News Stories

  • August 24, 2020

    RIT Ready logo.

    RIT COVID-19 Dashboard Available

    RIT has created a COVID-19 dashboard to help better assess how to modify current practices and protocols to support the health and safety of our community.

  • August 24, 2020

    students wearing masks while walking outside.

    Surveillance testing to start Aug. 24

    Keeping the RIT campus community safe from COVID-19 is crucial to keeping campus open. Students and employees are using many ways to do this: being tested, completing the Daily Health Screen, wearing masks, washing hands, and watching physical distance. The next step in efforts to identify possible areas of virus spread is the implementation of randomized testing.

  • August 24, 2020

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    RIT launches TigerChat communication app

    Face coverings can make lip reading impossible and communication difficult for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. To help improve communication, RIT/NTID’s Center on Access Technology Lab has developed the TigerChat app.

  • August 24, 2020

    student wearing a mask standing on a hotel balcony.

    More than 300 RIT students from travel advisory states start college in quarantine

    More than 300 RIT students are starting this semester in quarantine at area hotels for 14 days because they are from a state on the New York State travel advisory list. The mandatory quarantine was imposed by New York state officials. When cleared, RIT Housing staff will help the students move to campus with help from a chartered bus company.

  • August 21, 2020

    Keith Jenkins, vice president and associate provost for diversity and inclusion.

    Keith Jenkins updates RIT community on RIT’s antiracism and social justice efforts

    Keith Jenkins, vice president and associate provost for diversity and inclusion, provided an update to the community on Tuesday about the university’s efforts on antiracism and social justice. Jenkins said that he and university leaders spent the summer engaging with students, faculty, staff, and alumni groups to generate a list of roughly 100 ideas of ways RIT can do more on these fronts.

  • August 19, 2020

    illustration of hand holding a magnifying glass over a resume.

    How to Tell Your Native Story on a College Application 

    Winds of Change magazine talks to Abigail Reigner, second-year mechanical engineering student, and Sally Douglas, senior associate director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, about advice for Native American students applying to college.

     

  • August 19, 2020

    students in a classroom throwing paper airplanes.

    RIT students start semester with encouragement and precautions

    RIT welcomes a record number of first-year students today as classes begin in a semester that will look like no other due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new students were welcomed Tuesday afternoon during an online convocation that featured several speakers, livestreamed without an audience from Ingle Auditorium.

  • August 17, 2020

    jars of canned produce.

    Learn-to-can classes offered through RIT/GCV&M partnership

    With more people staying closer to home than ever before thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, home gardening has grown in popularity. And many will want to savor the fruits (and vegetables) of their labor long after summer has gone. So a series of online classes on how to preserve food is being offered through the ongoing partnership between RIT and the Genesee Country Village & Museum.

  • August 17, 2020

    outside view of four-story hotel.

    RIT acquires former Radisson hotel property adjacent to campus

    RIT has acquired a hotel adjacent to the university’s Henrietta campus. Rochester Airport Hospitality LLC gifted RIT the former Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport located at 175 Jefferson Road. The property includes 171 bedrooms, conference room spaces, a large indoor pool, a kitchen and dining area, and more.