News Stories

April 2, 2013

Workshops planned on designing TigerTerm courses

RIT faculty interested in learning more about offering and preparing a TigerTermSM course are invited to attend events set for April 18 and 19.
April 2, 2013

Smith named director of downtown center

Delmonize Smith, a professor of management, has been appointed as the first director of RIT’s new Center for Urban Entrepreneurship in downtown Rochester.
April 1, 2013

Top stories and videos for March

Coverage of RIT’s latest rankings and the Big Shot project topped last month’s list of top RIT news stories. Check out all of March’s most popular stories.
April 1, 2013

Professor studies improving bridge design

Amanda Bao, assistant professor of civil engineering technology, is researching how to increase load resistance and capacity of bridges—even during earthquakes or tsunamis.
April 1, 2013

Former IBM researcher joins Golisano College

Vicki Hanson, from the University of Dundee in Scotland, joins the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences in Fall 2013.
April 1, 2013

Area college entrepreneurs compete in state finals

Two dozen teams of entrepreneurs will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges in the Finger Lakes Regional Semi-Finalist round of the New York State Business Plan Competition.
April 1, 2013

Tiger design wins Imagine RIT poster contest

The winning design was created by Trinh D.H. Le, a fourth-year new media design and imaging student, and 5,000 copies of the poster will be distributed to festival visitors.
March 29, 2013

RIT to host Northeast LGBT Conference April 12–14

The Northeast Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Conference aims to celebrate, educate and empower LGBT community members and leaders to become supportive agents of change.
March 28, 2013

Saunders College cited in top business schools

The E. Philip Saunders College of Business is recognized in the top 100 programs listed in the 2013 Best Undergraduate B-Schools rankings by Bloomberg Businessweek.
March 28, 2013

Red Hat gives gift to MAGIC Center

Red Hat Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, has made a gift to RIT’s new Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity.
March 28, 2013

A tree-hugger and proud of it

A Q&A with Ishmael Akahoho, second-year environmental sustainability, health and safety management
March 28, 2013

Researcher to present on affective computing

Rosalind Picard, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT, is the next speaker in The Digital Humanities Distinguished Speaker Series on April 3.