News by Topic: Community Outreach

Scientists from RIT are turning studio photography technology on its head to help museums and other cultural heritage institutions preserve historically significant artifacts.

Jessica Wagner and her classmates put together a plan to tame the traffic near Rochester’s International Plaza on Clinton Avenue. Students like Wagner, who are participating in RIT’s Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars program, are finding ways to integrate technical coursework with personal interests for careers that matter.

Underserved students from the city of Rochester with a strong interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology recently participated in an immersive, weeklong course at RIT to learn the latest about digital currency through its RIT Certified initiative.

WROC-TV talks to Kaeti Stoss, environmental education specialist in the College of Science, about the On The Canal program.

WPMT-TV talks to Olivia Kuzio, a color science Ph.D. student, about an imaging system developed by RIT that is being used to study historical items.

More than 1,000 openings in the Finger Lakes region for skilled machinists are projected in the coming years. Local academic researchers and industry partners are developing new training options to fill the expected gaps—integrating gaming and virtual reality to appeal to a younger generation of manufacturing professionals.

A hospitality workforce training program run by Saunders College of Business is responding both to the needs of underserved immigrants and refugees seeking meaningful work and an industry that has been devastated by staff shortages wrought by the pandemic.

RIT’s MAGIC Center has developed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rochester Community TV to partner on an initiative to equip Rochester City School District high school students with actionable skills and provide exposure to future career opportunities in the growing video game industry.

The Democrat and Chronicle features its 2022 Revising the Rochester Narrative summer fellows: Genae Shields '22 (photojournalism); Madeline Lathrop, fourth-year journalism student; and Justice Marbury '22 (photojournalism).

WXXI’s “Connections” program talks to Erich Lehman ’97 (electronic media publishing), ’99 MS (crossmedia publishing), systems administrator in the College of Art and Design and co-curator and lead organizer of WALL/THERAPY, an art and community intervention project.

For the first time since the start of the pandemic, RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship is once again hosting its Business Pitch competition, open to all businesses operating within Monroe County. The winner will be awarded $25,000.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) has announced 13 winners of its 2022-2023 Community Grants Program as part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to continue improving the health and environmental quality of New York state.