Olympus Visionary photographers John Isaac and Ian McDonald-Smith will visit RIT March 27 to talk about their life’s work in photography. The free lecture will be at 6:30 p.m. in room A205 in Building 6 on the RIT campus. Isaac’s photography is known around the

There is a new venue designed to showcase the work of women at RIT. Pathways: A Century of Women at RIT is a collaborative effort between the RIT Women’s Center, the RIT Archives and the women and gender studies program that highlights and celebrates

Each issue of News & Events will feature a project to be showcased at Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 3. This week’s spotlight: Human Everyday Movement: Behavior as Dance Presenter: Thomas Warfield, NTID Performing Arts, with participation from student members of the RIT/NTID

Research at RIT is seeking to enhance knowledge surrounding the impact of smoking on human health. Risa Robinson, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is utilizing computational modeling, medical imaging and mechanical simulation to illustrate how individual particles inhaled with cigarette smoke affect the body

A good defense proved to be the best offense for a team of RIT students who “outsecured” and outscored five other universities from the Northeast to advance to the finals of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition next month in San Antonio. RIT hosted student

RIT has formed a partnership with the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola in Lima, Peru. The agreement will allow qualified Peruvian students to earn both undergraduate and graduate degrees from RIT. About 15 to 20 Peruvian students attend RIT annually. The new agreement assures the

RIT President Bill Destler unveiled specifics of the university’s new Corporate Research and Development program during a meeting with faculty and staff March 10. The meeting provided information on the current program outline and sought feedback from faculty and researchers regarding future industry partnership

A unique military-university partnership is working to improve cybersecurity technology and the safety of military and civilian computer networks. The collaboration includes CUBRC, a not-for-profit research and development company headquartered in Buffalo, along with professors from RIT, the State University of New York at

Most men resort to candy and flowers For Valentine’s Day, those are their powers. Josh Allmann says he’s a regular guy He’s bright but admits he’s a little bit shy. So he uses a laptop to help get a date Using his software to determine his fate. A self-described

He’s small, round and lovable. His name is Digsby and he may be the best thing that has happened to e-mail and Facebook–since e-mail and Facebook. Digsby is the latest product to launch from Venture Creations, RIT’s high-tech incubator, which assists students, faculty and staff

As the forerunner of Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr., Bishop Richard Allen has an awe-inspiring rГ©sumГ© attached to his name. Allen–a former slave who bought his freedom during the American Revolution–became one of the first major black activists, one of the first

Two RIT professors will talk about climate-change policy and the automotive industry at a national forum evaluating the impact of global climate change on industries critical to United States’ economic success. Sandra Rothenberg and James Winebrake will lead a discussion on sustainable transportation at

The growing spirit of innovation on campus is validated through the results of a recent contest sponsored by Digital Rochester. RIT students swept the various award categories at “A Bright Idea” exhibition, held Feb. 5 in the Louise Slaughter Building. Students at all regional

Vinny and Kim Aliperti have little time these days to toast their good fortune. Some unexpected circumstances last year presented the couple with an opportunity to go into the winery business. Today they’re busy running Billsboro Winery, located along the Seneca Lake Wine Trail,

They are members of the campus community who frequently labor behind the scenes, but their efforts are not going unrecognized. Sponsored Research Services paid tribute to RIT’s principal investigators during a presentation Feb. 21 in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

Supporting and helping someone dealing with chronic illness is probably the hardest and most important challenge families can ever face. And two brave RIT families–whose faces you’ll be seeing on the posters around campus for RIT’s 2008 United Way Campaign–have decided to share their

Do you become frustrated using sign language when you don’t know the sign? Or perhaps you are too shy to ask? Fear no more. The American Sign Language Video Dictionary and Inflection Guide is now available online for all RIT students, faculty and staff to

After 10 years of reviewing films for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jack Garner was named chief film critic for the Gannett newspapers nationally in 1987 and syndicated to a hundred newspapers throughout the country, a position he held until his retirement last June.

Writer Laura Cummings was waiting for her biography of one of the most successful American Idol stars to publish when country music singer Carrie Underwood came to town earlier this month to play at Blue Cross Arena. Cummings, who did not go to the

Members of the Deaf Women Engineering group at NTID used their hammers, tape measures and construction skills to build five wooden cat shelters for the Humane Society at Lollypop Farm in Perinton. Wild cats are found near many colleges across the country, including at RIT.

Time Warner Cable of Rochester has assumed a key leadership position in the RIT-led Rochester Regional Cyber Safety and Ethics Initiative. Time Warner is assuming a position on the initiative’s executive committee and has donated $100,000 in cash and in-kind donations to aid the