News Stories

March 8, 2017

Packaging science students host Packaging Jamboree

The 32nd annual Packaging Jamboree focuses on innovations and technologies that are helping improve problems in the environment. It is organized and run entirely by students.
March 8, 2017

FIRST Robotics regional kicks off March 17

Robotic “adventure clubs” are mobilizing for Steamworks, the 2017 FIRST Robotics competition. This year, 49 high school teams from New York, Ohio and Canada will meet for the Finger Lakes Regional on March 17-18 at RIT.
March 8, 2017

RIT ranked among top animation schools

RIT’s School of Film and Animation is once again ranked among the top animation schools in the country by Animation Career Review, a leading online resource of information for aspiring animation and game design professionals.
March 7, 2017

Alumnus wins national award for physics research

Ryan Scott ’16 (physics) has been recognized by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Advanced Laboratory Physics Association for his contributions as an undergraduate student researcher to RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy.
March 7, 2017

Osher at RIT previews spring courses

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology is offering a sneak peek of spring term classes for thinkers ages 50 and beyond on March 20.
March 7, 2017

Professor to serve on panel for hip dysplasia

Professor Hamad Ghazle has been nominated by the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography to serve on an expert panel developing criteria on pediatric hip dysplasia for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
March 7, 2017

NTID professor first U.S. scientist in EACH program

Todd Pagano, professor of chemistry and associate dean for Teaching and Scholarship Excellence at NTID, was the first faculty member from RIT—and the first U.S. scientist—to participate in the Excellence in Analytical CHemistry (EACH) program.
March 7, 2017

RIT hosts information session for part-time study

RIT is helping to address the needs of adult and part-time learners by offering a program that will help them create a plan to sharpen their skills or earn a degree.
March 7, 2017

CHAIRity auction to benefit United Way now open

Thirty ordinary chairs have been transformed into beautiful works of art and are available to the highest bidder—in support of RIT’s 2017 United Way of Greater Rochester campaign. The third annual CHAIRity Auction runs until March 17.
March 6, 2017

RIT helps advance space camera being tested on ISS

Imaging technology advanced by researchers at RIT and Florida Institute of Technology is being tested on the International Space Station and could someday be used on future space telescopes.
March 6, 2017

RIT partners with Roberts Wesleyan

RIT has signed an agreement with Roberts Wesleyan College that will allow students from RIT to simultaneously take classes in Roberts’ graduate education programs easily and at an accelerated level.
March 6, 2017

NTID to offer degree in 3-D graphics technology

NTID has been granted approval by the New York State Education Department to establish a new degree program in 3-D graphics technology. Beginning this fall, RIT/NTID will become the first college to offer this kind of associate degree program to deaf and hard-of-hearing students.