News Stories

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.
May 7, 2013

Film student working on ‘Spider-Man 2’

Loren Azlein is working as a camera production assistant for the movie, now filming a car chase scene in downtown Rochester.
May 6, 2013

Engineering projects recognized at conference

Three teams from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering will be attending the American Society of Mechanical Engineering 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference in June.
May 6, 2013

RIT honors its outstanding adult students

Three students have received the Outstanding Adult Student award for successfully combining full-time college study with other adult responsibilities.
May 6, 2013

Innovation Hall of Famers share inspirations

An informal panel discussion with the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame inductees was held during Saturday’s Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.