News Stories

October 5, 2016

RIT gets $1M grant to develop food waste solutions

Callie Babbitt, an associate professor in RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has received a nearly $1 million award from the National Science Foundation to research sustainable solutions for minimizing and managing food waste generated across the food supply chain.
October 5, 2016

RIT honors outstanding staff members

RIT honored employees for outstanding service and dedication to the university during its annual Presidential Awards for Outstanding Staff ceremony today.
October 4, 2016

Top stories and videos for September

News and a video about RIT’s ranking among top national universities were among the most popular last month. Check out all of September’s top stories and videos.
October 4, 2016

Professor Josh Owen shares his ‘Lenses for Design’

Josh Owen, chair of the industrial design program, describes his unique creative process for solving design problems in his new book, Lenses for Design, published by RIT Press.
October 3, 2016

RIT presents Robert Bringhurst with Goudy Award

Robert Bringhurst, a leading poet, typographer and linguist, is the 2016 recipient of the Frederic W. Goudy Award, given to an outstanding practitioner in type design and its related fields by RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection and School of Media Sciences.
October 3, 2016

Women in Engineering hosts open house Nov. 5

Female engineering students from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering will host an open house for prospective students with hands-on activities, demonstrations and experiments. It is free and open to girls in grades 5-9 and their parents and teachers.
October 3, 2016

RIT offers graduate study open house Nov. 4

RIT’s Office of Graduate and Part-time Enrollment Services is hosting an open house for undergraduate students from other colleges and universities who may be considering graduate study options.
October 3, 2016

ACM president to open GCCIS Dean’s Lecture Series

RIT Distinguished Professor Vicki Hanson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery—the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society—will discuss the latest in computing accessibility and human-computer interaction on Oct. 14.
October 3, 2016

Reddit co-founder headlines SCB lecture series

Alexis Ohanian, the 33-year-old co-founder of the website Reddit, will speak Oct. 14 as part of the Saunders College of Business Gasser Lecture Series. He will discuss “Think like a startup: Insights from a digital entrepreneur and startup investor.”
October 3, 2016

Get ready to ROAR today

ROAR Day is a 24-hour window during which students, faculty and staff are encouraged to give back to their favorite area of RIT. For one day only, every student, faculty and staff gift between $5 and $40 will be matched by private donors.
October 3, 2016

Celebrate ‘International Observe the Moon Night’

The RIT Observatory will host an open house on Saturday for International Observe the Moon Night. The family-friendly event is free and open to the public.
September 30, 2016

Two new companies join Venture Creations

ThermApparel, a garment that helps regulate body temperature, and Positive Science, an eye-tracking system, have joined the Venture Creations business incubator at RIT.