News

  • September 12, 2018

    Catch the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival

    RIT is a major educational sponsor of the community collaborative event, now in its seventh year, and will provide free shuttle bus service to and from campus during the festival weekends. All of the 38 RIT performances and exhibits are free.
  • August 30, 2018

    A photo looking down on a drum set with five people holding out their drum sticks over the drums, as if they are about to all play the drums at once.

    RIT drumline welcomes new members

    Meet Tim Coon, a fourth-year software engineering major and member of the RIT drumline, Jazz Ensemble, RIT Pep Band and the newly created Game Symphony Orchestra.
  • August 24, 2018

    President Munson outlines RIT’s 2025 Strategic Plan

    RIT President David Munson said exciting changes are in the works in RIT’s revised 2025 Strategic Plan that will help the university get closer to becoming a top-50 university, yet unlike any other top-50 university in the nation.
  • July 13, 2018

    RIT President, Dr. Munson, standing on a stage in front of a band.

    RIT publicly launches $1 billion blended campaign

    RIT displayed its signature blend of arts and technology Thursday in an evening of entertainment centered on a major announcement about the university’s future: RIT is publicly launching a $1 billion blended campaign, the largest fundraising effort in the university’s history.
  • July 10, 2018

    RIT community joins Fringe Festival fun

    RIT students, faculty, staff and Osher members are part of an 11-day lineup of more than 500 eclectic performances in this year’s KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, Sept. 12-22 in Rochester.
  • March 19, 2018

    RIT pep band in matching RIT Jerseys pose for picture at hockey game.

    Pep band grows as school spirit swells

    When the RIT men’s hockey team played during Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend last October, 140 people were in the pep band cheering the team on, marking the largest attendance the modern pep band has ever seen since forming in 2006 with fewer than 20 members.
  • February 15, 2018

    Brown Haydn text logo.

    RIT Press receives award for innovative journal

    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.
  • January 24, 2018

    Yellow glittery flat shoes with bows on them.

    The Wonderful World of Oz comes to RIT/NTID

    The performing arts department at NTID presents The Wonderful World of Oz, April 19-22, with encore performances June 28-July 1 in celebration of NTID's 50th-anniversary reunion celebration.