIT experts has created CTIBench, a new tool that evaluates how much a large language model really knows about cybersecurity. CTIBench is the first and most comprehensive benchmark in the Cyber Threat Intelligence space. The tool is already being used by Google, Cisco, and Trend Micro.

The Washington Post interviews Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, about how to use generative artificial intelligence and when to trust the technology.

RIT’s partnership with Rochester Prep High School celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

James G. Gould, president and co-founder of Alesco Advisors LLC and an RIT alumnus, has been named as the 2025 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, presented by Saunders College of Business.