Associate professor Jennifer Schneider has always considered herself an “unofficial” mentor for students in the safety technology department in the College of Applied Science and Technology. And as a result of her participation in the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, she has taken

Students in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences have a unique opportunity to partner with the federal government. The college’s Department of Networking, Security and Systems Administration has secured a grant from the National Security Agency, on behalf of the

Four RIT students are the recipients of the Xerox Technical Minority Scholarships, presented annually by Xerox Corp., which recognizes high academic achievement in the fields of science, engineering and technology. RIT’s 2009 honorees are Dwight Cooke, fifth-year mechanical engineering major from Castleton, N.Y.;

Jennifer Wolfley, adjunct professor of English and criminal justice, has dedicated her professional life to increasing understanding and assisting people involved with one of America’s most prevalent, if little talked about, social problems—prostitution. As the longtime director of Rochester’s Mary Magdalene Outreach Center, she

Stardust is a scientific term referring to dust grains that are formed by the cooling gases ejected by stars. It’s also a fitting name for RIT professor Joel Kastner’s jazz band—one of two bands in which he plays on a regular basis.

Richard Santana, associate professor and chair of RIT’s Department of English, is exploring how religion and morality are expressed in popular culture and the impact this has on the development of religious themes in American life.

Michael Parthum has been awarded a patent for stress mitigation in thin films. A professor in the manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology department and program chair of the electrical/mechanical engineering technology program in the College of Applied Science and Technology, Parthum developed the patent

RIT has been selected as one of 11 schools to receive a Institutional Transformation Catalyst grant through the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program. The $200,000 grant was awarded for the proposal “Establishing the Foundation for Future Organizational Reform and Transformation @ RIT” (EFFORT@RIT).

Nearly a quarter of all classes held at RIT have at least one deaf or hard-of-hearing student and an interpreter, captionist or notetaker to help facilitate communication.

So a logical education destination for U.S. servicemen and women who have suffered hearing loss—a top disability reported

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Student Government is pleased to announce that it will be awarding three academic scholarships. Criteria for these scholarships will be based on innovative and creative solutions to problem solving. The applications consist of two letters of recommendation from an RIT faculty or staff member,