News Stories

WROC-TV features the AT&T & RIT ROCtheChange Game Jam and talks to Elouise Oyzon, associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media.

A solo exhibition of photographs and video by David Butow, whose new book, Brink, chronicles politics in the United States from the 2016 presidential election through the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, is coming to RIT’s City Art Space.

RIT faculty and staff are learning the graceful slow movements of Tai Chi from a master martial artist and RIT’s dean of the College of Health Sciences and Technology. Dean Yong “Tai” Wang introduced the class to Tai Chi over eight weeks at the Global Village fitness studio.

Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce and its Women’s Council have named three RIT community members as finalists for the 2022 ATHENA International Young Professional Award, which recognizes emerging female leaders in the 30- to 45-year-old range who demonstrate excellence, creativity, and initiative in their business or profession and serve as a role model for young women.

Rachel Romaine, a fourth-year international business and management information systems double major, received a $10,000 Award for Excellence in Business Commentary from The Executive Leadership Council, a preeminent membership organization committed to increasing the number of global Black executives in C-suites, on corporate boards, and in global enterprises.

The SpiRIT Pass website allows RIT students, faculty, and staff to show their compliance with RIT vaccination requirements to attend large, public events indoors on campus.

The Executive MBA program at RIT’s Saunders College of Business is ranked 27th in Princeton Review’s “Top 50 Online MBA Programs for 2022.” The college’s rigorous Executive MBA program is based on developing students’ strategic thinking and decision-making skills in a flexible, small-class environment.

WROC-TV talks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, about “disproportionate homework.”

The Rochester Business Journal features a study co-authored by Kristin Bain, assistant professor of management.

A team of Cal Poly Pomona students took home the top trophy at the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) global finals Jan. 6-9. Stanford placed second and Tennessee Technological University placed third.

Inside Higher Ed features the RIT European Post-High School Semester program.

RIT received a nearly $1 million National Science Foundation grant that will provide scholarships for computing students and help researchers explore new ways to improve computing education. Sharon Mason, a professor in RIT’s School of Information, is principal investigator of the project.