RIT’s University News Services, Human Resources department and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf’s media relations division took home eight PRism Awards at the 2007 PRism Awards ceremony, sponsored by the Rochester chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and PR Newswire

A partnership between RIT and the Greater Rochester Urban Bounty, or GRUB, will give seven students a chance to share their expertise with the community and to get something back in return. GRUB is a neighborhood revitalization initiative in northeast Rochester that includes a

With the evolution of picture taking and making over the past decade, RIT faculty, staff and alumni have revised a comprehensive photography encyclopedia to reflect the changes in both film and digital technologies. Michael Peres, chair of the biomedical photographic communications department in RIT’s School

Wiley McKinzie, the current Miller Professor and former dean of RIT’s College of Applied Science and Technology, is joining RIT’s Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. McKinzie has been named the college’s vice dean, a newly created position. McKinzie will be responsible for enhancing

RIT announces the appointment of Jerome Mahone as executive director of Venture Creations, RIT’s high-technology incubator. Mahone comes to RIT with experience in university-based business incubators, playing a major role in the development of startup companies that created new jobs and exceed a combined $100

RIT has added a new member to its Board of Trustees. Willem Appelo is vice president of the Xerox Strategic Services Group at Xerox Corp., a position he was appointed to in December 2002. Appelo, who joined Xerox in 1991, has corporate responsibility for the design

Dateline RIT e-newsletter subscribers: Check your e-mail inbox for the most recent edition of the RIT University News e-newsletter, Dateline: RIT–which now features links to more RIT news than ever before, along with a new look (in familiar RIT orange and brown–consistent with the

Qimonda AG, a global supplier of dynamic random access memory (commonly called DRAM) products, has given a capacitance-voltage characterization test station to RIT’s microelectronic engineering department in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. Using the station, students will test devices they’ve fabricated in the

The Offices of Part-time and Graduate Enrollment Services will sponsor an information forum for adults who are interested in starting or continuing their education on a part-time evening basis. The session will be 5-7 p.m. July 25 in the Bausch and Lomb Center. For

Timothy Interlichia, a packaging science major, was one of eight students nationally to win a trip to Italy to visit the top Italian packaging companies last month. The Italian Packaging Awards program, sponsored by the Italian Trade Commission, the Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Association

Three members of the RIT men’s track and field team were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American team. Stephen Burns, Andrew Varble and Kevin Smith were each third-team selections. Burns, an All-American selection in 2006, earned a 3.83 grade point average in business.