RIT’s Division of Student Affairs honored 26 employees for length of service and presented awards for outstanding service at an annual recognition brunch in December.
Six RIT College of Business MBA students had the opportunity to attend a conference in San Francisco in mid-December on eradicating poverty through profits.
Celebrating 175: Spotlight on Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Blogging. Gigabytes. Wi-Fi. These are the newest buzzwords in the age of computers. Here’s something else in the computer world that’s abuzz—the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. As RIT celebrates its 175th anniversary, GCCIS—the largest college of its kind in the nation—has a lot of milestones to celebrate from its three-year history.
Jared
Stehler writes in code, but he got his message across to IBM CEO Sam
Palmisano. Stehler, a fifth-year computer science student met the company’s
top executive in August while working for IBM’s Extreme Blue—a
premier intern program that draws students from around the world.
Campus Connection bookstore is turning 20! As a thank you, the store will host special events each day until Jan. 25. For example, every day until Jan. 25, the first 100 customers will receive money-saving coupons.
Bloomfield School District students, above, were among two dozen sixth- and seventh-grade girls from Rochester-area schools at RIT Dec. 10-12 for the interactive workshop, "Park & Ride: Amusement Park Ride Design-An Engineering Program for Middle School Girls." Organized by RIT's Women In Engineering Center in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and the university's student section of the Society of Women Engineers, the two-and-a-half-day workshop featured LEGO robotic projects aimed at sparking the girls' interest in engineering. "I think it's fun to build things," observed one of the future engineers.
