News Stories

September 13, 2018

RIT helps students take an entrepreneurial gap year

Brandon Hudson is the first student selected for the Gap Year Entrepreneurship Fellows Program, which allows students with an ongoing enterprise to take a year to focus their full attention on the venture. He will receive $15,000 in support and mentoring while also making progress on his RIT degree.
September 12, 2018

Veteran journalist Janet Lomax named Minett Professor

The Minett Professorship brings distinguished Rochester-area multicultural professionals to the RIT campus to share their professional knowledge and experience.
September 12, 2018

Catch the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival

RIT is a major educational sponsor of the community collaborative event, now in its seventh year, and will provide free shuttle bus service to and from campus during the festival weekends. All of the 38 RIT performances and exhibits are free.
September 11, 2018

RIT has its first on-campus voting site

This year for the first time, eligible students at RIT will be able to cast their vote in a general election without leaving campus. The Monroe County Board of Elections is establishing a polling station at RIT’s Gene Polisseni Center.
September 11, 2018

MAGIC Center co-sponsors Rochester Game Festival

Forty tabletop and video game projects created by local college students, faculty and game developers from Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse will be available to play during the second annual Rochester Game Festival on Sept. 15.
September 11, 2018

RIT to test emergency notification system Sept. 16

RIT will conduct a test of RIT Alert, the emergency notification system, at approximately 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16. No action is needed.
September 10, 2018

RIT recognized for diversity and inclusion efforts

For the second year in a row, RIT is being honored as an institution committed to diversity for 2018 by Minority Access, Incorporated. RIT is also receiving a Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT into Diversity magazine for the fifth consecutive year.
September 10, 2018

RIT wins collaborative award to improve STEM ecosystem

RIT professor Casey Miller won $880,000 from the National Science Foundation INCLUDES program, which seeks to increase and strengthen efforts to create a diverse STEM workforce to meet the nation’s future needs and maintain its standing in research and development.
September 10, 2018

Learn about engineering leadership programs

Engineers, scientists, technical managers and other professionals looking to move into mid- and senior-level management positions in high-tech industries can attain the needed product development and leadership skills through programs offered at RIT. Learn more at a webinar on Sept. 26.
September 10, 2018

Cybersecurity lab named for partnership with Eaton Corp.

The Eaton Cybersecurity SAFE Lab performs penetration tests and vulnerability analysis on technology created by Eaton, a global power management company that offers an array of electrical products and services.
September 10, 2018

Bruce Myers to head School of Media Sciences

Serving as interim administrative chair this past academic year, industry printing expert and associate professor Bruce Myers has been named director of RIT’s School of Media Sciences.
September 10, 2018

RIT among the top universities in the nation

RIT is among the top third “National Universities” and the top 50 choices of high school guidance counselors, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.