News Stories

March 23, 2017

2017 Imagine RIT poster design announced

Riley Yankowich, a third-year new media design student from Deerfield Beach, Fla., created the winning poster and will receive $500 in Tiger Bucks as her prize.
March 23, 2017

Computing, data-sharing expert to speak April 11

Ann Quiroz Gates, department chair and professor of computer science at the University of Texas at El Paso, will be the guest speaker at the sixth annual Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking Signature Lecture.
March 23, 2017

RIT Observatory hosts open house March 31

An open house at the RIT Observatory this month will feature the crescent moon, the Pleiades star cluster, the Orion Nebula and Jupiter.
March 22, 2017

Shtrykov-Tanaka Duo to perform at RIT

Two acclaimed virtuosi—clarinetist Maksim Shtrykov and pianist Misuzu Tanaka—will perform at 8 p.m. March 31 as part of the Performing Artists Concert Series, presented by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts.
March 22, 2017

Carillon set to ring across campus once again

The sound of the RIT carillon bells will be heard throughout campus for the first time in nearly three years on Friday. The system, which broke in 2014, was repaired and will resume chiming at 3 p.m. Friday.
March 22, 2017

FIRST Robotics honors President Bill Destler

RIT President Bill Destler and Xerox Corp. Director of Community Relations Elissa Nesbitt were each presented with the FIRST Robotics Finger Lakes Regional Competition’s Volunteer of the Year Award. The award is given to individuals and companies that have made major commitments to FIRST Robotics.
March 22, 2017

Researcher wins IEEE grant to host drone conference

RIT researcher Emmett Ientilucci won a grant from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society to host a workshop on unmanned aerial systems at RIT in fall 2017.
March 22, 2017

Accreditation evaluation team to visit RIT

RIT is getting ready for its 10-year checkup with an outside accreditation team. A nine-member evaluation team, consisting of faculty and administrators from peer institutions, is on campus through Wednesday.
March 21, 2017

College of Art and Design hosts ‘Gallery Hop’ on Friday

Three new exhibitions are opening in the William Harris Gallery, Bevier Gallery and University Gallery.
March 21, 2017

Symposium tackles freedom of speech on campuses

Restrictions to free speech on college campuses across the country have become more prevalent in recent weeks, and two experts on the topic are addressing the issue during RIT’s Center for Statesmanship, Law and Liberty’s fourth annual symposium April 4 and 5.
March 21, 2017

RIT designated ‘Voter Friendly Campus’

RIT has been named a “Voter Friendly Campus” by the Campus Vote Project and Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education for its ROAR the Vote effort to encourage students to register and vote in the 2016 general election and in coming years.
March 21, 2017

New seminar series on artificial intelligence

RIT has a growing artificial intelligence (AI) community, and a new seminar series has been developed to strengthen interactions among researchers from across campus involved in the growing technology field.