Rochester Institute of Technology News

Saunders Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP) Student Chapter baked cookies for local first responders to show their appreciation in a recent story by WHEC.

13WHAM shared that Saunders Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP) Student Chapter baked cookies for local first responders to show their appreciation.

RIT always has had a passion for the community in which we live and learn. This year our community, the community of Rochester, has reached critical levels of need.

WGRZ-TV interviews Joseph Hill, associate professor in NTID’s Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education, about Black American Sign Language.

Saunders Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP) Student Chapter showed their appreciation to local first responders. Read more about their donation!

Fast Company talks to Maureen Ferran, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about why the efficacy of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine appears to be less than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines..

Spectrum News features Valerie O’Hara ’76 (fine and applied art), president and designer of Pike Stained Glass Studios Inc.

The Innovative Maker and Learning Complex will be a building like no other on the RIT campus, and an alumnus who is helping make it possible wants RIT students to give it a name to remember. A contest to name the building is for current RIT undergraduate and graduate students in good standing. Deadline for submission is March 13. Voting will begin March 18.

"RESILIENCE" — a showcase of documentary projects of 10 graduating students — will be on view March 4-14 and include a virtual opening reception.

All Saunders undergraduate programs have technology built into the curriculum.

While COVID-19 remains a global concern, RIT is doing “far better than other colleges and universities” across the nation, RIT President David Munson said last week in a live radio interview. Weekly testing is yielding one positive case out of every 1,000 RIT students tested, and there has not been a single case of viral transmission inside campus classrooms dating back to August.

Please remain vigilant in following the guidelines to help keep everyone safe on and off-campus. As a reminder, students living in university residential areas are not permitted to have guests in their room/apartment, and residents are not allowed to visit other floors or apartments.