Alumni News
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January 22, 2021
RIT’s Saunders College of Business jumps 33 spots in Poets&Quants nationwide listing
Saunders College of Business ranked 58th in the list of business schools in the nation by Poets&Quants, a leading resource for coverage of business education. Saunders College was recognized for placing high in employment outcomes for graduates, fueled by a strong cooperative education program and employment rates.
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January 18, 2021
Alumna rises through ranks of Tiffany & Co.
Claudia (Owusu-Sampah) Fava ’14 MFA (Metals and Jewelry Design) has enjoyed an enriching career with the eminent jewelry retailer's stone-setting department.
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January 15, 2021
Astronomers dissect the anatomy of planetary nebulae using Hubble Space Telescope images
Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from RIT and Green Bank Observatory presented new findings about the Butterfly Nebula and the Jewel Bug Nebula at the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Friday, Jan. 15.
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January 15, 2021
Alumni use talents during pandemic
RIT alumni continue to give back during the pandemic, helping people, companies, and health care facilities in need.
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January 15, 2021
Professor driving multidisciplinary research with real-time technology
Shaun Foster is leveraging $160,000 from an Epic Games MegaGrant to explore and develop dynamic virtual content that is opening the eyes of RIT faculty and students—and many others—to Unreal Engine’s myriad, multidisciplinary possibilities.
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January 15, 2021
Tigers capture historic moments across the country
When demonstrations calling for police reform and racial equality occurred in cities across the country in 2020, alumni and faculty of RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences were there to capture the gripping moments through their camera lenses.
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January 14, 2021
Alumni spotlight: Google designer Jason Blythe
Jason Blythe '02, '05 MFA has had a hand in advancing the look and functionality of Google's most popular services.
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January 11, 2021
VacSeen: RIT alumnus creates bracelet to show you’ve been vaccinated, looks to build public trust
WROC-TV talks to Ian Mikutel '10 (information technology), principal product manager at Microsoft and co-founder of VacSeen.
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January 8, 2021
RIT faculty member named a KEEN Engineering Unleashed Fellow
As part of a summer faculty development workshop sponsored by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), Patricia Cyr was recommended by workshop leaders for the fellowship because of her work during the program and while teaching at RIT to advance engineering course activities and to improve student learning outcomes.
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January 5, 2021
BSSP's Sinan Dagli on LeBron, the Warriors, and Reintroducing the ESPN App to the Masses
Muse by Clio talks to Sinan Dagli '09 (new media design), a group creative director/partner at BSSP.
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December 23, 2020
RIT grad helps develop VacSeen as a way to see who has been vaccinated against COVID-19
A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology has helped come up with VacSeen, an easy way to show others who may have received a COVID-19 vaccination.
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December 18, 2020