Rochester Institute of Technology News
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October 16, 2019
RIT’s ESD Honorary Chapters experience growth and international recognition
Only three years from its establishment, the Croatian ESD Honorary Chapter serves as a valuable global connection for Saunders hospitality students.
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October 16, 2019
The $10 Business Project: Caleb Wheelock’s Successful Social Venture
Saunders Distinguished Professor Dr. dt ogilvie offers her students a chance to create their own businesses with only a ten-dollar budget. With a little entrepreneurship, Caleb Wheelock was able to turn this project into a productive non-profit.
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October 16, 2019
How gambling built baseball – and then almost destroyed it
Essay by Rebecca Edwards, professor of history, published by The Conversation.
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October 15, 2019
50 Business School Deans Supporting Immigration Reform
Poets&Quants lists Jacqueline Mozrall, dean of Saunders College of Business, among the business deans supporting pro-immigration policies for skilled immigrants.
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October 15, 2019
RIT/NTID Career Fair to bring record number of employers to campus to recruit deaf/hard-of-hearing students
Representatives from more than 50 local and national corporations, federal agencies and nonprofit organizations looking to diversify their workforce will meet with hundreds of deaf and hard-of-hearing students—who also are prospective employees—at the 19th annual Career Fair on Oct. 17.
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October 15, 2019
Oscar-nominated director, Brighton native to screen latest documentary at RIT/NTID Oct. 18
A 2019 documentary by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Irene Taylor Brodsky will be screened at NTID this week. Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, the story of Brodsky’s deaf son and her parents, RIT/NTID retirees Paul and Sally Taylor, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
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October 15, 2019
RIT wins $1.4M to help homeless with opioid addiction, mental illness
Making addiction treatment and mental health services accessible to homeless people via TeleHealth is the focus of a federally funded program at RIT.
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October 15, 2019
RIT GEAR UP celebrates Rochester Class of 2020
A special partnership between RIT and the Rochester City School District and charter schools has primed the Class of 2020 for success through a college and career readiness program that began six years ago, when the cohort was in middle school, and has now reached its culminating year.
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October 15, 2019
Lakes worldwide are experiencing more severe algal blooms
Terra Daily features research by Nima Pahlevan ’12 Ph.D. (imaging science).
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October 15, 2019
2U's latest program shows potential challenges of hands-on learning online
Education Dive talks to Dennis Andrejko, chair of the Department of Architecture, about RIT's plans for an online Master of Architecture degree.
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October 15, 2019
If impeachment comes to the Senate – 5 questions answered
The Conversation asks Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, about Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's role in the impeachment process.
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October 15, 2019
Power Up: Business school leaders to Trump and Congress: Let in more high-skilled foreign workers
The Washington Post reports on an open letter signed by the deans of nearly 50 business schools -- including Saunders College of Business Dean Jacqueline Mozrall -- to President Donald Trump and congressional leaders regarding the country’s immigration policy for high-skilled workers.