News

October 6, 2016

RIT gets grant for nanofabrication equipment

Assistant Professor Jing Zhang received a $305,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire a new etching system for photonic, electronic and bio-device fabrication.
October 3, 2016

Women in Engineering hosts open house Nov. 5

Female engineering students from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering will host an open house for prospective students with hands-on activities, demonstrations and experiments. It is free and open to girls in grades 5-9 and their parents and teachers.
September 27, 2016

RIT named in $4.2 million NSF grant

The Upstate New York Alliance for Entrepreneurial Innovation—a partnership of Cornell University, RIT and University of Rochester—has been awarded $4.2 million from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Program.
September 27, 2016

Hundreds of employers seek students at annual fall Career Fair

Nearly 250 employing organizations and hundreds of recruiter representatives seeking RIT students and graduates are attending the Fall 2016 Career Fair Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Gordon Field House.
September 7, 2016

RIT, RRH working to improve cancer screening

Researchers at RIT and physicians at Rochester Regional Health received a National Science Foundation grant to advance thermal imaging techniques to detect breast cancer.
September 2, 2016

SAAC president prepares for home opener

Meet Natalie Hurd, a fourth-year industrial engineering major, member of the women’s soccer team and president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
August 26, 2016

RIT hosts webinar on engineering programs Sept. 20

Webinar participants will learn about part-time programs in product development, manufacturing, systems engineering, supply chain management and project management.
July 20, 2016

RIT partners with National Taiwan University

The partnership provides students the opportunity to join graduate programs in NTU’s College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and RIT’s KGCOE.
June 22, 2016

Students win award from Apple for game app

The game app, called Dividr, took home an Apple Design Award at the tech giant’s Worldwide Developer Conference on June 13.
June 16, 2016

Microsystems engineering professor honored

David Borkholder, Bausch and Lomb Professor of Microsystems Engineering, was named Distinguished Inventor of the Year by the Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association.
June 13, 2016

RIT finishes second overall at Baja SAE Rochester

RIT Baja closed the 2016 Baja SAE Rochester event finishing second overall among 100 collegiate race teams.
June 2, 2016

RIT establishes Harvey Palmer Professorship

The Harvey Palmer Professorship, established through an endowment made by the Gleason Family Foundation, honors the retiring dean of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering.