News Stories

September 23, 2015

Deaf hip-hop artist Sean Forbes to perform at RIT

Sean Forbes, deaf hip-hop artist and RIT alum, will perform on campus at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in Panara Theatre. Tickets are on sale now for $10.
September 23, 2015

RIT events continue at Rochester Fringe Festival

Around 2,500 people attended free performances and events by RIT students, faculty and staff during the first weekend of the 2015 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival.
September 23, 2015

Wegman Foundation makes $1.5 million gift to RIT

A $1.5 million gift from The Wegman Family Charitable Foundation will enable university officials to more than double the size of the MAGIC Spell Studios sound stage.
September 22, 2015

Welcome to Merit

RIT uses Merit to share students’ academic accomplishments with their friends and family through their social media networks and their hometown newspapers.
September 22, 2015

Eileen Pollack talks STEM discipline gender bias

Novelist, essayist and short-story writer Eileen Pollack will discuss gender bias in STEM fields at 1 p.m. Sept. 25 in Ingle Auditorium. A book signing will follow.
September 22, 2015

$500,000 earned to study deaf/hearing interactions

An RIT/NTID research team has earned a $500,000 grant to study how hearing, hard of hearing and deaf STEM students communicate and understand common subject material.
September 21, 2015

NASA's Clayton Turner to open speaker series

Clayton Turner, NASA's deputy director of Langley Research Center, will open the 2015 Dean's Alumni Speaker Series at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Xerox Auditorium.
September 18, 2015

Local NTID alumna directs video debuting on People

The music video for "Home," performed by Phillip Phillips, was coordinated by Stacy Lawrence, a graduate of RIT/NTID and a Brighton resident.
September 17, 2015

Freshman represents U.S. in physics tournament

Meet John Lukowski, a first-year electrical engineering major. Lukowski competed in the International Young Physicists' Tournament in Thailand over the summer.
September 17, 2015

University News talks about today's media climate

University News staff will discuss the role of RIT's news office and best practices for obtaining publicity in a changing media climate from 3 to 4:15 p.m. Sept. 21.
September 17, 2015

RIT to test emergency alert system Sept. 20

RIT will conduct a test of RIT Alert, the emergency notification system, at approximately 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. This is only a test; no action is needed.
September 15, 2015

RIT part of group awarded NNMI grant

The grant was awarded to a consortium of 162 companies, universities and nonprofits to create the Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronics.