News Stories

May 15, 2013

Industrial design students head to NYC Design Week

Twenty-two students will exhibit their work from Metaproject 03, a collaborative design project between RIT and Areaware, this weekend during Design Week in New York City.
May 15, 2013

All Clear: Buildings 9 and 17 reopened

Crews responded to a gas alarm in the microelectronics building this morning. No problems were detected. Regular exam schedules have resumed.
May 14, 2013

Game design students win game narrative contest

Doug Lynn, Evan Miller, and Aaron Russell had to conduct a detailed structured analysis of the narrative elements of a video game title at the 2013 Game Developers Conference.
May 14, 2013

Saunders student receives outstanding senior award

Courtney Tennant, an honors student at RIT and ranked second in her graduating class, is the recipient of the RIT Outstanding Female Senior Award.
May 14, 2013

RIT hosts 2013 Baja World Challenge

The RIT Baja team will host national and international collegiate teams at the 2013 Baja World Challenge June 7-9 at RIT and at Hogback Hill in Palmyra, N.Y.
May 13, 2013

RIT contest spawns next generation of wordsmiths

Are you a techista? Rochester-area high school students submitted new words and their corresponding definitions for a Department of Communication contest.
May 13, 2013

RIT kicks off commencement weekend Friday

President Bill Destler will confer more than 3,500 degrees during Academic Convocation at 2 p.m. Friday. Watch a live video stream online.
May 10, 2013

Browse student art at SAC Walkthrough

The popular annual open-studios event for the ceramics, glass, furniture design, metals and jewelry design studios takes place from 4 to 7 p.m. on May 13 in Booth Hall.
May 10, 2013

Students design products for Rivers Run residents

Industrial design students present their design concepts that improve upon everyday product for the kitchen to the garden for residents of the senior living community.
May 9, 2013

Relay for Life to benefit American Cancer Society

Participants in the overnight fundraiser May 11–12 will walk for 12 hours around the main RIT entrance and camp out for the night.
May 8, 2013

Boost brain power at summer workshop

Knowledge Representation: From Data to Knowledge on July 16–19 will focus on bio-medical informatics, linguistics, epistemology and more.
May 8, 2013

Students create 3-D reconstruction of Big Shot

Professor Carl Salvaggio and two imaging science graduate students produced a three-dimensional reconstruction of Cowboys Stadium.