The RIT Libraries have received the 2006 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award sponsored by Blackwell’s Book Services and The Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. RIT Libraries, comprised of Wallace Library

The discovery of dusty disks—the building blocks of planets—around two of the most massive stars known suggests that planets might form and survive in surprisingly hostile environments. The discovery was made through NASA’s Spitzer Space

One of the focal points to RIT’s expanding portfolio of research initiatives will be formally dedicated during an on-campus celebration. The IT Collaboratory Building, a recently constructed three-story facility directly north of the Center for Microelectronics and Computer

Move over Bono and Kanye. Make way for RIT’s Steve LaLonde in podcast land. For spring quarter, LaLonde will be offering a graduate class—applied multivariate statistics—to students via podcast. It will be the first-ever class offered through podcasting at RIT. Podcasting

As a junior at Council Rock High School, in Newtown, Pa., Christina Bryce was told by a guidance counselor that she wasn’t college material. But Bryce knew that she didn’t want to spend the rest of her life working in a supermarket, where she held a part-time job at

Members of RIT’s men’s baseball and lacrosse teams form impressive lineups, but that’s not just on the playing field. On Feb. 9, each of these groups of student athletes “lined up” in the Student Life Center to make a monetary contribution to RIT. “I’ve talked to

Jennifer Friede is a student at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. She is also a budding artist who creates by thinking and doing. Or, as renowned artist Leonardo da Vinci once explained, “Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.”

Two initiatives concerned with equal access to technological education and career awareness for deaf students have been awarded grant monies for 2006. The Nippon Foundation of Japan has awarded $1.1 million to the NTID-sponsored Postsecondary Education