News by Topic: Faculty

  • October 3, 2018

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    RIT named among ‘Best Employers for Women’

    Forbes named RIT among this year’s list of the top 300 “Best Employers for Women.” The list recognizes organizations that support their female workforces in areas including pay equity, opportunities for advancement and family leave.
  • September 26, 2018

    The Faculty Career Exploration Program participants pose for a photo, standing on the stairs in front of the sustainability building on the Henrietta campus.

    RIT welcomes diverse rising stars

    RIT is welcoming diverse prospective faculty from across the country to explore teaching and post-doctoral opportunities at the university this week as part of the annual Future Faculty Career Exploration Program.
  • September 19, 2018

    Three people pose for a photo holding dt ogilvie's, center, plaque she received for the Trailblazer Award.

    Business professor earns Trailblazer Award

    Distinguished Professor of Urban Entrepreneurship dt ogilvie has been given the Trailblazer Award by The PhD Project Management Doctoral Student Association for her scholarly contribution to the field of management and her mentoring of faculty and doctoral students.
  • September 10, 2018

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    RIT wins collaborative award to improve STEM ecosystem

    RIT professor Casey Miller won $880,000 from the National Science Foundation INCLUDES program, which seeks to increase and strengthen efforts to create a diverse STEM workforce to meet the nation’s future needs and maintain its standing in research and development.
  • September 10, 2018

    A headshot of Bruce Myers.

    Bruce Myers to head School of Media Sciences

    Serving as interim administrative chair this past academic year, industry printing expert and associate professor Bruce Myers has been named director of RIT’s School of Media Sciences.
  • August 24, 2018

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    RIT garners record $78 million in research funding

    RIT’s sponsored research portfolio grew in fiscal year 2018, reaching a record $78 million in funding. RIT received 340 new awards and had a record 333 principal investigators associated with active research awards.
  • August 6, 2018

    A headshot of Iris Rivero.

    Iris Rivero named department head in KGCOE

    Iris Rivero, a faculty-researcher at Iowa State University and expert in additive and hybrid manufacturing, was recently named department head of industrial and systems engineering at RIT.
  • August 6, 2018

    Madi Zhunussov discusses floor plans and designs with two representatives from the Coalition of NorthEast Association. They sit across from each other at a table with the designs covering the table top.

    Students designing city’s future sustainably

    A research and design collaborative between RIT architecture students and faculty with community partners in and around the city of Rochester is bringing new thinking to neighborhoods in need.
  • August 1, 2018

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    Health app helps victims of domestic abuse

    Researchers and domestic violence advocates at RIT and Resolve of Greater Rochester created an avatar named RITa to provide “on demand” domestic violence expertise in primary care settings.