News by Topic: Diversity

WROC-TV features Tina Chapman DaCosta, Diversity Theatre Program director.

Meet Lawrence Lee, an electrical engineering dual-degree student from Yonkers, N.Y., who is passionate about promoting diversity and helping his fellow AALANA students succeed.

The RIT community will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with its second annual Let Freedom Ring event, featuring music, dance and excerpts from some of King’s most notable speeches. Performers include the RIT/NTID Dance Company, the RIT String Quartet and keynote speaker Greg Pollock ’12.

The program for RIT’s 37th annual Expressions of King’s Legacy event includes viral female tap dance band Syncopated Ladies and accomplished opera singer Kiersten Piper Brown. They will perform ahead of keynote speaker and CNN political commentator Tara Setmayer.

Although they attend colleges thousands of miles away, student leaders from RIT’s global campuses found common goals to improve student experiences, cultural understanding and lasting friendships at the sixth annual Student Government Global Consortium.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 6: Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Brittany Vanderhoof, Ph.D. student in astrophysical sciences and technology, discuss their career paths, the opportunities and challenges for women in the sciences and their own efforts to be role models for future generations of scientists.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 5: Ricardo Carrion, a second-year chemistry major, talks with his faculty mentor, research professor Hans Schmitthenner, about overcoming life’s challenges and helping students from diverse backgrounds achieve their potential.

Students in RIT’s Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition spent two weeks traversing Ghana as part of a global research experience to learn more about the toll of anemia on the West African nation’s women and children.

This marks the ninth time RIT has appeared on the list, published by Winds of Change magazine. RIT was recognized in part for the Native American Future Stewards Program, the Native American Student Association and the student chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

David Blight, a renowned historian whose new book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, has been published to glowing reviews, will be in Rochester Dec. 3 and 4 for two engagements co-sponsored by RIT.

The unique blend of deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing students performing on stage together will guarantee theater-goers a one-of-a-kind experience at the debut of the Tony-award winning classic Cabaret at RIT.

Hundreds of veterans, their families and friends attended the eight Annual RIT Veterans Day Breakfast today.