RIT is moving forward with plans for a senior living community at the former Racquet Club apartment complex along the Genesee River. The community will be called Rivers Run and will be limited to adults at least 55 years old. The development will include 152 living units: 82 one- and two-bedroom apartments in the main building and 70 cottages configured in three- and four-unit clusters. Rent will range from $1,850 for the one-bedroom units to $2,550 for a cottage with an optional den.

RIT communications projects received high honors in the 2004 PRism Awards program of the Rochester chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. For the second time in two years, The University Magazine won the top honor, a PRism Award, in the not-for-profit magazine category. A second PRism Award, in the public service announcement category, was presented for two 30-second videos produced by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

RIT’s Defense Modernization and Sustainment Initiative is expected to receive an additional infusion of funds once the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Appropriations bill is passed by Congress. Both the House and Senate versions of the bill include funding for the project, which has received $17 million over the past seven years to conduct research on ways to extend the life expectancy of military equipment and develop technologies and decision-support systems for use in determining when and how to upgrade and modernize these systems.