News Stories

Jan van Aardt, professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, is being honored with the 2022 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s highest honor for tenured faculty.

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, is being honored with the 2022 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. RIT presents this annual award to a faculty member who has spent less than three years as full-time tenure-track and who has demonstrated exemplary teaching methods and contributions to student development.

WHEC-TV features the Batman of San Jose, an RIT student who provides food and supplies to the homeless and who wishes to remain anonymous.

WXXI features RIT's announcement to create a School of Performing Arts.

WHAM-TV features photographic and imaging arts student Sydney Lewandowski.

RIT is creating a School of Performing Arts to offer additional creative opportunities for thousands of students who wish to pursue their passions in performance while majoring in a range of other fields. The new school will be housed within RIT’s College of Liberal Arts beginning July 1, and a national search is underway for a director. 

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, headquartered at RIT since 2008, has issued a request for proposals for its Research and Development program from the organization’s partner universities—RIT, Binghamton University, Clarkson University, Cornell University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

RIT Esports is a national champion again, after a team of students came out victorious in the 2022 Hearthstone Collegiate Masters Tournament. The Tigers bested more than 200 teams to win the tournament, which is the main event for collegiate Hearthstone and is run by the game’s maker, Blizzard Entertainment.

Leigh Rubin, the syndicated “Rubes” cartoonist and RIT’s “cartoonist-in-residence” returns to the campus in person after a two-year virtual residency due to the pandemic. He’ll be speaking with students and offering a presentation and Q and A session, “Imagination through the eyes of RIT Cartoonist-in-Residence Leigh Rubin,” on April 19.

The Rochester Beacon talks to Chad Weeden, director of Esports and CyberSecurity Range, about esports at RIT.

The Indian Express features research by Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor of software engineering.

ASBMBToday, a publication of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, features the RIT-RISE project.