News Stories

A variety of RIT performing artists will showcase their talents at IGNITE, organized by NTID's Department of Performing Arts and Dance at RIT. IGNITE will have four shows Feb. 11-13 at Robert F. Panara Theatre in Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall.

WROC-TV talks to Jackie Nicholson, executive director of Intercollegiate Athletics; Wayne Wilson, men’s hockey head coach; and Celeste Brown, women’s hockey head coach, about the recent changes to NCAA bylaws that will allow RIT to give athletic scholarships to Division I student-athletes.

Yahoo News features a story by the Democrat and Chronicle on Sean Forbes ’08 (applied arts and sciences) performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

WHEC-TV talks to Robert Ulin, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, about child labor used on cocoa farms.

WITR-FM (89.7) will host RIT President David Munson at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, as part of the “Ask Munson” series.

Midnight Waves, a band formed by RIT students last semester, were named overall winners of Friday’s Ovation: RIT Performing Arts Showcase with its Latin/jazz combo performance of “The Tiger of San Pedro.”

The NFL and the National Association of the Deaf announce that Deaf musician Sean Forbes ’08 (applied arts and sciences) will sign the Halftime Show with Deaf musician Warren “Wawa” Snipe.

RIT students, faculty, and staff are invited to discuss non-partisan solutions to some of the most complex civic and political problems of our day as part of the Horizons program. The first, with the topic, “Youth and Opportunity: What Should We Do for Future Generations to Thrive?” is scheduled for Feb. 9.

The RIT Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Professor Michael Ruhling, is offering a series of four free performances Wednesday afternoons this semester, exploring the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Ersin Uzun, former vice president and head of Global Internet of Things (IoT) Business at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Xerox, has been named the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute.

The diagnostic medical sonography program at RIT was awarded continuing accreditation in compliance with national standards and guidelines established by the profession.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics.