News Stories

November 16, 2016

Professor: High-end chefs’ success starts at home

In a new study, John Ettlie, professor and Rosett Chair for Research at RIT’s Saunders College of Business, found that success as a master chef of haute cuisine depends less on going to culinary school than having an innovative support team along the way.
November 16, 2016

Researchers fix Landsat 8 imagery, measurements

Software developed by Aaron Gerace and Matt Montanaro, senior scientists at RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, improves the accuracy of NASA’s Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite, which was giving inaccurate readings due to defective optics in the thermal infrared sensor.
November 15, 2016

RIT officially launches MAGIC Spell Studios

RIT today launched the building that will house MAGIC Spell Studios, a first-of-its-kind effort in higher education that will link RIT’s internationally ranked academic programs with high-tech facilities needed to commercialize computer gaming, film and animation, and digital media projects.
November 15, 2016

Jazz orchestra pays tribute to Shakespeare

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s “Such Sweet Thunder,” music inspired by sonnets, characters and characterizations from William Shakespeare, will be performed by the New Energy Jazz Orchestra on Friday at RIT, part of the yearlong commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
November 15, 2016

Business club hosts ice skating fundraiser

RIT’s Women in Business club hopes to raise $500 to help send a Make-A-Wish child to Disney World. The club is offering ice skating from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday in Ritter Arena. Admission is $5 and includes skate rental, snacks and submarine sandwiches.
November 15, 2016

RIT recognizes faculty and staff alumni Thursday

Four alumni have been named as the 2016 Golden Brick Award winners, an award that was founded in 2010 and recognizes faculty and staff alumni who have gone above and beyond in connecting and engaging with graduates and supporting RIT.
November 14, 2016

Nominations for public service award due Jan. 25

Nominations for the Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award, which recognizes exemplary public service by a current member of the faculty or staff, are due by Wednesday.
November 14, 2016

Precision Optical Transceivers joins RIT initiative

Precision Optical Transceivers Inc. has become the first member of RIT’s Future Photon Initiative Industry Partnerships Program. The initiative develops collaborations with commercial entities to advance photonic technology and innovations.
November 14, 2016

RIT Middle States Self-Study

RIT’s final Self-Study is due to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in February 2017. The MSCHE Steering Committee invites the RIT community to offer feedback by Nov. 21.
November 14, 2016

Student selected for Gandhi Institute fellowship

Janine Burge, who is studying psychology and urban studies in RIT’s School of Individualized Study and sociology and anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, has been selected as a 2016-17 Gandhi Institute Service Fellow at the Rochester-based M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.
November 11, 2016

Engineering students take top honors at conference

Mario Saucedo-Espinosa, a microsystems engineering doctoral student, and Maria Romero-Creel, a fifth-year biomedical engineering student, took top honors at the annual 2016 SciX Conference for work in microscale separations and microfluidics.
November 11, 2016

RIT names three new members to Board of Trustees

Darshan Hiranandani, managing director of Hiranandani Group of Companies; Andrew Jacobson, enrolled agent at Maverick Business Services (retired); and Christopher Lehfeldt, dentist at Elmwood Dental Group PC and Finger Lakes Community Health, were named to RIT’s Board of Trustees on Nov. 10.