News Stories
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October 31, 2018
![A group of students standing in front of a "Women Strong Market" sign. Most of the words on the sign are in Haitian.]()
Student teams work with women’s group in Haiti
Haiti became a classroom for more than a dozen RIT students when they worked with 19 women leaders from a nonprofit group in Haiti on projects that could become future businesses. -
October 31, 2018
![A display of packaging for Packin' Heat Sweet Sauce.]()
RIT team wins 2018 Paperboard Packaging Student Design Challenge
RIT’s “Packin’ Heat” student team was a spicy favorite at the 2018 Paperboard Packaging Student Design Challenge. The group of undergraduates took first place among 58 collegiate teams in the national design competition. -
October 30, 2018
![Owen Gottlieb talks to three people and demonstrates how the Lost & Found: Order in the Court game works.]()
Creators of ‘Lost & Found’ game honored for work
The interdisciplinary team of RIT faculty and student researchers, designers and developers that created the Lost & Found tabletop game is getting recognition for its design. Throughout the year, the game has been featured at several showcases for independent and serious games. -
October 30, 2018
![A collage of photos featuring different groups who's proposals won awards in the Community Grants program.]()
13 teams win awards for 2019 Community Grants Program
The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute has announced awardees of its 2019 Community Grants Program as part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to continue improving the health and environmental quality of New York state. -
October 30, 2018
![The logo for the Collegiate Pentesting Competition. Large black and green letters that read CPTC.]()
Colleges face-off at national pentesting competition
Students from the nation’s best colleges will use their hacking skills for good in the largest offensive-based collegiate cybersecurity competition, to be held Nov. 2–4 at RIT. -
October 30, 2018
![Members of the platform party stand in a line at the front of a presentation and close their movie clap-boards to symbolize the opening of the MAGIC Center.]()
RIT opens new MAGIC Spell Studios building
Tours and hands-on experiences were the order of the day as RIT formally opened the newest building on campus—the 52,000-square-foot MAGIC Spell Studios. The RIT community is invited to an open house until 3 p.m. today. -
October 26, 2018
![A side profile of Frank Waln looking off camera to the right. He is wearing a backward gray and brown baseball hat and a gray teeshirt.]()
Hip hop artist, poet to keynote Native American Heritage Month celebrations
Award-winning Native American artists Frank Waln and Tanaya Winder will headline RIT’s annual Native American Heritage Month celebrations. Their keynote event takes place Nov. 19 and is one of several RIT events throughout November highlighting Native American culture and history. -
October 26, 2018
![Triana Almeyda holds her Ph.D. Dissertation Award and poses for a photo next to Twyla Cummings.]()
RIT alumni recognized for outstanding research on black holes
RIT’s Office for Graduate Education recently celebrated groundbreaking research on black holes by two alumni at the annual Graduate Alumni Awards reception. -
October 26, 2018
![Workers sitting in front of computers and discussing what is displayed on the main screen at the front of the room. One man is pointing to the front screen.]()
IBM mobile cybersecurity center to stop at RIT on Friday
RIT Computing Weekend will have an extra special visitor—the new IBM X-Force Command Tactical Operation Center (C-TOC), which will be making its first visit to a university as part of the Nov. 2–4 event. -
October 25, 2018
![TJ Bartholomew runs and dribbles a basketball as another player tries to block him.]()
Student Spotlight: Why study exercise science?
Meet TJ Bartholomew, a third-year exercise science major -
October 25, 2018
![One woman on the right adjusts augmented reality glasses on another woman who is wearing them on the left.]()
NTID to explore augmented reality technology
Using augmented reality to make STEM content more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing learners in live presentation settings is the goal of a $258,000 grant from the National Science Foundation awarded to NTID. -
October 24, 2018
![Two students and two faculty members working on this project pose for a photo in front of their lab bench, which is covered in different tools and models.]()
Researchers improve upon stethoscope design
Researchers at RIT and URMC developed a new digital stethoscope that combines precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology and machine learning applications into one piece of equipment to better detect heart ailments and problems that might occur with an implanted heart pump.
