News Stories

Meet three students who were nominated to attend the Kennedy Center American College Theater Regional Festival.

Eight Beat Measure, one of seven student a cappella groups at RIT, won the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Tournament quarterfinals Saturday and advances to the ICCA semifinal competition March 30.

RIT’s 37th annual Expressions of King’s Legacy event, rescheduled for March 7, features CNN political commentator Tara Setmayer as well as performances by viral female tap dance band Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies and vocalist Kearstin Piper Brown.

A diverse set of speakers, including entrepreneurs, social activists and students, will inspire attendees at TEDxRIT, RIT’s independently organized TED event. The talks will be live streamed on Facebook.

Mystery, murder, dance, a look at deaf life, and the struggle to survive Nazi Germany are all part of a new collaborative season by RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf Performing Arts program and College of Liberal Arts Theater Arts program.

Meet Aida Hajdarpasic, a fourth-year illustration student who plays in the RIT Philharmonic Orchestra and the RIT Game Symphony Orchestra.

Housed by RIT’s English department, the interdisciplinary Center for Engaged Storycraft addresses technological transformation and an explosion of interest in storytelling internationally over the past decade.

Laura Lentz, adjunct professor, Department of Performing Arts and Visual Culture, featured in City Newspaper.

Meet Matt Nygren, a fifth-year mechanical engineering dual-degree student who worked with three other mechanical engineering students to recreate a piece of 16th century technology: Ramelli’s Rotating Reader.

A collection of interpretive dances based on children’s prose and poetry is featured in a new production by NTID’s Performing Arts department.

WROC-TV features Tina Chapman DaCosta, Diversity Theatre Program director.

The RIT community will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with its second annual Let Freedom Ring event, featuring music, dance and excerpts from some of King’s most notable speeches. Performers include the RIT/NTID Dance Company, the RIT String Quartet and keynote speaker Greg Pollock ’12.