News

April 26, 2016

Go, Stay, Eat at Imagine RIT

Hospitality students will take Imagine RIT festival goers to places they may have only dreamed about—Dubai, Croatia, Hollywood—without ever leaving the Gordon Field House.
April 25, 2016

Packaging students highlight how the brain ‘shops’

Students in the packaging science program will track where an individual’s eyes go when looking at an array of well-packaged goods as part of their Imagine RIT exhibit May 7.
April 18, 2016

Baja team opens season with top placements

RIT’s Baja Race team placed first overall at the SAE Baja Tennessee event, April 14-17, competing against 100 international collegiate racing teams.
April 18, 2016

Karthik Namasivayam to head hospitality program

Karthik Namasivayam assumes his role as department chair of CAST’s hospitality and tourism management program on Aug. 10. Namasivayam joins RIT from Switzerland.
April 11, 2016

RIT launches pilot composting program

Bright green totes for food waste have been placed around University Commons. The contents will ultimately be taken to an anaerobic digester in Linwood, N.Y.
April 8, 2016

Student credits success to high school donor

Meet Hulbert Kates IV, a fifth-year computer engineering technology student who is one of 117 students named Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars on Thursday.
April 7, 2016

RIT joins Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge

Thirty student teams from RIT will test their puzzle-solving skills in a race against other schools across North America in the annual Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge.
March 29, 2016

National ROTC program celebrates 100th anniversary

RIT’s Army ROTC Tiger Battalion will commemorate the national milestone with a Cadence Run around campus at 6:30 a.m. April 1.
March 25, 2016

RIT celebrates graduate student research

The third annual Graduate Education Week at RIT will be held April 4–8 and feature speakers, a play reading, the new Three Minute Thesis competition and social events.
March 24, 2016

Meet CAST Distinguished Alumnus Robert Jacoby

Robert Jacoby ’77 will be honored during Distinguished Alumni Award Week, April 11-15, at various on-campus events and celebrations.
March 21, 2016

CAST grad drives Baja collegiate competition

Jason Rounds ’00 approached the Society of Automotive Engineers after graduation with a plan to standardize inspections for Baja off-road collegiate racing.
March 21, 2016

Safety top priority for alumna at Lockheed Martin

Patricia Libby Gantt ’11 makes sure that her team is safe on the ground when they are building Lockheed Martin’s high-powered aircraft.