News Stories

January 23, 2017

Retail expert: Some legacy stores will survive

Saunders College of Business Professor Emeritus Eugene Fram says the U.S. has become “overstored” for the needs of the population during the last 20-plus years, and retailers such as Macy’s, J.C. Penney and Costco are making critical decisions that best fit the needs of a changing clientele.
January 23, 2017

RIT hosts ARM Developer Day on Friday

Xiaolin Lu, an expert in the Internet of Things, will be the keynote speaker for the annual RIT ARM Developer Day conference. RIT ARM Developer Day is open to engineering, engineering technology, computing and science students from RIT and regional colleges and universities.
January 23, 2017

Introducing RIT’s 10th president today

RIT will introduce its 10th president at 11 a.m. today in the Gordon Field House. A live, captioned web stream of the event will also be available.
January 19, 2017

Dyer Arts Center opens 2017 with three exhibits

The Dyer Arts Center hosts “(Re)Invention,” a traveling exhibition from the Kennedy Center; an exhibit with works from the personal collections of faculty artists from RIT/NTID’s Visual Communication Studies Department; and an exhibit on “Shakespeare in American Deaf History.”
January 17, 2017

Professor seeks to improve Ph.D. completion rates

Casey Miller, associate professor and director of RIT’s materials science and engineering graduate program, won funding from the National Science Foundation to develop an inclusive approach to physics graduate education admission and retention of traditionally underrepresented U.S. citizens.
January 17, 2017

Engineer researches stress on cell circulation

Jiandi Wan, an assistant professor of microsystems engineering, received a $476,505 award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to better understand blood flow and how cells moving through blood vessels are affected by pressure and friction.
January 16, 2017

RIT named core partner of new robotics institute

RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability is a core academic partner in a new advanced robotics manufacturing institute announced by the U.S. Department of Defense on Jan. 13. The Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Innovation Hub is the 14th Manufacturing USA institute announced and seventh for RIT.
January 16, 2017

Professor discusses cyber situational awareness

Shanchieh (Jay) Yang, department head of computer engineering at RIT, was a plenary speaker and presented a master class on “Network attack simulation: An enabler for cyber situational awareness analytics and training” at the Australasian Simulation Congress and annual conference.
January 13, 2017

RIT to expand student anti-terrorism initiative

It’s Time: ExOut Extremism, an online initiative to combat violent extremism that started as a classroom assignment, has been awarded $149,000 from the Department of Homeland Security.
January 11, 2017

RIT experiences ingenuity at CES

More than 170,000 tech enthusiasts gathered from around the globe to experience technology innovation at the 50th anniversary of the Consumer Electronics Show, including dozens of RIT alumni, faculty and students.
January 10, 2017

Alumnus to receive Academy Award

Brian Cantwell ’99 (film and animation) is a member of the team at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) that will be recognized for its design and development of ILM’s facial performance-capture solving system.
January 10, 2017

Online programs score well in national rankings

The 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings recognizes RIT on its “Best Online Graduate MBA programs,”“Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs” and “Best Online Bachelor’s Programs” lists.