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  • January 30, 2017

    Protecting interests of international community

    U.S. President Donald Trump issued several executive orders pertaining to immigration on Friday. These orders directly and immediately impact members of the RIT community. Campus leadership is reviewing the details of the order and is responding to help students and faculty in need.

  • January 27, 2017

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    RIT student leaders converge in Dubrovnik

    Student Government leaders from RIT’s campuses in Dubai, Dubrovnik, Kosovo, Rochester and Zagreb met in Dubrovnik Jan. 16–19 for the Student Government Global Consortium.

  • January 25, 2017

    Professor posing for camera in chair

    David C. Munson Jr. named RIT’s 10th president

    David C. Munson Jr. was introduced to the community today as Rochester Institute of Technology’s 10th president. Munson, who will assume RIT’s top post July 1, was introduced by RIT Board Chair Christine Whitman at a community-wide event this morning in the Gordon Field House.

  • January 13, 2017

    Hands making a cross with the New York City Skyline

    RIT to expand student anti-terrorism initiative

    It’s Time: ExOut Extremism, an online initiative to combat violent extremism that started as a classroom assignment, has been awarded $149,000 from the Department of Homeland Security.

  • January 6, 2017

    Two portraits side by side

    RIT seeks partnership with Moscow State University

    A contingent from the College of Science is meeting this week with their counterparts at Lomonosov Moscow State University, while five RIT students attend a short course on winter ecology at the Zvenigorod Biological Station outside of Moscow.

  • December 9, 2016

    People shaking hands at table with RIT Table Sheet

    RIT expands agreement with University in China

    Tianjin University of Technology of China, a nationally recognized leader for its programs in engineering, technology and the arts and the first technological university providing education for the deaf in China, has entered into new partnership with RIT.

  • December 5, 2016

    Picture of Statue and buildings

    RIT joins Scholars at Risk network

    Scholars at Risk is an international network of over 400 higher education institutions in 40 countries that promotes academic freedom and protects more than 300 threatened scholars worldwide.

  • November 9, 2016

    Picture of Observatory

    Professor collaborates on new astronomical camera

    RIT professor Michael Richmond is a visiting professor for the fall term at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for the Early Universe and is working on a new type of astronomical camera for the 105-centimeter Kiso Schmidt Telescope at the Kiso Observatory in Japan.

  • November 4, 2016

    Scientists posing in front of observatory

    Professor wins four fellowships

    Joel Kastner, professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and the School of Physics and Astronomy, is broadening and deepening his research program on the origins of our solar system while on four consecutive fellowships and visiting positions.

  • October 21, 2016

    Researcher gets grant to study vaccine market

    RIT received a three-year, $374,949 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for faculty-researcher Ruben Proaño to study and help design a coordinated decision-support system for the global procurement of vaccines.

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