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May 29, 2025
RIT student video game creations take top prizes at GameFest 2025
When RIT students create video games, they don’t just mail it in. A team of students recently won the Grand Prize at GameFest 2025 for developing Pelican Post. The game is about a pelican mailman delivering mail to a small town of unique characters.
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May 29, 2025
The 2025 Trailblazers in Higher Education
City & State featured Vanessa Herman, vice president for RIT Government and Community Relations, among notable leaders at colleges and universities in New York who are giving students a leg up and getting them to broaden their horizons.
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May 28, 2025
Separating the art from the artist
Thomas Warfield, director of dance and professor of practice at NTID's Department for Performing Arts, appeared on WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson to discuss consumer's relationships with artists and their creative work, and whether one can truly separate the art from the artist.
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May 28, 2025
AI expert: ‘Use common sense’ as generative AI videos become more realistic
WROC-TV talks with Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair of RIT's Department of Cybersecurity, about the capabilities of Google VEO 3 and other generative AI video platforms.
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May 27, 2025
Record number of RIT students earn study abroad scholarships
Thirteen students have received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, a merit-based scholarship that allows U.S. students to gain proficiency in a variety of languages and cultures.
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May 27, 2025
Thirteen seniors at partner high school headed to RIT
RIT’s partnership with Rochester Prep High School celebrated its 10-year anniversary.
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May 27, 2025
RIT named a top 5 university to study game design
RIT was ranked No. 5 on the Animation Career Review list of Top 50 Game Design Schools and Colleges in the U.S. and No. 2 New York state.
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May 26, 2025
We used AI for retirement planning advice and were surprised by what we found
Market Watch talks with James Mallory, professor at NTID, about how people could use artificial intelligence to handle complex financial calculations that previously required extensive spreadsheet work.
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May 26, 2025
He Went to Minneapolis and Never Really Left
Times Insider, a behind-the-scenes series published by The New York Times, interviews Assistant Professor Joshua Rashaad McFadden about his coverage of the protests in Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd; and how he's continued his coverage over the last five years.
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May 24, 2025
Rochester Prep celebrates college acceptances, $3.2M in scholarships
WROC-TV reports that all 100 students in Rochester Prep's graduating class will attend college, with some graduates heading to RIT.
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May 23, 2025
Global South Needs to Lower Its Guard On GM Crops
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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May 22, 2025
Habitat loss and climate change make it tough to be an amphibian. Some humans are helping
An article co-authored by photojournalism student Maryel Pryce, published by The Associated Press, discussing how amphibians in New York are facing significant threats from habitat loss due to development and the effects of climate change.