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  • 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.

  • October 17, 2018

    A headshot of Jenny Fleiss.

    Fashion entrepreneur to speak on Friday

    Jenny Fleiss, CEO and co-founder of Jetblack and Rent the Runway, will speak Friday as part of the Saunders College of Business Gasser Lecture Series.

  • October 16, 2018

    Two women and three men pose for a photo holding the Century Award trophy.

    Tigers set records at United Way Golf Tournament

    The annual RIT United Way Golf Tournament raised a record $12,000 for the Greater Rochester United Way Community Fund. The event also featured the most teams (40) and sponsors (18) in the tournament’s history.

  • October 15, 2018

    An aerial view of students interacting with employer booths at the career fair.

    RIT/NTID hosts Career Fair

    Representatives from more than 50 local and national corporations, federal agencies and nonprofit organizations looking to diversify their workforce will meet with hundreds of deaf and hard-of-hearing students—who are also prospective employees—at the 18th annual Career Fair on Oct. 17.

  • October 15, 2018

    A group of three researchers stand together in a line and smile at the camera.

    Researchers use AI to preserve Seneca language

    Using deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence, RIT researchers are building an automatic speech recognition application to document and transcribe the traditional language of the Seneca people.