RIT is moving its nationally recognized Division III men's hockey program to Division I. The Tigers are joining the Atlantic Hockey Association, whose officials made the announcement Dec. 15 during a news conference at the Gordon Field House. The move to Atlantic Hockey will be phased in over three years, with Division I games starting next season.

With the onslaught of e-mail, instant messaging and weblogs, social interaction has taken on new meaning. According to a recent New York Times article, “Blogs have gone from obscurity to ubiquity in a blink. Bloggers were selected as People of the Year by ABC News, and Merriam-Webster declared ‘blog’ as its Word of the Year.”

Integrated sensing systems are the way of the future—fusion of data from satellite-, aircraft- and ground-based sensors combined into an information package will give incident managers critical data at their fingertips whether confronting a wildfire or the aftermath of a dirty bomb.

Katherine Mayberry has been named vice president for academic affairs. She will report jointly to President Albert Simone and Stanley McKenzie, who has agreed to remain provost at RIT through June 2008.
Mayberry will maintain her current responsibilities in the areas of academic advising, teaching and learning, academic program development, and academic program review. The new position will focus primarily on student success and retention.

As part of RIT’s 175th anniversary celebration, a yearlong speaker series entitled Women in Leadership has been launched and features some of the nation’s most influential women in business, government, technology and the arts, sharing their insights and experience in their respective fields.