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Spectrum News speaks to USA deaf women’s volleyball player Grace Phelan about training at RIT, home of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Rochester Business Journal speaks with Johan Klarin, assistant vice president and managing director of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

RIT has nearly doubled global opportunities in the past eight years, with 701 students participating in international experiences in the 2023-2024 academic year.

RIT Dubai, one of the university’s five global campuses, opened phase one of its new campus in 2021 and is now on to phase two, set to be complete in 2027. The new construction will be done in two stages and will help boost the campus enrollment to 4,000 students.

Today, there are 51 endowed professorships at RIT. Thirteen of those have been established since 2017. These named professorships help provide both the recognition and the resources that the highest caliber faculty and experts in their field deserve.

RIT’s athletics teams have been a powerhouse over the past decade, and now they’re getting the facilities to match their success. At the northern end of campus, a new facility for track and field welcomes visitors.

The 750 RIT undergraduate students who belong to one of the 28 fraternities or sororities on campus also perform thousands of hours of community service and raise thousands of dollars for charities each year.

In 2019, RIT initiated the Performing Arts Scholars program, offering partial scholarships to incoming students who wanted to be involved in the arts during their time on campus.

The RIT-Genesee Country Village & Museum (GCV&M) Partnership, which is supported by the Philip K. and Anne Wehrheim Endowment, is just one example of how these collaborations provide a two- way bridge of benefits.

The curtain is set to rise in 2026 for RIT’s new music performance theater, a 750-seat, 40,000-square-foot complex that will be the first major theater to open in the Rochester area in decades.

The alliance aims to enhance programming in the university’s College of Health Sciences and Technology and prepare healthcare professionals to enter the workforce.

In its 15th annual list, Poets&Quants ranked Saunders among the top 100 MBA programs for 2024-25, moving it up to #92 from #98 last year. This ranking places Saunders among the top 10% of all business schools in the country.