Today’s Top Stories

RIT Press to bring Vignelli book back into print
RIT Press and an enthusiastic group of crowdfunders have revitalized a book that profiles the most iconic work of world-renowned Italian designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli. This August, RIT Press will release an exact reprint of the original, 196-page Vignelli: From A to Z. read more » | watch video »

Drawing new insights from gravitational waves
Richard O’Shaughnessy and collaborators reanalyzed the merging black holes detected by LIGO last year, linking the black hole’s misalignment to when it formed from the death of a massive star. The force expelled the newborn black hole with a “natal kick,” causing the misalignment. read more »

Student Newsmakers

Student presents at Vision Science Society meeting
Kamran Binaee, a Ph.D. student in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, delivered his talk, “Modeling Hand-Eye Movements in a Virtual Ball Catching Setup Using Deep Recurrent Neural Network,” at the annual meeting of the Vision Science Society May 19-24 at St. Pete Beach, Fla. read more »

Sports News

Michael Kist, Chris Schwab garner 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-District honors
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Jess Calzolari named a 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-District selection
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RIT in the News

WROC-TV
RIT on TV: Paris Climate Accord
Enid Cardinal, senior sustainability advisor, interviewed more »

USA Today
The top 10 colleges for degree in management information systems
Saunders College of Business mentioned more »

GoodCall
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic - and 'Oracy' and Critical Thinking
Jennifer Schneider, the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking, quoted more »

New York Post
Dems' problem is with the working class, empty climate promises & other comments
A.J. Caschetta, senior lecturer, Department of English, quoted more »

The Philadelphia Inquirer
The art of communication
Rea Rossi '09 (metalcrafts and jewelry design) featured more »