News Stories

November 19, 2013

RIT48 contest searches for the next big app idea

RIT48 returns Nov. 22–24 with 40 students competing for $3,000. They will create a business plan, produce a prototype and launch a Web or mobile startup in 48 hours.
November 19, 2013

Students take second in engineering competition

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers honored Tyler Sherwood and Jared Benton-Smith for their work on improving the use of carbon nanotubes to filter wastewater.
November 18, 2013

Book explores wine anthropology

Anthropology Professor Robert Ulin is co-editor of Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass and will sign copies of the book Dec. 3 at Pittsford Wine and Spirits.
November 18, 2013

M&T donates $50,000 to entrepreneurship center

M&T Bank is making a two-year commitment and donating $50,000 to the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship’s Future Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs program for city students.
November 18, 2013

Influencing A Changing World

Wherever he has been during his career, Mustafa Abushagur has found a way to build what had not been there before. Now he's building a new foundation for his homeland.
November 18, 2013

Search for perfect snowflake ends under microscope

For the past 10 years, RIT professors and students have been seen scurrying around campus catching snowflakes.
November 18, 2013

Forever a Team

A devastating brain injury slowed down photographer and runner Brian Nice, but he stayed in life’s race with support from his RIT teammates from 30 years ago.
November 18, 2013

Colleges vie for top computer programming honors

The RIT computer science team placed seventh in the regional level of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest this weekend.
November 18, 2013

Sign the Polisseni Center’s ceiling beams

The Rochester and RIT communities are invited to sign the last ceiling beams Tuesday before they are they are installed into the Gene Polisseni Center.
November 18, 2013

Graduates pour hearts into Kosovo brewery

Alex Butler and Etida Zeka are introducing American-style craft beer to Kosovo. The graduates have opened a brewery, are bottling the beer and selling it to bars in Pristina.
November 18, 2013

Clean start in new career

RIT roommates reunite to form a new business.
November 18, 2013

Shedding light on Earth-like planets

Researchers are advancing imaging detectors for NASA space missions.