News Stories

January 27, 2014

RIT/NTID alumnus returns to ‘The Amazing Race’

Luke Adams ’08 and his mother, Margie O’Donnell, will be featured a third time on the popular CBS reality show The Amazing Race when the 24th season kicks off Feb. 23.
January 27, 2014

RIT professor named lecturer at Yale

David Merritt, professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, was named this year’s Boris Garfinkel Lecturer at Yale University.
January 27, 2014

Kridner of Beagleboard.org opens ARM Developer Day

Jason Kridner, co-founder of Beagleboard.org, an Open Source technology organization, will discuss software and hardware used in embedded computing at RIT’s ARM Developer Day.
January 27, 2014

Welcome back! Here’s what you missed

As students and faculty return to campus for spring semester, here is a look at what happened around RIT during intersession.
January 27, 2014

Nobel Laureate to give 2014 commencement address

William Daniel Phillips, an award-winning researcher with the National Institute of Standards and Technology who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, will speak May 23.
January 24, 2014

NYSP2I announces Community Grant recipients

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute is funding eight proposals from organizations statewide to promote and implement pollution-prevention practices.
January 23, 2014

Students accepted into business accelerator

The team of NTID students heads to the LEAP AXLR8R in San Francisco to further its work on a program that will help deaf and hearing people communicate more easily.
January 22, 2014

In-house RIT commercial to air nationally

Move over Super Bowl ads: RIT has its own TV commercial, created and produced on campus by students and alumni. The 30-second spot will air Jan. 24 on CBS Sports Network.
January 22, 2014

Statement from Destler on Executive Budget

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2014-15 state budget includes funding for an RIT Center of Excellence and the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute.
January 22, 2014

Schumer announces increase in funding for NTID

Sen. Charles Schumer applauded the work done educating NTID’s students and the success of more than 7,000 graduates during a visit to announce federal funding for the school.
January 21, 2014

Image Permanence Institute receives three grants

The national grants are related to sustainable preservation practices for managing the storage environment in collecting institutions.
January 21, 2014

Exhibits feature creative expressions of the deaf

The two exhibitions, open through Feb. 7, hold more than 70 pieces of work from local art patrons and the permanent collection of the Dyer Arts Center.