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  • 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.

  • May 24, 2018

    RIT building with text saying, "A shining beacon, fifty years of the national technical institute for the deaf."

    History book highlights first 50 years of NTID

    Published by RIT Press, A Shining Beacon: Fifty Years of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf highlights the first 50 years of the world’s first and largest technological college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at RIT.

  • May 23, 2018

    Headshot of Patricia Moore.

    RIT hosts Capstone Design Conference

    More than 200 faculty, administrators, researchers and students from universities around the country are expected for the conference about improving capstone courses, one of the key experiential learning components of engineering education.

  • May 21, 2018

    Students on stage holding up their future colleges' shirts.

    Rochester Prep grads head to college

    RIT’s partnership with Rochester Prep High School reached a major milestone: all 25 of the graduating students from the first class are bound for college--including three to RIT.

  • May 21, 2018

    A headshot of Caroline Easton.

    RIT offers behavioral health internship

    The Priority Behavioral Health Care Psychology Internship Program aims to increase the number of highly trained clinicians and researchers working as clinical leaders in the region.

  • May 21, 2018

    Logo and text saying "East House, Moving lives forward."

    East House James Papero Enrichment Program opens at RIT

    Forty-five East House clients will take part in a two-week enrichment program on June 4-7 and June 11-14 at RIT. This program encourages participants, who are recovering from mental health or substance use disorders, to pursue educational goals to achieve independence and self-sufficiency.