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November 19, 2013
RIT48 contest searches for the next big app idea
RIT48 returns Nov. 22–24 with 40 students competing for $3,000. They will create a business plan, produce a prototype and launch a Web or mobile startup in 48 hours. -
November 18, 2013
M&T donates $50,000 to entrepreneurship center
M&T Bank is making a two-year commitment and donating $50,000 to the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship’s Future Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs program for city students. -
November 18, 2013
Graduates pour hearts into Kosovo brewery
Alex Butler and Etida Zeka are introducing American-style craft beer to Kosovo. The graduates have opened a brewery, are bottling the beer and selling it to bars in Pristina. -
November 14, 2013
Nosebleed remedy tops Tiger Tank competition
Gino Santaguida was awarded first prize and $2,000 in the Simone Center’s Tiger Tank competition for his product idea to stop nosebleeds. -
November 13, 2013
Dean ogilvie to co-lead mayoral transition team
Saunders College of Business Dean dt ogilvie has been named one of two leaders of Rochester Mayor-Elect Lovely A. Warren’s transition team. -
November 11, 2013
Teams pitch business ideas in Tiger Tank
Five student teams will present their business ideas to a panel of judges for a chance to win a cash prize. Tiger Tank takes place Nov. 13 in Student Innovation Hall. -
November 7, 2013
RIT to connect journalism and technology students
RIT is creating a Digital Journalism Incubator, a multidisciplinary program that combines technology, design and entrepreneurial skills, with help from the Knight Foundation. -
October 24, 2013
Play explores hilarity of blind dating
A Q&A with Nick Giordano, a third-year management information systems and political science double major and director of Check, Please, a 30-minute, one-act play. -
October 22, 2013
Entrepreneurship Center names program director
Ebony Miller will be responsible for research, development, delivery and assessment of programming at the Saunders College of Business Center for Urban Entrepreneurship. -
October 10, 2013
Designer Scott Wilson headlines conference
Scott Wilson ’91, founder of Minimal Inc. and former global director at Nike, is the keynote speaker at the RIT Entrepreneurs Conference on Oct. 18. -
September 27, 2013
Author, Pulitzer Prize-winner to speak at RIT
David Cay Johnston will discuss topics from his book, The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind, on Oct. 3. -
September 26, 2013
Saunders College hosts ‘Shark Tank’ judge
Daymond John is headlining Saunders College of Business Gasser Lecture Series during the 2013 RIT Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.