News Stories

August 22, 2017

Students pitch business ideas to investors

The Saunders Summer Startup Program held its Investor Demo Night, in which the 11 teams that spent the summer working on their business ideas got the chance to pitch their ventures to potential investors.
August 21, 2017

RIT welcomes largest-ever class of Rochester City Scholars

RIT will welcome the eighth class of Destler/Johnson Rochester City Scholars at a ceremony on Monday. Since the program was established in 2010, more than 150 students from the district have attended RIT and received full scholarships toward their degree programs.
August 21, 2017

RIT welcomes most diverse class of freshmen

RIT this week welcomes its most diverse freshman class of about 2,800 students. That gives a total approximate enrollment approaching 19,000 students for the first time at RIT.
August 21, 2017

2017 fall move-in parking lot closures

There are multiple lots and road closures on Tuesday in order to accommodate First-Year Move-In.
August 21, 2017

Brick City features Trevor Noah of ‘The Daily Show’

Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend, Oct. 13-15, features more than 100 events during three days. Registration is now open.
August 17, 2017

Students help determine options for vacant city lots

RIT students are working with Rochester high school students to see if some of the 300 city-owned vacant lots in the Marketview Heights neighborhood can be turned into assets such as community gardens, playscapes or exercise stations.
August 16, 2017

Astrophysics Ph.D. student wins NASA fellowship

RIT graduate student Chi Nguyen was selected for a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in Astrophysics Research, one of eight fellowship recipients selected from 141 applicants to the Astrophysics Science Research Program.
August 16, 2017

RIT recognized for cyber defense research

RIT has been designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research, which recognizes the university for its significant contributions in defending America’s cyberspace through computing security research.
August 14, 2017

College of Science makes leadership changes

RIT’s College of Science is expanding its focus on interdisciplinary education and industry partnerships through new leadership roles and assignments designed to enrich current curricula.
August 14, 2017

Exhibition and book detail life of photo pioneer Jeannette Klute

Jeannette Klute: A Photographic Pioneer, published by RIT Press, is illustrated with color photographs and personal papers from the Jeannette Klute Collection held at the RIT Archives, the largest collection of her work in the world. The book was written by RIT Professor Therese Mulligan.
August 9, 2017

RIT physicist studies quantum sensing solutions

Research conducted by Mishkat Bhattacharya, a theoretical physicist, is advancing a new kind of sensing technology that captures data with better precision than currently possible and promises cheaper, smaller and lighter sensor designs.
August 8, 2017

NTID gets $2.6M to study language outcomes

NTID was awarded a $2.6 million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health to study the neurological, linguistic and behavioral outcomes for deaf individuals after childhood—the first study of its kind with college-age adults.