One need look only at current gas prices to recognize the need for alternative-energy sources that will reduce dependency on oil while also improving the quality of the environment. However, Cory Cress, a recent graduate of RIT’s Ph.D. program in microsystems engineering, notes that

A piece of communications history that allowed people who are deaf to make their own phone calls for the first time is on permanent display at RIT’s Wallace Library.

One of the two modems used for the first call on a TTY—or teletypewriter—more than 40

The inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival did more than showcase the RIT campus to the community. It allowed faculty, staff and students to showcase themselves to the various festival sponsors.

Representatives from 10 festival sponsors traversed the campus on May 3 on a

Mathematics in the real world looks nothing like examples in a high school textbook. Math makes the Google search engine fly. It determines the airflow around cars and airplanes. It searches communication networks for terrorist cells. It can predict how cancer cells spread and

The span of Andrews Drive between Wiltsie Drive and Gleason Circle will soon be safer for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists.

Construction began this spring on the south loop multi-use trail project. Once work is completed—anticipated by this fall—a 10-foot-wide asphalt sidewalk and bikeway along the

The Department of Microelectronic Engineering has created a comprehensive outreach program that provides training in microelectronics to middle- and high-school teachers, including daylong training sessions at RIT featuring classroom instruction and exposure to equipment and test facilities in numerous campus labs. The department also

William Bond has been appointed director of RIT’s Intellectual Property Management Office, formerly known as the Technology Licensing Office.

Bond becomes the primary administrator for the university’s intellectual property portfolio, providing oversight of patents and technology licensing opportunities.

“RIT is rich in innovation as

One of the most powerful eruptions in the universe might have spun an infrared ring around a rare and exotic star known as a magnetar—a highly magnetized neutron star formed in a brilliant supernova explosion of a massive star.

A paper published in the May

Outsourcing might be good for American corporations, but it’s not necessarily good for American workers, and it’s likely to be bad for the American economy, even in the long run.

The revised edition of Outsourcing America: The True Cost of Shipping Jobs Overseas and What

Marketing major Jake Torcello transferred to RIT after graduating with honors from Monroe Community College with a degree in business administration. And during his first year at RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business, he has made “studying and working hard”—his business.

Torcello earned a

Daniel Johnson has been appointed chair of the Department of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology/Packaging Science in the College of Applied Science and Technology.

Johnson, who began working at RIT in 1992, was one of the first five people to be hired in RIT’s

RIT raised $396,500, exceeding its goal of $395,000 for the 2008 RIT United Way Campaign

Once again, the RIT community rallied to support much-needed services in the local area. As a result, RIT is this year’s recipient of the United

Winners of the Institute Public Speaking Contest were Danielle Gatti, an advertising and public relations major and second-place winner who discussed the problems with bottled water; Sunwoo Lee, a microelectronic engineering major and third-place winner, who spoke on the value of the liberal arts