News Stories

October 28, 2015

RIT to offer bachelor’s in digital humanities

RIT will offer a new major in digital humanities and social sciences starting Fall 2016. It will combine liberal arts studies with technical courses like computer programming.
October 28, 2015

RIT websites among W3 ‘best of the Web’

For the fourth year in a row, RIT Production Services has been recognized for its website designs, taking one gold and two silver awards in the 2015 W3 design competition.
October 27, 2015

Successful first flight for RIT SPEX group

Sunday morning, the RIT Space Exploration group launched a high-altitude weather balloon that soared higher than 99,000 feet before bursting and landing somewhere in Maine.
October 27, 2015

RIT professor helps preserve languages of Amazonia

Wilson de Lima Silva, assistant professor of linguistics, has received a three-year $160,591 grant to help preserve Siriano and Desano, languages of the Tukanoan family.
October 26, 2015

RIT takes third in national design competition

An interdisciplinary team of RIT students was awarded third place in the national Paperboard Packaging Alliance's 2015 Student Design Challenge.
October 26, 2015

Tiger Tank 2015 names winners

The Tiger Tank competition came to a close at the 12th annual Entrepreneurship conference last Friday. ShoRaq, an intuitive shopping interface, took first place.
October 23, 2015

Two graduate students design new RIT buses

Meet Rootwa Sagar and Trina Ray, the visual communication design graduate students behind the design of the new orange buses driving around campus.
October 22, 2015

Women in Engineering, Computing open house Nov. 7

Women in Engineering and Women in Computing will house an open house from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 7. Girls in 5th through 9th grades can come learn about STEM opportunities.
October 22, 2015

Dean of Graduate Studies to step down

Hector Flores is stepping down as dean of Graduate Studies at RIT to become president of the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics.
October 22, 2015

Nearly 400 students attend RIT/NTID job fair

Representatives from more than 45 local and national corporations, federal agencies and non-profit organizations met with 400 deaf or hard-of-hearing students yesterday.
October 22, 2015

One Day Immersion in communication set for Friday

RIT will be part of a daylong national conference stream covering a variety of topics in the media industry. The conference is free to students, faculty and staff.
October 21, 2015

Steven Sasson leads engineering seminar Oct. 23

Steven Sasson, inventor of the digital camera and member of RIT’s Imaging Hall of Fame, will discuss the story of that invention at noon on Friday in the Xerox Auditorium.