Rochester Institute of Technology News

The RIT Diversity Dashboard provides a snapshot of institutional demographics, highlighting RIT’s diverse populations and allowing us to examine recent trends related to race, ethnicity, and gender diversity.

Joining the RIT Board of Trustees are Clayton P. Turner, director of NASA’s Langley Research Center, and James P. Swift, president and CEO of Cortera.

RIT’s ASL-English interpretation program has achieved accreditation through the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education and now is one of only 16 accredited bachelor’s degree interpreting programs in the United States. 

RIT recently received a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop course modules that will provide students with guidelines and best practices in standards information toward helping organizations manage crisis situations.

Graduates from Saunders College of Business hospitality and tourism management (HTM) master of science program are professional “guestologists,” mastering customer experience and the market behind it.

WHAM-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor in the Department of Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, about shipping and storing the COVID-19 vaccine.

Design Milk highlights the Vignelli Center’s Design Conversations Lecture Series.

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is inviting applications for summer 2021.

RIT’s Multidisciplinary Senior Design program began last fall with more projects for engineering student teams than expected, despite the pandemic. From collaborations with other universities and NASA to an anthropologist needing a robotic model of a dinosaur tail, all the projects represent innovative technologies built with sustainable, user-friendly designs.

The Democrat and Chronicle partners with Associate Professor Hinda Mandell's News Editing class on a project to talk to first-time voters.

The Rochester Beacon features research by Satish Kandlikar, the Gleason Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Clyde Hull, professor of management, was quoted in a recent article from Zippia to help aspiring graduates start their careers.