News Stories

  • October 24, 2018

    Four men sitting at a table and speaking on a panel at the Japanese National Press Club.

    RIT’s Nasr releases U.N. report on circular economies

    Rethinking how industrial products are manufactured and dealing with them at the end of their useful life could provide breakthrough environmental, social and economic benefits, according to new research from the International Resource Panel.
  • October 24, 2018

    Side profile of a small brown elephant.

    Research on elephants could translate to robotics

    Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes research by RIT scientist Scott Franklin.
  • October 23, 2018

    Tour new MAGIC Spell Studios

    Join in the excitement tomorrow as RIT opens its newest, and perhaps most engaging, academic facility—MAGIC Spell Studios!
  • October 23, 2018

    The cover of Carroll, Kray and Mandell's new book, featuring bright red text for the title and two small portraits of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

    Faculty members’ new book looks at 2016 presidential election

    Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, edited by three RIT faculty members in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, looks at how Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and American voters invoked ideas of gender, race and history in that election.
  • October 23, 2018

    Students sitting at tables and looking toward the speaker who is off camera.

    RIT hosts Entrepreneurship Conference on Friday

    The Entrepreneurship Conference at RIT features informational networking sessions, the student Tiger Tank competition and a keynote address from Mark Gentile, founder of Odyssey Software.
  • October 23, 2018

    Side profile of Enid Cardinal speaking at the front of a room.

    RIT to receive $1 million for clean energy project

    RIT has won $1 million as part of the Energy to Lead Competition, which challenges New York colleges and universities to develop plans for local clean energy projects on campus and in their communities as the state seeks innovative solutions to combat climate change.
  • October 22, 2018

    Rochester city skyline.

    RIT celebrates past and future of ‘Brick City’

    The Rochester skyline was lit Tiger orange Saturday night as part of RIT’s annual Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend. More than 15,800 members of the RIT community came out Oct. 19-21 for 125 homecoming events, including celebrating 50 years since the move from downtown Rochester to Henrietta.
  • October 18, 2018

    logo for RIT intersections: the RIT podcast.

    Podcast: Critical Thinking 

    Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 1: Our debut episode features a conversation between Eugene Fram, professor emeritus from Saunders College of Business, and Chris Jackson, associate dean of the College of Art and Design. The two discuss how they came to value the importance of critical thinking and the role it plays in education, business, design and everyday life.

  • October 17, 2018

    A landscape photo of the front of the Sustainability building on RIT campus.

    RIT named among top ‘green colleges’

    RIT, for the eighth consecutive year, has been named one of the greenest universities by The Princeton Review—while also placing on the new “Top 50 Green Colleges” ranking list.