News Stories

November 11, 2016

RIT names three new members to Board of Trustees

Darshan Hiranandani, managing director of Hiranandani Group of Companies; Andrew Jacobson, enrolled agent at Maverick Business Services (retired); and Christopher Lehfeldt, dentist at Elmwood Dental Group PC and Finger Lakes Community Health, were named to RIT’s Board of Trustees on Nov. 10.
November 11, 2016

Students compete in cybersecurity competition

College students from Maine to California traveled to RIT to test their hacking skills in the annual Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition. University of Central Florida took home the top trophy in the competition, while University at Buffalo placed second and RIT placed third.
November 10, 2016

Graduate student finds family in peers

Meet Sanjay Varma Rudraraju, a computer science graduate student from Visakhapatnam, India. He works in The Wallace Center and recently participated in The Giant Read, in which RIT students visited School No. 5 in the city of Rochester and read to first-graders.
November 10, 2016

Galleries to honor Norman Ives

The first-ever major retrospective exhibition highlighting the work of Norman Ives—a renowned Yale University artist and designer—will be on display at both RIT’s University and Bevier galleries from Nov. 18 to Jan. 6.
November 10, 2016

Local video game developers, entrepreneurs visit

Brothers Karthik and Guha Bala, co-founders of video game giant Vicarious Visions, will speak on Monday in Student Innovation Hall.
November 9, 2016

Professor images diaries of 19th-century explorer

Multispectral imaging technology continues to recover new insights from the field diaries of 19th-century explorer David Livingstone. A team of scholars and scientists, including RIT Professor Roger Easton, will present their research in the United Kingdom in November.
November 9, 2016

Professor collaborates on new astronomical camera

RIT professor Michael Richmond is a visiting professor for the fall term at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for the Early Universe and is working on a new type of astronomical camera for the 105-centimeter Kiso Schmidt Telescope at the Kiso Observatory in Japan.
November 9, 2016

RIT remembers Provost Emeritus Stanley McKenzie

Stanley McKenzie, RIT provost emeritus and former vice president for Academic Affairs, died Nov. 8 in Tucson, Ariz. McKenzie served for 41 years in several roles at RIT until his retirement in 2011.
November 9, 2016

Shakespeare sonnets inspire seven short plays

Loveâ€™s Fire opens Thursday in the 1510 Lab Theatre and is part of RITâ€™s yearlong commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeareâ€™s death.
November 8, 2016

Saunders College unveils two learning spaces

RIT’s Saunders College of Business is now home to the REDCOM Active Learning Collaboratory and the Business Analytics Lab. The spaces enable faculty to implement learning activities that promote student engagement and peer-based learning.
November 7, 2016

Anselm named interim director of electronics manufacturing center

Martin Anselm, assistant professor of manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology, was recently named interim director of the Center for Electronics Manufacturing and Assembly at RIT.
November 7, 2016

RIT Baja tops field in Midnight Mayhem event

RIT Racing took three cars to the event, hosted by the University of Louisville. All three placed in the maneuverability event, one took first place in the motocross event and another won the four-hour endurance race.