News Stories

  • June 14, 2018

    Santosh Kurinec and other honorees excitedly pose for a photo, all of them smiling wide and holding their arms out in triumph.

    Professor inducted into international hall of fame

    Santosh Kurinec, a microelectronic engineering professor, was one of six influential women from around the world honored for their work as visionaries in technology, engineering and science and inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.
  • June 12, 2018

    A group of RIT students and parents pose on the mountainside in Croatia, a beautiful city landscape behind them. They hold a banner that reads "Rochester Institute of Technology."

    RIT students and parents ‘Explore Croatia’

    Six students and eight parents spent a week at the end of May in Croatia for “Explore Croatia,” a program sponsored by RIT’s Parent and Family Programs that provided non-credit study-abroad experience. It was the first time a trip was planned for students as well as their parents.
  • June 11, 2018

    Person holding award surrounded by faculty.

    Saunders College names Vanden Brul Award winner

    John “Dutch” Summers, CEO of Graywood Companies, Jasco Heat Treating and Jasco Pharmaceuticals LLC, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, which is given to entrepreneurial leaders within the upstate New York region.
  • June 4, 2018

    RIT students and Professor Rojas are outside setting up their solar powered 3D printer. In the distance, a large group of school children look at their progress.

    Team creates solar-powered 3D printing system

    RIT engineering students and faculty traveled to Cali, Colombia, to deliver and show residents how to use a new solar-powered 3D printing system they developed. The team worked with partners from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente throughout the spring semester to create the product.
  • May 30, 2018

    two students playing computer games.

    RIT ranked No. 1 game design school on East Coast

    Animation Career Review has again named RIT the top game design school on the East Coast. RIT also ranked second on the list of Top 50 Game Design Schools in the U.S., moving up from third in 2017.
  • May 29, 2018

    a group of people at a celebration with a dining table.

    RIT puts final wrap on successful NYC Design Week

    Dozens of RIT students, faculty and staff left New York City exhausted yet inspired after the university’s most ambitious presence ever at NYCxDESIGN, the Big Apple’s sixth-annual celebration of design. Scores of visitors crowded into RIT’s seven exhibits and events showcased May 16 to 23.
  • May 29, 2018

    Cayla Denning sits at a table and demonstrates the prototype device for three young boys.

    RIT team advances in NASA challenge

    Students from RIT’s College of Applied Science and Technology qualified for the testing round of NASA’s Micro-g NExT design challenge, a national competition to build equipment prototypes.