News

  • May 1, 2018

    The winning RIT Dota 2 team poses for a photo with their trophy.

    RIT Dota 2 team wins Grand Championship

    RIT is securing its legacy as one of the best colleges in esports after winning its first Collegiate Starleague Dota 2 Grand Finals Championship April 28. The student team bested a bracket of North America’s 32 top universities to take home the $10,000 grand prize.
  • April 25, 2018

    App makes museum experience more accessible

    NTID is launching a mobile app to be used in its Dyer Arts Center that provides content in various forms, including video in American Sign Language, transcripts and audio and visual descriptions.
  • April 19, 2018

    Aerial image above the clouds.

    Imagine RIT preview: Serious science in the sky

    RIT’s Space Exploration program will launch the High Altitude Balloon during the Imagine RIT festival as part of a mission to map vegetation density and orientation in the Finger Lakes region.
  • April 13, 2018

    The RIT student team poses for a photo with their Game Dev Challenge first place certificate.

    RIT students take top awards at Game Dev Challenge

    Teams from RIT won first and second place in the student category of the second annual New York State Game Development Challenge, hosted by RIT’s MAGIC Center and sponsored by Empire State Development.
  • April 11, 2018

    Orange image with white bat-shaped creatures. Text reads "2018 Microsoft Puzzle Challenge".

    Students compete in Microsoft Puzzle Challenge

    The annual Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge will pit RIT students against more than a thousand representatives from 27 other prestigious universities. Teams each have 10 hours to solve a packet of puzzles that might include anything from crosswords and logic problems to word play and cryptograms.
  • April 5, 2018

    Three team members standing in front of a colorful wall that says "SXSW 2018".

    ‘Cool’ alumni start-up featured in ‘Inc.’

    Gaia, a company founded by RIT alumni, was featured in an Inc. article listing the top eight “Coolest College Startups” as named by the Student Startup Madness competition at South by Southwest. This company is almost entirely run by RIT students and alumni.
  • March 27, 2018

    RIT student pointing to computer screen teaching grade school student.

    Grade school students Get Connected to computing

    More than 50 Rochester-area grade school students are now dreaming of careers in computing after attending RIT’s Get Connected events this February and March. The free workshops gave 8th–10th grade students a taste of computing and highlighted different areas of the field.