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Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Nov. 13 Edmund Lyon Memorial Lectureship Series event featuring Academy Award-winning actor Troy Kotsur has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.

In his role for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, Clayton Turner oversees executive leadership, strategic planning, and overall management of all technology maturation and demonstration programs for critical space-focused technologies.

Inspired by his own experience of not being able to afford high school portraits in 2020, Virtudes provides this service to help others celebrate their achievements despite financial challenges.

Roar the Vote, an RIT initiative that helps students register to vote and better understand the voting process, is a non-partisan effort led by RIT’s Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, as well as RIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations.

The team is the first to earn the Ramsey Family Innovation Award, which will provide annual support for one student team each year enrolled in the RIT Student Accelerator program.

Six faculty are featured in an exhibition in Venice that showcases the College of Art and Design's breadth of creative disciplines through the unification of sculpture, film, photography, and industrial design. 

Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to join in a day of conversation, panels, and presentations intended to offer the opportunity to engage in intentional and honest dialogue about diversity and inclusion topics.

Students in the museum studies course Critical and Digital Curation used the archives to explore the origin of the RIT tiger mascot in 1955. Their exhibit shines a light on 1963, when RIT students brought a tiger cub to campus, parties, and hockey games.

RIT’s commitment to diversity has been recognized with INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine's Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award and Diversity Champion designation.

The 21st cohort of RIT’s Future Faculty Career Exploration Program was welcomed to campus Sept. 25-28. The program invites exceptional underrepresented researchers and artists to experience what it would be like to be a faculty member at RIT.

WHEC-TV highlights Deaf Culture Awareness Day at Seneca Park Zoo, interviewing RIT students enrolled in the National Technical Institute for the Deaf's (NTID) ASL-English interpretation program who volunteered to interpret for visitors during the event.

WHAM-TV highlights the annual Deaf Culture Night event hosted at Innovative Field, made possible through a partnership with RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID).