News Stories

March 18, 2016

Winner announced in 2016 Imagine RIT poster contest

Third-year new media design student Kelly Hurlburt’s design of an intricate and colorful machine formulated inside the numerals “2016” was chosen from among 75 entries.
March 18, 2016

RIT team places in Intel University Games Showcase

A class of RIT students won third place in the Best Visual Quality category of the 2016 Intel University Games Showcase for the video game Hack, Slash & Backstab.
March 17, 2016

RIT welcomes FIRST Robotics competitors March 25

More than 40 high school teams will meet for the FIRST Robotics Finger Lakes Regional on March 25-26 at the Gordon Field House and Activities Center.
March 17, 2016

RIT hosts young professionals conference

The Young Professionals in Higher Education Conference, March 25 at RIT, aims to provide the region’s young professionals with an opportunity to build skills and network.
March 17, 2016

MAGIC Spell Studios joins forces with Crytek

Crytek, a videogame developer, publisher and technology provider, has selected RIT to help develop seven new virtual reality labs as part of the VR First initiative.
March 17, 2016

Conference examines international migration

The fifth annual Conable Conference in International and Global Studies will explore what it means to frame human migration with sensational terminology such as “crisis.”
March 17, 2016

Students to compete on ABC’s ‘BattleBots’

Four RIT students will be competing in the second season of BattleBots, the hit TV show in which robots duel to the death. The team flies to Los Angeles in April.
March 17, 2016

Club volleyball finishes second in division

RIT’s women’s club volleyball team finished second in their division of the Northeast Women’s Volleyball Club League, their best finish in their four-year history.
March 17, 2016

But first, let me go to a selfie conference

The significance of the selfie, self-portraits and social media are the topics of RIT’s seventh William A. Kern Conference in Visual Communication, April 14-16.
March 16, 2016

RIT ranked among best graduate schools

Six graduate programs are ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, demonstrating the depth and breadth of quality educational opportunities.
March 15, 2016

Game design student wins Intel Award

Juliann Internicola has been selected for an Intel Scholars award at the 2016 Game Developers Conference, the world’s largest professional gaming industry event of the year.
March 15, 2016

RIT ranks among top video-game design schools

RIT is one of the top schools in the world to study—and launch a career in—game design for 2016, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review.