News Stories

July 22, 2016

RIT VP elected chair of RDDC executive committee

Deborah Stendardi, vice president of government and community relations, has been elected chair of the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation for 2016-2017.
July 20, 2016

Professor discusses dark matter research

Assistant professor Sukanya Chakrabarti presents “The Mystery of Dark Matter” on Aug. 5 at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, Calif.
July 20, 2016

RIT Press celebrates graphic designer Giusti

George Giusti: The Idea Is the Heart of the Matter, published by RIT Press, explores the life and achievements of the Italian-born and educated graphic designer.
July 20, 2016

RIT partners with National Taiwan University

The partnership provides students the opportunity to join graduate programs in NTU’s College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and RIT’s KGCOE.
July 18, 2016

RIT hosts Adult and Part-time Study Connection

The study connection is helpful to those who are looking to update professional skills, complete a graduate or undergraduate college degree part time, or change career paths.
July 18, 2016

John Tu promoted to senior associate dean

John Tu, a professor of management information systems in Saunders College of Business, has been promoted to senior associate dean.
July 18, 2016

Scientists attend general relativity conference

Papers related to the first detection of gravitational waves were presented by a team of RIT scientists at the International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation.
July 15, 2016

RIT leadership heads to Silicon Valley

A 90-member delegation from RIT is holding strategic meetings with 24 global high-tech companies and organizations in Silicon Valley, July 20 to 23.
July 14, 2016

RIT appoints its first chief marketing officer

RIT has chosen John K. Trierweiler to be its chief marketing officer, a new position for the university.
July 14, 2016

NTID celebrates growing number of Ph.D. candidates

Four NTID students were enrolled in the Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate program, which helps deaf and hard-of-hearing students earn doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines.
July 14, 2016

NTID receives grant from Motorola foundation

NTID will fund its Tech Girlz and Tech Boyz outreach programs with a grant from the Innovation Generation Grant program from the Motorola Solutions Foundation.
July 14, 2016

RIT awarded $1M for gravitational-wave astronomy

Carlos Lousto and Manuela Campanelli won separate grants from the National Science Foundation to further their research.