News Stories

April 28, 2016

Two from RIT win Fulbright fellowships

An RIT student and an alumna have won prestigious Fulbright fellowships for the 2016-17 academic year.
April 27, 2016

RIT to host national Climate Leadership Summit

RIT was one of six U.S. locations selected to host the summit, designed to educated student leaders on issues that have a profound effect on climate.
April 27, 2016

Video games featured at PAX East Indie showcase

Three video games with ties to RIT were featured at the national PAX East Indie Showcase, one of North America’s largest gaming events, April 22–24 in Boston.
April 27, 2016

NTID student committed to serving community

Meet Susana Flores, a fourth-year museum studies student, who is graduating in May, and community service director for the Latin American Deaf Club.
April 27, 2016

Lecture focuses on racial violence

Jose Medina, a philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University, presents “No Justice, No Peace: Racial Violence, Epistemic Death, and Insurrection” on May 4.
April 27, 2016

Conference explores happiness in Bhutan

The symposium “Bhutan’s Philosophy of Gross National Happiness and its Relevance for Western Society” will study happiness and how happiness is treasured in Bhutan.
April 27, 2016

Turn food scraps into soap at Imagine RIT

Students from the Golisano Institute for Sustainability will feature natural soaps produced from food waste.
April 27, 2016

Get on the list at Walk the Moon

Alumnus Scott Saldinger is organizing a bone marrow drive at Saturday’s Walk the Moon concert to sign concertgoers up for the international bone marrow registry.
April 26, 2016

See ‘The Universe in a Jar’ at Imagine RIT

Students in RIT’s astrophysical sciences and technology program will illustrate astrophysical concepts, proportions and statistics with table-top models and common items.
April 26, 2016

Go, Stay, Eat at Imagine RIT

Hospitality students will take Imagine RIT festival goers to places they may have only dreamed about—Dubai, Croatia, Hollywood—without ever leaving the Gordon Field House.
April 26, 2016

Professor speaks at conference in Saudi Arabia

Santosh Kurinec was the keynote speaker at the National Science Foundation-King Abdullah University of Science and Technology annual conference.
April 26, 2016

Professor named interim leader of diversity office

Keith Jenkins, director of Undergraduate Programs in the College of Liberal Arts, has been appointed interim vice president and associate provost for Diversity and Inclusion.