News Stories

  • April 25, 2017

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    Students win international scholarships

    RIT students have won a variety of international scholarships and fellowships for the summer term and upcoming academic year. They will be recognized at the Global Learning Symposium on Thursday.
  • April 25, 2017

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    RIT hosts Global Learning Symposium on Thursday

    The third annual Global Learning Symposium will include exhibits from students showcasing their academic achievements while abroad and will recognize prestigious international fellowship and scholarship winners.
  • April 24, 2017

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    Farid Barquet elected Student Government president

    Barquet, who is finishing his third year as a biomedical sciences and biotechnology double major, has been elected RIT’s Student Government president for the 2017-2018 academic year. His term begins June 1.
  • April 24, 2017

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    Drone gives archeologist a cool tool

    An off-the-shelf drone customized for archeological surveys by RIT students will be on exhibit at the 10th annual Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 6.
  • April 20, 2017

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    RIT’s Nasr honored for engineering distinction

    Nabil Z. Nasr, associate provost for academic affairs and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has been honored for a lifetime of engineering distinction and leadership by the Rochester Engineering Society.
  • April 20, 2017

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    RIT student presents research on Capitol Hill

    RIT biomedical sciences student William Marmor will present his undergraduate research at the Posters on the Hill event in Washington, D.C., April 25-26. The Council on Undergraduate Research sponsors the competitive event for students to share their research with congressional members.
  • April 19, 2017

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    Book artist to speak Thursday

    Richard Minsky will talk about how his work is designed to manipulate emotion, intellect and consciousness. He will also serve as an artist-in-residence at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection this week and will produce a variety of works on the Kelmscott/Goudy Albion iron hand press.
  • April 19, 2017

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    New program takes RIT students Into the ROC

    Into the ROC was created last fall to enable students to experience cultural and recreational activities in the Rochester area and allow them an opportunity to volunteer to make the community a better place.
  • April 19, 2017

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    Girls Who Code founder to speak at RIT

    Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology, will speak Friday as part of the ACM New York Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
  • April 17, 2017

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    ‘Reporter’ wins multiple awards

    Reporter, the student-run magazine at RIT, has won several Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and awards from the 2016 Better Newspaper Contest given by the New York Press Association.
  • April 17, 2017

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    Archie Comics co-CEO to give Earth Day talk

    Nancy Silberkleit will discuss Archie, environmental outreach and how comics can change the world during a talk Wednesday hosted by RIT’s School of Individualized Study.