News Stories

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.

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.

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.

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.

City Newspaper features Sungmin Shin, adjunct faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and member of the contemporary classical chamber ensemble fivebyfive.

RIT physician assistant students from the Class of 2020 met in front of the Clinical Health Sciences Center one evening last month for a special tradition and rite of passage—the White Coat ceremony.

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.

The Democrat and Chronicle features Orlando Ortiz '04 (manufacturing engineering technology) '08 (MBA).

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.

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.

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.

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.