News Stories

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.
November 11, 2016

Students compete in cybersecurity competition

College students from Maine to California traveled to RIT to test their hacking skills in the annual Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition. University of Central Florida took home the top trophy in the competition, while University at Buffalo placed second and RIT placed third.
November 10, 2016

Graduate student finds family in peers

Meet Sanjay Varma Rudraraju, a computer science graduate student from Visakhapatnam, India. He works in The Wallace Center and recently participated in The Giant Read, in which RIT students visited School No. 5 in the city of Rochester and read to first-graders.
November 10, 2016

Galleries to honor Norman Ives

The first-ever major retrospective exhibition highlighting the work of Norman Ives—a renowned Yale University artist and designer—will be on display at both RIT’s University and Bevier galleries from Nov. 18 to Jan. 6.
November 10, 2016

Local video game developers, entrepreneurs visit

Brothers Karthik and Guha Bala, co-founders of video game giant Vicarious Visions, will speak on Monday in Student Innovation Hall.
November 9, 2016

Professor images diaries of 19th-century explorer

Multispectral imaging technology continues to recover new insights from the field diaries of 19th-century explorer David Livingstone. A team of scholars and scientists, including RIT Professor Roger Easton, will present their research in the United Kingdom in November.