News Stories

June 16, 2016

RIT/NTID appoints alumnus outreach coordinator

Actor, choreographer and deaf community advocate Fred Michael Beam has been named outreach coordinator for Sunshine 2.0, the new theater outreach program at NTID.
June 15, 2016

Gravitational waves validate discovery

Gravitational waves from a second pair of colliding black holes has validated the landmark discovery from earlier this year.
June 14, 2016

RIT Dubai student wins first prize

An undergraduate business student from RIT's global campus, RIT Dubai, competed against 724 international teams to win first prize in the X-Culture project.
June 14, 2016

RIT alumnus coping with crisis communications

An RIT alumnus and board member of Come Out With Pride Orlando said the worst mass shooting in American history will make the gay community stronger.
June 13, 2016

Small stars pack big punch for developing planets

Young stars less massive than the sun can unleash a torrent of X-ray radiation that can significantly shorten the lifetime of planet-forming disks surrounding these stars.
June 13, 2016

RIT finishes second overall at Baja SAE Rochester

RIT Baja closed the 2016 Baja SAE Rochester event finishing second overall among 100 collegiate race teams.
June 9, 2016

RIT recognized for supporting employee wellness

RIT was named a recipient of this year’s Wealth of Health awards for having a wellness program to help employees stay healthy, lose weight, quit smoking and reduce stress.
June 8, 2016

Hanson to lead Association of Computing Machinery

Distinguished Professor Vicki Hanson was elected president of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
June 8, 2016

RIT hosts cybersecurity forum

Business leaders and cybersecurity experts will gather at RIT on June 14 to discuss ways to increase cybersecurity awareness and change behavior in order to keep data secure.
June 7, 2016

Osher offers summer classes for those 50-plus

Thinkers age 50 and older will be able to explore a number of fascinating programs for a discounted rate this summer at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT.
June 7, 2016

RIT forms Center for Cybersecurity

Matthew Wright, a leading expert in internet security and privacy, will join RIT in August as director of the new Center for Cybersecurity.
June 2, 2016

Pengcheng Shi to lead GCCIS in research

Pengcheng Shi, director of the computing and information sciences Ph.D. program, has been named associate dean for Research and Scholarship of the B. Thomas Golisano College.