News Stories

Our community took the virus seriously and was fully committed to doing whatever was necessary to stay safe. We were RIT ready and we’ll stay RIT ready moving forward.

Work on the Innovative Maker and Learning Complex will wake up the quiet RIT campus on Dec. 14, with the beginning of the pile foundation construction for the new building.

Adults age 50 and older can engage and enrich their mind by joining the learning community at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT. There will be a free winter course preview via Zoom on Dec. 14, and registration opens Dec. 15.

Imaging scientists at RIT have several new projects in the works to improve the way waveform LiDAR can be used to study forests. LiDAR currently does a good job of outlining the top portion of forests, but by using a more complex form of LiDAR, it can reveal much more detail about what lies beneath the forest canopy’s surface.

T. Alan Hurwitz, former president of NTID, details his experiences with leadership, family life, and advocacy as a Deaf individual in a newly published memoir, Let’s Go In: My Journey to a University Presidency.

RIT has announced an extension to a tuition scholarship program for RIT graduates seeking to further advance their career opportunities while the job market recalibrates and the country responds to the coronavirus pandemic.

WROC-TV features RIT President David Munson.

Scientific American features work by Ted Kinsman, associate professor in the photographic sciences program.

WHAM-TV talks to Luane Davis Haggerty, Dan Roache, Thomas Warfield about NTID's production of Spoon River Anthologies.

Fox Rochester reports on NTID's production of Spoon River Anthologies.

Keegan Evans will take his place this summer among a group of young Air Force officers from around the globe who have been selected for the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program. The RIT Air Force ROTC cadet was selected from among hundreds of ROTC students for one of the U.S. Air Force’s most elite flight training programs.

New York Times bestselling author Bakari Sellers will deliver a talk titled “Education, Civil Rights and Equality: Cornerstones for Our Future” at the 39th Expressions of King’s Legacy. The virtual event is free and open to the public, taking place on Zoom from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28.