News Stories

September 25, 2015

RIT receives second consecutive diversity award

RIT received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the university's second consecutive HEED award.
September 25, 2015

RIT to offer online bachelor's in tech leadership

RIT Online will launch a new degree this year: a BS in Applied Technical Leadership, a program designed to allow working professionals to move forward in their career paths.
September 25, 2015

RIT makers invited to compete for $1 million

RIT students, alumni, faculty and staff are invited to submit their smart-device ideas to America’s Greatest Makers. Competitors will vie for a $1 million prize.
September 24, 2015

Student prepares improv team for Fringe Festival

Meet Andrew Ahlquist, a fourth-year game design and development student, and leader of The Improvessionals, an RIT improv group performing at the Rochester Fringe Festival.
September 23, 2015

RIT among top 10 colleges for getting a tech job

New rankings from StartClass ranked RIT 10th among the top 20 schools for getting a job in the tech industry.
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.