Rochester Institute of Technology News

Steven Van Slyke ’88 (materials science) has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for co-inventing the organic light-emitting diode, or OLED.

RIT's Big Shot photography team partnered with the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee to create a unique photo of the Frederick Douglass monument in Rochester’s Highland Park using the Big Shot’s “painting with light” technique.

Meet Elise Walsh, a highly active biotechnology and molecular bioscience major and 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar.

An online journal published by RIT Press and focused on scholarship exploring the music of Haydn has been recognized for innovation in journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences with the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.

Token, an identity technology start-up founded by RIT alumni Melanie and Steve Shapiro, will receive up to $1.75 million through the New York State Innovation Venture Capital Fund.

Voting in the 2018 Imagine RIT poster contest closes on Wednesday.

A new simulation of supermassive black holes, the behemoths at the centers of galaxies, uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding gas before the masses collide, said RIT researchers in a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Poets&Quants, a leading resource for coverage of graduate business education, ranks the Saunders College of Business Online Executive MBA program second in the category of career outcomes for graduates, and 13th overall, in its list of top online MBA programs.

The Veterans Upward Bound program at RIT will host an information session on Feb. 16 to help local military veterans prepare for college or trade certification programs and advance their careers.

RIT's College of Applied Science and Technology hosts "Drones: Technology, Safety, Community, Engagement and the Future" on Feb. 20 as part of Engineers Week.

The role of photography in the digital era has transformed medical photography and profoundly influenced medical education. RIT's Gallery r hosted an exhibition featuring photographs from the operating rooms at Rochester General Hospital (RGH) that were taken by students enrolled in RIT's Surgical Photography course throughout its existence.

 

Open to middle school students and their parents, participants can visit the mechanical engineering machine shop, the AMPrint Center and the Toyota Production Laboratory.