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  • October 18, 2017

    Scientists cleaning equipment

    Four companies graduate from business incubator

    Venture Creations, the business incubator at RIT, celebrated the launch of four new businesses: Token, Impact Earth, Optel and Turbett Surgical, which makes a surgical container, shown here, designed to save time in preparing and delivering surgical instruments to the sterile field.

  • October 17, 2017

    Portrait of Bernie Boston

    RIT celebrates 50th anniversary of ‘Flower Power’

    This week marks the 50th anniversary of the day RIT alumnus Bernie Boston ’55 captured “Flower Power,” an iconic photo that would become emblematic of 1960s counterculture and anti-Vietnam War movements. The RIT Archives will commemorate the anniversary with a pop-up exhibition on Thursday.

  • October 17, 2017

    Picture of flags on field

    RIT awarded $1.3M for Veterans Upward Bound program

    Area veterans will have the opportunity to attain college degrees and enter some of the area’s fastest growing employment sectors through Veterans Upward Bound, a national outreach program that will be based at RIT.

  • October 17, 2017

    People shaking hands at event

    GCCIS’ Kim Shearer wins Changing Hearts and Minds Award

    Kim Shearer, director of operations and college liaison for the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, received the 2017 Changing Hearts and Minds Award for her efforts to enhance diversity among the faculty ranks and further RIT’s overall commitment to diversity.

  • October 16, 2017

    People performing on stage

    ‘Heroes: A Video Game Symphony’ set for Oct. 26

    The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will continue its special video game concert series with “Heroes: A Video Game Symphony,” at 8 p.m. Oct. 26. The show is co-sponsored by RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios and Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement.

  • October 16, 2017

    Amanda White walking down runway

    RIT hits the runway for Fashion Week of Rochester

    Twenty students and alumni from RIT’s School for American Crafts (SAC)—and a special new member of the RIT community—modeled dazzling jewelry during the Oct. 12 runway show at Fashion Week of Rochester.

  • October 16, 2017

    Computer Graphic of "First Cosmic Event Observed in Gravitational Waves and Light"

    RIT researchers part of breakthrough discovery

    RIT researchers played a significant role in an international announcement today that has changed the future of astrophysics. The breakthrough discovery of colliding neutron stars marks the first time both gravitational waves and light have been detected from the same cosmic collision.