News Stories

October 29, 2013

Veterans Day Breakfast spotlights RIT patriots

RIT hosts its third annual Veterans Day Breakfast 8 to 10 a.m. Nov. 11. The celebration pays tribute to those who serve or have served honorably in uniform.
October 27, 2013

All clear — RIT Alert test

RIT just conducted a test of RIT Alert, the emergency mass notification system. If you did not receive any messages, you may need to sign up or update your contact data.
October 25, 2013

History professor featured on PBS documentary

Richard Newman is one of several scholars to appear in the second episode of the six-hour PBS documentary series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.
October 24, 2013

Play explores hilarity of blind dating

A Q&A with Nick Giordano, a third-year management information systems and political science double major and director of Check, Please, a 30-minute, one-act play.
October 23, 2013

RIT to test emergency alert system Sunday

All university students, faculty and staff will receive notification for the RIT Alert system test. No action is required.
October 23, 2013

Maxine Childress Brown talk and book signing

Former Rochester Councilwoman and assistant professor Maxine Childress Brown, who grew up with deaf parents, will talk about her new book on Nov. 12.
October 23, 2013

Learn about obtaining grants at workshop

National Science Foundation, RIT and University of Rochester will hold a workshop on Nov. 8 on the NSF proposal and merit review process.
October 22, 2013

Entrepreneurship Center names program director

Ebony Miller will be responsible for research, development, delivery and assessment of programming at the Saunders College of Business Center for Urban Entrepreneurship.
October 22, 2013

Osher names new program administrator

Mary Bistrovich will supervise Osher staff and work with Osher volunteer leadership to implement programs and activities.
October 22, 2013

RIT celebrates 75th anniversary of xerography

RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science will celebrate Chester Carlson and the invention of xerography with a screening of a documentary on Wednesday.
October 22, 2013

Alumnus returns as Edmund Lyon speaker

RIT/NTID alumnus Michael Bloomfield, database developer for BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, presents “Embrace Technology, Impact Your Career” on Thursday.
October 18, 2013

Program teaches first-year students how to learn

RIT is launching a National Science Foundation-funded program to improve the retention of deaf, hard-of-hearing and first-generation undergraduates majoring in STEM fields.