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Ian Mortimer named RIT vice president for Enrollment Management
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 2:14pm
Ian Mortimer '04 (MBA), who has 25 years of experience in higher education, has been named vice president of Enrollment Management at Rochester Institute of Technology. With an enrollment of nearly 19,000 students, RIT is one of the largest private universities in the nation. Students hail from all 50 states and more…
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Saunders College names John 'Dutch' Summers as 2018 Vanden Brul Award recipient
Monday, June 11, 2018 - 8:38pm
John "Dutch" Summers, CEO of Graywood Companies, Jasco Heat Treating and Jasco Pharmaceuticals LLC, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, presented by Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology. The award, which is given to entrepreneurial leaders within the upstate New…
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Former FCC head urges RIT graduates to humanize technology-driven changes
Friday, May 11, 2018 - 3:15pm
As new technology evolves, the challenge for graduating students is to figure out how it can benefit humanity. That was the message Thomas Wheeler, former director of the Federal Communications Commission, shared with graduates at Rochester Institute of Technology's 133rd annual commencement in the Gordon Field House today. He was one of…
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Annual Imagine RIT highlights academic and artistic creativity
Saturday, April 28, 2018 - 9:06pm
Christian Goossen was explaining to a visitor an exhibit on how a person might survive on Mars. The visitor asked how far along he was on his Ph.D. "I'm a freshman," replied Goossen, a biotechnology and molecular bioscience major from Chili, N.Y. Goossen was among hundreds of RIT students behind a record 438 exhibits…
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RIT earns national recognition as 'Diversity Champion' by 'INSIGHT Into Diversity'
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 7:39pm
INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine named Rochester Institute of Technology a Diversity Champion for the third consecutive year. The national distinction aims to identify schools that exemplify an unyielding commitment to diversity and inclusion throughout their campus communities, across academic programs and at the highest administrative levels. "For the third year in a…
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President Munson to field questions on WITR radio show
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 - 6:20pm
WITR-FM (89.7) presents Ask Munson, featuring RIT's president taking listener questions live at 3 p.m. Wednesday. To ask a question, tweet @WITR897 using #askmunson. This is the fourth and final installment in this acadmic year's quarterly series of live radio shows. You can also follow President Munson on Twitter: @RITPresident.…
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