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  • February 27, 2017

    Hundreds of people gathered at career event

    Spring Career Fair set for Wednesday

    More than 230 companies searching for skilled employees are expected at RIT’s 2017 Spring Career Fair, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Gordon Field House.

  • February 27, 2017

    Poster displaying "Preparing a Generation to Tackle the Grand Challenges" and people looking at globe

    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

    People working on computers at desk

    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

    Person running experiment in laboratory

    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

    Person speaking with Shark tank hosts

    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

    Person working on computer in lab

    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

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    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

    People dancing on stage

    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

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    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.