News Stories

February 27, 2017

RIT joins Grand Challenge Scholars Program

RIT is the newest university to be designated as part of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, a national initiative to train future engineering and non-engineering professionals to play a significant role in solving the major challenges of the 21st century.
February 27, 2017

Game makers put to the test at GDC

Hundreds of game developers and designers from around the world come to the Prototype/Playtest Night, hosted by RIT, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco hoping to have their games torn apart.
February 27, 2017

Students study habitable zone of alien planets

First-year students in RIT’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered in another solar system.
February 27, 2017

Saunders College alumni strike ‘Shark Tank’ deal

Nathan Coleman ’09 (marketing) and James Brooks ’09 (international business) gave up 17.5 percent of e-commerce retail company The Elephant Pants to fashion mogul shark Daymond John for $500,000.
February 24, 2017

Forums planned this week with RIT’s 10th president

Two campuswide open forums will be held this week with David C. Munson, RIT’s incoming president.
February 24, 2017

School of Media Sciences to offer new master’s degree

To help meet the changing needs facing the graphic communications industry, RIT's School of Media Sciences will offer a new master of science degree in media arts and technology this fall that will teach and demonstrate the latest technologies in print, web, mobile and social media workflows.
February 23, 2017

Student prepares for conference championship game

Meet Jessica Glaz, a third-year packaging science student, who is a guard for the women’s basketball team. The team will compete in the Liberty League championship game on Saturday.
February 23, 2017

Gaming students catch Train Jam to GDC

Five RIT game design and development students are on track for the annual Train Jam, a 52-hour video game building event held on an Amtrak train from Chicago to California. The train’s final stop is San Francisco, for the Game Developers Conference Feb. 27–March 3.
February 23, 2017

RIT hosts Step Afrika! dancers

Ranked as one of the top African-American dance companies in the country, Step Afrika! will perform at 7 p.m. March 8 in the university’s Ingle Auditorium.
February 22, 2017

Global Payments exec headlines Power Your Potential

Jane Elliott will be discussing “What is your personal Big Hairy Audacious Goal” as Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology hosts the eighth annual Power Your Potential women’s leadership event on March 3.
February 22, 2017

Talk explores complex authors' rights

A discussion today will help student and professional researchers learn about their intellectual property rights as academic authors.
February 21, 2017

Health Innovation Challenge to open Imagine RIT

Each year, the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival has opened with a challenge from RIT President Bill Destler. This year, the contest is an interdisciplinary health innovation challenge.