News Stories

The Wall Street Journal talks to Daniel Johnson, chair of the Department of Packaging Science, about the challenges to switching to innovative packaging solutions.

PRINT talks to Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor in Communications, about his new book, Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance.

AcademicInfluence.com features Jolene Rickard ’78 (art and design) (Tuscarora), curator and historian at Cornell, as one of the top influential American Indian scholars in the nation.

WROC-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, about how transportation capacity is affecting the supply chain.

WHAM-TV features RIT students, faculty, and staff preparing meals for The Hunger Project.

Attitudes about the COVID-19 vaccine, how sleep and age can affect memory, and how bodily secretions impact wounds are just three of the varied subjects to be discussed Saturday at the Honors Research and Creativity Symposium.

The B. Thomas Golisano collection at RIT Archives is going digital, with a new interactive online exhibit that celebrates the leader’s personal and professional legacy.

RIT appointed two new members — who are also alumni — to its board of trustees. Kathy Yu ’91 has more than 20 years of experience in the technology and semiconductor manufacturing sectors. Nick Schneider ’10, ’10 MS is a principal at Boston Consulting Group, where he is a lead in the company’s technology, media, and telco sector.

Brown Hall will get a face-lift as it becomes a new location for several science and engineering research laboratories. Work is expected to begin on the redesign of the building, on the west side of campus, which previously housed offices of RIT’s Division of Marketing and Communications and several classrooms.

The Verge talks to Christye Sisson, professor and school director, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, about how light interacts with different skin tones.

Productions at RIT and NTID have been accessible for decades to deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members. But this weekend’s production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches in Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall will provide even more accessibility for blind and low-vision audience members.

Some 200 RIT students, faculty, and staff spent part of their Giving Tuesday preparing 20,000 healthy meals for the community during the Hunger Project in the Gordon Field House.