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DIGITAL ROOTS: NYIT’s legendary
Computer Graphics Lab (CGL) played a key role in the origins of computeranimated film. In November, acclaimed animator Tom Sito spoke to NYIT fine arts students about that history and what’s next for digital cinema. Sito along with CGL members and Pixar President Ed Catmull and co-founder Alvy Ray Smith (pictured above at NYIT in 1976) highlight more of NYIT’s impact in the exhibition “Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York” at the NewYork Historical Society.
Martin Seck
NYIT CENTER FOR SPORTS MEDICINE: A
conference on athletic patient care and an open house featuring former Islanders hockey star Bob Nystrom were among the kick off events to launch the new NYIT Center for Sports Medicine. The center provides care for athletes of all levels, with a particular focus on concussion treatment and management. nyit.edu/sports-medicine
bit.ly/CGL-Exhibit
Steven Spartana
Larry Kamguia (M.A. ’13)
RETURN ON EDUCATION: NYIT
GOOGLE RECRUITER: NYIT computer science students took the first step toward
dream careers when they toured Google’s New York City offices this past October. Recruiters also visited NYIT for a special luncheon with female students (women are still underrepresented in the field) and hosted a session with 50 male and female NYIT students, during which they practiced coding with Google software engineers. nyit.edu/google-trip
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M.B.A. graduates have one of the best salary-to-debt ratios in the country, according to a recent study by startup SoFi. Listing a 2.5 times salary-to-debt ratio (graduates have an average salary of $126,068 and debt of $50,308), the rankings put NYIT’s program at the top of the list, ahead of those at universities including Stanford and Texas A&M. bit.ly/MBA-Rankings