News Stories

Project by postdoctoral fellow Nicholas Conn featured by Ars Technica.

RIT’s first regional conference on Innovations in Global Health will showcase humanitarian efforts on campus and connect with other researchers in the area.

RIT’s 37th annual Expressions of King’s Legacy event, rescheduled for March 7, features CNN political commentator Tara Setmayer as well as performances by viral female tap dance band Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies and vocalist Kearstin Piper Brown.

National Engineers Week takes place this week at RIT, and the university will participate in the annual recognition of engineers’ contributions by hosting a variety of programming for those interested in learning more about what engineers do. 

A diverse set of speakers, including entrepreneurs, social activists and students, will inspire attendees at TEDxRIT, RIT’s independently organized TED event. The talks will be live streamed on Facebook.

RIT Dubai engineering students featured in Trade Arabia.

WHEC-TV interviews Richard Newman, professor of history.

Sevinç Türkkan, an adjunct professor for RIT’s University Writing Program, is a finalist for a 2019 PEN America Literacy Award with her translation of The Stone Building and Other Places, by Asli Erdogan, a journalist and human rights activist from Turkey.

Spectrum News reports on The Esquire Hour All-Star Mock Trial Challenge, a career outreach series for Rochester City School District high school juniors presented by RIT GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs).

NTID is one of three finalists in a global competition to source technology solutions that increase access to local sign languages and advance language and literacy outcomes for deaf children in developing countries.

Assistant Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe is assuming leadership of a team of more than 200 scientists worldwide collaborating to study how galaxies are influenced by both their fundamental physical properties and the environment that surrounds them. 

Worldwide experts in unmanned aerial systems from industry, academia and government will land at Rochester Institute of Technology for the Systems and Technologies for the Remote Sensing Applications Through Unmanned Aerial Systems (STRATUS) conference Feb. 25-27.