News

March 28, 2017

Graduates construct Rochester Top 100 company

Justin Hamilton and Christopher Stern were standing on the basketball court sidelines in 1998 when they started talking about majors. That was the beginning of Hamilton Stern Construction, a company that was No. 1 on the Rochester Chamber Top 100 list of fastest growing private companies in 2016.
March 28, 2017

Education fueled by hard work—and fruit cakes

Rosalie Rosini is proof that age is just a number and that life is what you make it to be. The 70-year-old, who celebrated the 50th anniversary of her graduation from RIT last May, said that she’s more active in her life now than she’s ever been.
March 10, 2017

ROTC student earns Gold Congressional Award

Meet Gabriel Curcione, a first-year mechanical engineering technology major and member of the Air Force ROTC.
March 8, 2017

Packaging science students host Packaging Jamboree

The 32nd annual Packaging Jamboree focuses on innovations and technologies that are helping improve problems in the environment. It is organized and run entirely by students.
February 23, 2017

Student prepares for conference championship game

Meet Jessica Glaz, a third-year packaging science student, who is a guard for the women’s basketball team. The team will compete in the Liberty League championship game on Saturday.
February 17, 2017

Air Force ROTC holds blood drive March 6

RIT’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 538 and the Greater Rochester chapter of the Red Cross are sponsoring the 2017 annual blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 6 at the Gordon Field House.
February 16, 2017

RIT celebrates 2017 National Engineers Week

Engineers Week, Feb. 20–25, takes place annually to highlight engineers’ contributions to society and to increase understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology careers. Events at RIT include talks by engineering alumni and topical presentations.
January 10, 2017

Online programs score well in national rankings

The 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings recognizes RIT on its “Best Online Graduate MBA programs,”“Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs” and “Best Online Bachelor’s Programs” lists.
January 3, 2017

RIT Press publishes book on audio signal processing

Introduction to Audio Signal Processing, written by RIT Professor Emeritus Warren Koontz, provides students and technical professionals with the knowledge to process audio in real time on their own computers.
November 30, 2016

RIT awarded grant to develop curriculum modules

RIT was awarded nearly $75,000 from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop standards educational modules for the university’s College of Applied Science and Technology.
November 28, 2016

Donate personal care items to Center for Youth

RIT students are collecting personal care items, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap, shavers, toilet paper and feminine hygiene products, to be donated to the Center for Youth shelter for teens. Donations are being collected on campus through Thursday.
November 21, 2016

Grads shift gears from roommates to more

Danyelle Greene ’13 and Steve Skurski ’15 weren’t always a package deal. In fact, they started out far from one when they met as housemates in 2012. The couple was married in October.