News Stories

August 1, 2013

History professor to lead lecture series

Michael Laver has been selected director of the new Stan McKenzie Salon Series, named for the former provost and retired longtime English department faculty member.
August 1, 2013

Graduate students earn kudos at conference

Several RIT graduate students were honored with cash prizes at RIT’s 5th annual Graduate Student Research and Creativity Symposium on July 23.
July 31, 2013

Business school now Saunders College of Business

Effective immediately, Rochester Institute of Technology has renamed the E. Philip Saunders College of Business to Saunders College of Business.
July 30, 2013

Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords headline homecoming

Brick City Weekend features a talk by astronaut Mark Kelly and former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and a performance by comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood.
July 30, 2013

RIT hosts 22nd Undergraduate Research Symposium

Nearly 160 presentations are planned for the symposium, to be held at the RIT Inn & Conference Center on Friday.
July 30, 2013

Student creates new social initiative for women

RIT Dubai student Tarun Yenna helped establish Ladies Link, a community mentoring and professional support network for women in the United Arab Emirates.
July 29, 2013

Student wins Texas Instruments design contest

Physics major Adam Munich won $10,000 for his improvements to the Tesla coil, an alternating current electrical system.
July 26, 2013

Professor named to journal editorial board

David Messinger was invited to join the editorial board for Optical Engineering, the journal of the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
July 26, 2013

RIT professor named visiting professor at URMC

María Helguera, professor in RIT’s Carlson Center for Imaging Science, was appointed to the Wedd Visiting Professor Chair at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
July 25, 2013

Book decodes the world of comics

Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments, published by RIT Press, explains how comics create meaning for readers.
July 24, 2013

RIT to grow math workshops into national model

With a $120,000 grant from the Toyota USA Foundation, RIT will expand its Summer Mathematics Institute Teachers’ Workshop into a national model.
July 23, 2013

RIT partners with green biotech company

Sweetwater Energy, which makes a concentrated plant-sugar mixture for production of biofuels, biochemicals and bioplastics, seeks to develop a pipeline of RIT students.