Tiger's Tale

Imagine RIT

What do space exploration, Japanese drumming, and a human hamster wheel have in common? They are part of this year’s Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival, sponsored by Rochester Regional Health. This showcase, free and open to the public, returns to an in-person event on April 23, with more than 250 exhibits lined up. New this year is a Technology, the Arts, and Design competition for students, vying for a $5,000 prize! A one-hour broadcast featuring some of the exhibits in the Gordon Field House can be seen at 10 a.m. that day on RIT's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RITfb or on 13WHAM’s Facebook page. We hope you can join us in-person, or online wherever you are, to see how RIT is shaping the future and improving the world through creativity and innovation.

Exciting Alumni
Events and News

Men's Lacrosse Alumni Social April 8, 6 p.m. Eastern

RIT Men's Lacrosse Post-game April 9, 5 p.m. Eastern

Alumni Trivia Night @ Blue Toad Hard Cider
April 11, 6:30 p.m. Eastern

HireNewYork Multi-University Alumni Career Fair

April 14, 11 a.m.
15 E. 27th St., NYC
Prince George Ballroom

Program and Lunch Honoring Dr. Alan Nye
April 23, 11 a.m. Eastern

Hot Wheelz 10th Anniversary
April 24, 10 a.m. Eastern

Attention Golden Circle & Classes of 1970, 1971, & 1972 Alumni!

RIT alum-supported Bundle for Ukraine raises more than $5.6 million in four days

RIT alum named FIRST Robotics Volunteer of the Year for second time

Saunders College of Business Award

RIT’s College of Liberal Arts (CLA) began the academic year under new leadership.

ESL jointly announces exclusive naming rights partnership for ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT.

Have you met
these difference makers?

Read about Kimeley Shearer BS ’12, Director of Operations, Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at RIT.

Read about Twyla J. Cummings, Associate Provost and Dean, RIT Graduate School at RIT.

Read about Hiroko Yamashita, Professor, Japanese Track Advisor of BS in Applied Modern Language & Culture, Arabic/Portuguese/Russian language coordinator at RIT.

Read about Hiroko Yamashita, Professor, Japanese Track Advisor of BS in Applied Modern Language & Culture, Arabic/Portuguese/Russian language coordinator at RIT.

RIT College News

• College of Art and Design

• College of Engineering Technology

• College of Health Sciences and Technology

• College of Liberal Arts

• College of Science

• Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

• RIT Graduate School

• National Technical Institute for the Deaf

• Kate Gleason College of Engineering

• Saunders College of Business

• School of Individualized Study

ROAR Day

Calling all Tigers! ROAR Day, RIT’s annual giving day, is April 21. On campus, our students will have the opportunity to participate in some ROAR Day activities. We invite you, our alumni, to join the campus community in making your annual gift to RIT on ROAR Day. When you roar for RIT, you are supporting a 16 years-long tradition of giving back. Your gifts to RIT support scholarships, student life, academics, athletics, performing arts, research, diversity, entrepreneurship and so much more. Tigers roar and we’re counting on you to roar for RIT on April 21. Make your ROAR Day gift online and if you make a minimum online gift of $50, you’ll receive an RIT beach towel (some restrictions apply, see the website for details). Save the date of April 21 and ROAR for RIT!

Class Notes

Jerlyn O’Donnell BFA '07 was invited to serve on the The Board of Directors of The One Club for Creativity as a member of the Cultural Driver Jury of The One Show 2022.

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Chris Alice Kratzer BS ’19 published a new book, The Social Wasps of North America.

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