News Stories

May 2, 2013

Photo professor shares wife’s cancer journey

An exhibit representing Professor Willie Osterman’s documentation of his wife’s chemotherapy opens Friday at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.
May 2, 2013

Students give new life to old books

A class of industrial design majors turned old library materials and other reclaimed materials into pieces of furniture. Their work will be on display at Imagine RIT.
May 1, 2013

Top stories and videos for April

News on the winner of the Imagine RIT poster contest topped last month’s list of top RIT news stories. Check out all of April’s most popular stories.
May 1, 2013

Student teams share ideas to go green

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at RIT announces the winners of its “Go Green on Campus” competition.
May 1, 2013

Students design plans for entrepreneurship center

Katriel Pitts, Seth Gottlieb and Yevgeniy Parfilko were awarded $500 for their submission to the Design and Vision Competition for the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship.
May 1, 2013

Sustainability can be ‘eco-fabulous’ for all ages

The “Eco-Fabulous: Homemade Science and Sustainability” exhibit features child-friendly sustainability “experiments” and activities that visitors can conduct at home.
April 30, 2013

Performing LIVE at RIT: ‘Bands on the Bricks’

“Bands on the Bricks: A Retrospective” features original concert posters, photographs and album covers documenting more than 60 concerts held at RIT since 1950.
April 30, 2013

Liberal Arts student wins Pickering Fellowship

Kate Macken, a fourth-year international and global studies student, has been awarded the Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship.
April 30, 2013

RIT Inn manager wins award

Ronnie McCrea is the recipient of the Outstanding Manager of the Year award from the New York State Hospitality & Tourism Association.
April 30, 2013

Invisible captioning is the Next Big Idea

Four teams of students from NTID participated in Next Big Idea competition. First place and $5,000 was awarded to the team that created an invisible captioning system.
April 30, 2013

Search for the Escherian Stairwell

Is it possible for a staircase to violate the laws of physics by looping back into itself? Student Michael Lacanilao spotlights the Escherian Stairwell in his video series.
April 29, 2013

Baja team places in top-10 overall

RIT’s SAE Baja race team placed ninth overall among 85 U.S. and international collegiate design teams competing April 18-21 at Tennessee Tech in Cookesville, Tenn.