News Stories

September 29, 2016

Student helps to prepare for ROAR Day

Meet Kaitie Spaude, a third-year dual major in journalism and media arts and technology and a student organizer for next week’s ROAR Day.
September 29, 2016

NTID celebrates closing of Deaf Awareness Week

NTID wraps up Rochester’s Deaf Awareness Week on Saturday with a presentation, plaque dedication and Sunshine 2.0 theater performance.
September 28, 2016

NTID hosts job fair Oct. 19

Representatives from more than 40 local and national corporations, federal agencies and nonprofit organizations will meet with hundreds of deaf and hard-of-hearing students—who are also prospective employees—at the 16th annual job fair on Oct. 19.
September 28, 2016

RIT establishes Data and Predictive Analytics Center

The Data and Predictive Analytics Center in the College of Science will focus on collecting, transforming, modeling and visualizing data sets often referred to as “big data.”
September 28, 2016

Melisza Campos named 2016 Minett Professor

Melisza Campos, a nationally recognized Dale Carnegie master trainer and workforce leader, was appointed the 2016-17 Frederick H. Minett Professor. The Minett Professorship brings distinguished Rochester-area multicultural professionals to the RIT campus to share their experience.
September 28, 2016

Students host forum to build bond between community, police

A group of RIT students is hoping to build a bond between civil servants and the community by holding a barbecue and discussion on campus with uniformed emergency personnel from Rochester.
September 27, 2016

Diagnostic medical sonography program accredited

RIT’s diagnostic medical sonography program has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.
September 27, 2016

RIT named in $4.2 million NSF grant

The Upstate New York Alliance for Entrepreneurial Innovation—a partnership of Cornell University, RIT and University of Rochester—has been awarded $4.2 million from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Program.
September 27, 2016

NSF-funded project aims to increase diversity in physics education

RIT is collaborating with the American Physical Society to transform physics graduate education with the goal of building a scientific workforce that reflects the nation’s shifting demographics and ensures U.S. technological leadership.
September 27, 2016

Hundreds of employers seek students at annual fall Career Fair

Nearly 250 employing organizations and hundreds of recruiter representatives seeking RIT students and graduates are attending the Fall 2016 Career Fair Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Gordon Field House.
September 27, 2016

RIT’s University Gallery to host Design Conversations lecture

Marcia Lausen, author of the book Design for Democracy, will speak at RIT on Tuesday, Sept. 27.
September 26, 2016

RIT to welcome hundreds of entrepreneurship experts

This weekend, more than 425 entrepreneurship experts will arrive in Rochester, as the city showcases two universities’ entrepreneurial expertise and endeavors as well as dynamic growth, excellence in programming and the impact on the local community and beyond.