Rochester Institute of Technology News

RIT is among 15 colleges and universities that have joined the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), a program of the think-tank New America. The network unites colleges and universities committed to building the field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

WHAM-TV affiliate Sinclair Broadcast Group talks to Donathan Brown, assistant provost and AVP for Faculty Diversity and Recruitment, about President Trump's tweets attacking former President Obama.

Students in the Cross Media Workflow course collaborated with the Vignelli Center for Design Studies to produce an innovative and sustainable cross-media project. 

Watch Madeline Gibbs give her 2020 undergraduate student delegate commencement speech.

A chance meeting near 10 p.m. in one of the world’s busiest airports, Chicago’s O’Hare, provided a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with a former student, Jayadev Alapati, a graduate of the New Media Publishing program. Jay graciously accepted the request to share some school memories and his career path experience since graduating in 2011.

Alesia Allen, an alumna and NTID faculty member, has been named NTID Director of Diversity and Inclusion. She begins her new duties July 1.

Several students at NTID were honored with academic achievement awards ahead of RIT’s virtual commencement ceremony on May 8.

Cleveland.com talks to mathematical modeling doctoral student Juliette Daily and Professor Matthew Hoffman about their research on plastic pollution in Lake Erie.

WHAM-TV talks to Ernest Fokoue, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, about sorting out COVID-19 data.

Vinay Abhyankar and this team will develop the commercial-ready µSiM platform with three nanoporous membrane offerings that provide glass-like imaging properties and integrate a removable fluidic module to apply physiological fluid shear stresses to form a viable vascular barrier. These tissue barriers are an important component of a growing market for 3D cell culture. 

RIT honored its 2020 class of Distinguished Faculty—Manuela Campanelli, Satish Kandlikar and James Perkins. The Distinguished Professor designation is given to tenured faculty who have shown continued excellence over their careers in teaching, scholarly contributions, lasting contributions in creative and professional work and service to both the university and community.

Friday’s celebration of the Class of 2020 certainly cannot replace the atmosphere of a traditional commencement, which RIT plans to host on campus when it’s deemed safe. But many of graduates say they won’t let the pandemic, or the circumstances surrounding the virtual celebration, define them or their feelings about their time at RIT. (Pictured: Bradley Speck, who will finish his classes online this summer, has a job waiting for him at GE Aviation in Cincinnati, where he completed four co-ops.)