Media Coverage

WXXI News features comments from Erica Haskell, director of RIT’s School of Performing Arts, and RIT President Bill Sanders about the opening of the university’s new performing arts center and its role in supporting interdisciplinary collaboration and student creativity.

Rochester Business Journal speaks to Erica Haskell, director of RIT’s School of Performing Arts, about the opening of the university’s new performing arts center and its role in advancing interdisciplinary collaboration and the regional arts scene.

Spectrum News reports on the opening of the new RIT Performing Arts Center, a 747-seat venue that will host student and community performances and feature a restored historic pipe organ.

WHAM-TV speaks to Mark Loria, professor of practice in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, about the challenges of maintaining and replacing Rochester’s aging underground water infrastructure.

Basis Point Insight publishes an essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, highlighting new research that links skewed sex ratios to marriage markets, dowries and relative wealth in India.

Basis Point Insight publishes an essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, about how restrictive leasing laws and weak land records are impeding efficient land use in India.

WHAM-TV reports on RIT hosting the American Society of Civil Engineers student symposium, featuring regional universities competing in engineering challenges such as concrete canoe races and steel bridge design.

Government Technology magazine reports that RIT will offer a bachelor’s degree in AI this fall, as well as a six-course minor in the subject, featuring courses on machine learning, natural language processing, and analytics.

Rochester Business Journal reports that RIT’s Saunders College of Business was ranked among the nation’s top graduate business schools by U.S. News & World Report, highlighting program size, tuition, and employment outcomes for MBA graduates.

Business News This Week reports on RIT’s Tiger Pride 2026 event in New Delhi, featuring comments from Daniel Kopperud, assistant director of Strategic Global Enrollment Initiatives.

WXXI speaks to Michael Yacci, senior associate dean in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, about the university’s new artificial intelligence bachelor’s degree and its focus on ethics, law, and workforce preparation.

The Decoder reports on research by RIT that examines how many human evaluators are needed for reliable AI benchmarks, finding that more than 10 raters per example are often required to capture meaningful differences in model performance.