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October 12, 2015
NTID’s Kathryn Schmitz wins Changing Hearts Award
Kathryn Schmitz, associate dean for academic administration, was awarded the Changing Hearts and Minds Award for her efforts to further RIT’s commitment to diversity. -
October 12, 2015
Featured speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month
Actress-singer Jackie Cruz, star of the Netflix hit series Orange is the New Black will be the featured speaker during Hispanic Heritage Month Oct. 15 at RIT. -
October 12, 2015
RIT launches new diversity leadership program
W.O.C.H.A. (Women of Color, Honor and Ambition), a diversity program modeled after the highly successful M.O.C.H.A., aims to enhance leadership ability and build camaraderie. -
October 9, 2015
Candice Baldwin of RIT named Forty Under 40 winner
The senior director for Academic Success and director of the Multicultural Center for Academic Success was a "2015 Forty Under 40" award from the Rochester Business Journal. -
October 7, 2015
Rochester Fringe Fest deemed a success
Fringe Fest organizers say more than 63,000 people attended the 10-day festival, nearly 4,000 of which attended the more than 30 RIT student or faculty-run events. -
September 28, 2015
Engineering faculty receives prestigious award
Reginald Rogers, assistant professor of chemical engineering, was the recipient of the Joseph N. Cannon Award in Chemical Engineering. -
September 25, 2015
RIT hosts 21 Future Faculty program candidates
RIT's 2015 Future Faculty Career Exploration Program will host 21 diverse participants Sept. 30-Oct. 3. They will engage in interviews, observe classes and lecture on campus. -
September 25, 2015
RIT receives second consecutive diversity award
RIT received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the university's second consecutive HEED award. -
September 21, 2015
NASA's Clayton Turner to open speaker series
Clayton Turner, NASA's deputy director of Langley Research Center, will open the 2015 Dean's Alumni Speaker Series at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Xerox Auditorium. -
September 9, 2015
‘U.S. News’ ranks RIT among most innovative
RIT is among the “Most Innovative Schools” in a new survey of college leaders in the 2016 edition of U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges. -
September 3, 2015
McNair Scholar hopes to give back to homeland
Meet Enock Ntekereze, a third-year international global studies student who came to the U.S. as a refugee when he was 13. -
August 28, 2015
First-gen student works on detecting cancer cells
Meet Christian Gordillo, a fourth-year biotechnology and molecular bioscience major who will be the first in his family to graduate from high school and college.