News Stories

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.
March 21, 2017

Video game design programs jump in 2017 rankings

RIT is one of the top schools in the world to study game design and launch games for 2017, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game design and development program was ranked second at the undergraduate level and fourth at the graduate level.
March 21, 2017

Information retrieval expert to speak Friday

Jeremy Pickens, a leading information retrieval research scientist, will discuss the problems and opportunities with law and the collection of massive amounts of data as part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Dean’s Lecture Series.
March 21, 2017

Celebration of life on Friday for Stan McKenzie

Stan McKenzie, who died Nov. 8, served RIT for 41 years in several capacities, including teaching literature for 34 years and serving as provost for 14 years. The memorial will begin at 4 p.m.
March 20, 2017

RIT wins regional cyber defense competition

A team of RIT cybersecurity students is heading to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition after taking first place at the regional competition March 17–19.
March 17, 2017

Stamp dedication event honors Robert Panara

The First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony for the Robert Panara two-ounce Forever stamp will take place at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 11, in Panara Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.