History
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1820s
1826
1829
- Athenaeum founded by Nathaniel Rochester and other community leaders.
1830s
1836
- Mechanics Literary Associaton formed.
1838
- Young Men's Association merges with the Rochester Athenaeum.
1840s
1847
- Athenaeum merges with the Mechanics Literary Association.
1860s
1865
- Corinthian Hall sold.
1880s
1885
- Mechanics Institute founded.
1890s
1891
- Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute merge.
1894
- Manual Training Building (Eastman Annex), the first official building, is erected.
1900s
1901
- Eastman Building opens.
1909
- The Institute Breeze, first student publication, was published.
1910s
1910
- Carleton B. Gibson is appointed the first president.
1912
- Cooperative education is begun by President Gibson.
- Ramikin, the student yearbook, publication begins.
1916
- James F. Barker is appointed as president.
1919
- Royal B. Farnum is appointed as president.
1920s
1922
- John A. Randall is appointed as president.
1926
- Industrial chemistry course begins.
1930s
1930
- Department of Photography founded.
1936
- Mark Ellingson is appointed as president.
1937
- Empire State School of Printing, later School of Print Media, acquired by Frank Gannett.
1940s
1942
- Evening School opens.
1944
- The name Rochester Institute of Technology is officially adopted.
1950s
1950
- Graphic Arts Research Center established.
- School for American Craftsmen founded by Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb.
1952
- McKechnie-Lunger School of Commerce acquired by RIT.
1960s
1960
- Edwina Hogadone becomes first woman dean of the College of Business.
1963
- College of Science established.
1964
- Construction begins on the Henrietta campus.
1965
- Outstanding Teacher Award first given.
1966
- National Technical Institute of the Deaf chosen to be at RIT.
1967
- Nathaniel Rochester Society formed to connect RIT with the community.
1968
- RIT moves to its Henrietta campus.
- First NTID freshman class.
- Allegory of a Landscape mural installed.
1969
- Paul Miller is appointed president.
1970s
1971
- College of Engineering established.
1972
- Criminal justice program established.
- School of Computer Science and Technology established.
1973
- Reflections Installed
1979
- Distance Learning Program created.
- Richard Rose is appointed president.
- Eisenhower College is acquired by RIT.
1980s
1980
- RIT Research Corporation formed.
1982
- Microelectronic engineering program established.
1983
- Biotechnology program established.
1986
- Center for Microelectronic and Computer Engineering is dedicated.
1989
- International Center for Hearing and Speech Research is opened.
- Telecommunications engineering program established.
- Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science is dedicated.
- Bausch & Lomb Center is established.
1990s
1991
- Hale-Andrews Student Life Center is completed.
- Commission on Cultural Diversity is established.
1992
- Albert Simone is appointed president.
1993
- Women's Resource Center is created.
1995
- Margaret's House is dedicated.
1997
- Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies opens.
- American College of Management and Technology opens in Croatia.
1998
- College of Engineering renamed Kate Gleason College of Engineering
- Center for Excellence in Mathematics, Science, and Technology established.
2000s
2001
- B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences is formed.
- Joseph F. and Helen C. Dyer Arts Center opens.
- RIT is designed a New York State Strategically Targeted Academic Research (STAR) Center.
- IT Collaboratory is formed.
2002
- myCourses is offered.
- North Star Center for Academic Success and Cultural Affairs opened.
2003
- RIT SportsZone debuts on ESPN.
- Sentinel dedicated by Albert Paley.
2004
- T. Alan Hurwitz appointed as RIT vice president and dean of NTID.
- Gordon Field House and Activities Center opens.
2005
- First Finger Lakes Regional FIRST Robotics Competition hosted by RIT.
- IT Collaboratory building opens.
- E. Philip Saunders College of Business is named.
2007
- William Destler is appointed as president.
- Center for Bioscience Education and Technology opens.
- Golisano Institute for Sustainability established.
2008
- RIT campus opens in United Arab Emirates.
- Imagine RIT first run.
- College of Applied Science and Technology Building opened.
2009
- Center for Student Innovation opens.
- Campus Center opens.
2010s
2010
- Global Village opens.
- Gordie's opens.
