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  • February 16, 2017

    Portrait of Person

    Student displays photo work from Kosovo

    Meet Daniel Vasta, a third-year photojournalism major and one of a handful of RIT students who traveled to Kosovo last summer to pursue documentary projects as part of a study abroad program.

  • February 3, 2017

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    SG supports those affected by immigration policy

    RIT’s Student Government passed a resolution 23 to 1 on Friday in support of students, faculty and staff from seven countries whose citizens have temporarily been restricted from entering the United States by executive order of President Donald Trump on Jan. 27.

  • February 3, 2017

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    Three named international education chairs

    Saunders College of Business Professor Robert Barbato, Associate Professor Michael Palanski and Associate Professor Zhi Tang were named the Paul and Francena Miller Chairs in International Education for the 2017-2018 academic year.

  • February 3, 2017

    People gathered in front of "Welcome to Mugombwa Refugee Camp"

    Team spends winter break helping refugees in Rwanda

    Six RIT students and a professor spent winter break collecting GPS data points and conducting economic surveys for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at a refugee camp in Rwanda. The team will use the data to create maps to help improve the lives of refugees and camp organizers.

  • January 30, 2017

    Protecting interests of international community

    U.S. President Donald Trump issued several executive orders pertaining to immigration on Friday. These orders directly and immediately impact members of the RIT community. Campus leadership is reviewing the details of the order and is responding to help students and faculty in need.

  • January 27, 2017

    People gathered for picture in classroom

    RIT student leaders converge in Dubrovnik

    Student Government leaders from RIT’s campuses in Dubai, Dubrovnik, Kosovo, Rochester and Zagreb met in Dubrovnik Jan. 16–19 for the Student Government Global Consortium.

  • January 25, 2017

    Professor posing for camera in chair

    David C. Munson Jr. named RIT’s 10th president

    David C. Munson Jr. was introduced to the community today as Rochester Institute of Technology’s 10th president. Munson, who will assume RIT’s top post July 1, was introduced by RIT Board Chair Christine Whitman at a community-wide event this morning in the Gordon Field House.

  • January 13, 2017

    Hands making a cross with the New York City Skyline

    RIT to expand student anti-terrorism initiative

    It’s Time: ExOut Extremism, an online initiative to combat violent extremism that started as a classroom assignment, has been awarded $149,000 from the Department of Homeland Security.

  • January 6, 2017

    Two portraits side by side

    RIT seeks partnership with Moscow State University

    A contingent from the College of Science is meeting this week with their counterparts at Lomonosov Moscow State University, while five RIT students attend a short course on winter ecology at the Zvenigorod Biological Station outside of Moscow.

  • December 9, 2016

    People shaking hands at table with RIT Table Sheet

    RIT expands agreement with University in China

    Tianjin University of Technology of China, a nationally recognized leader for its programs in engineering, technology and the arts and the first technological university providing education for the deaf in China, has entered into new partnership with RIT.

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