Alumni News

August 4, 2014

Volunteers of the Year see results of their effort

Lisa and Patrick Talty are RIT’s Volunteers of the Year for 2014 and will receive the award during the Presidents’ Alumni Ball on Oct. 17 during Brick City Homecoming.
August 4, 2014

Family ties pull graduate into restaurant business

Thomas Provo has emulated and updated the family diner model with his Charred American Bar + Grill, which opened a little more than a year ago in Mount Morris.
July 28, 2014

RIT Press publishes biography on Vignellis

Through research and personal interviews, Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision documents the Vignellis’ minimalist and structured design method.
July 24, 2014

Professor chronicles 127 years of printing history

Frank Romano’s History of the Linotype Company, published by RIT Press, chronicles the history of one of the landmark typesetting and printing industries.
July 22, 2014

RIT hosts Undergraduate Research Symposium Aug. 8

More than 180 undergraduate students will showcase their projects at the 23rd annual RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday at the RIT Inn and Conference Center.
July 16, 2014

RIT announces lineup for 2014 Fringe Festival

RIT President Bill Destler on the banjo and his spouse, vocalist Rebecca Johnson, are one of the many acts in this year’s First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival Sept. 18–27.
July 14, 2014

San Francisco opens its Golden Gate to RIT grads

About 2,000 alumni call the Bay Area home and that number is steadily growing. No surprise: The region is a worldwide epicenter for innovation and technology.
July 10, 2014

Gueldenpfennigs receive prestigious NRS Award

Klaus and Brigitte Gueldenpfennig, top executives at REDCOM Laboratories Inc., will receive the 2014 NRS Award, the highest honor given by RIT’s Nathaniel Rochester Society.
June 4, 2014

Datto Inc. joins START-UP NY program

RIT applied its START-UP NY certification to entice one of its alumni to open a New York office of his highly successful Connecticut-based company.
June 2, 2014

Top stories and videos for May

News about Imagine RIT and commencement was most popular last month. Check out all of May’s top stories and videos.
May 29, 2014

Alumni donor challenge: ‘Rally for RIT’

Rally for RIT—taking place June 1–12—is a challenge to alumni to make 1,829 gifts to RIT in 12 days to commemorate RIT’s founding on June 12, 1829.
May 22, 2014

RIT names interim dean of Saunders College

Jacqueline Mozrall, professor and senior associate dean of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, will lead Saunders College while a national search is underway.