President’s News
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December 9, 2019
President Munson to field questions on WITR radio show
WITR-FM (89.7) presents Ask Munson, featuring RIT’s president taking listener questions live at 1 p.m. Dec. 11.
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December 3, 2019
RIT gifted 177-acre estate to expand research, educational offerings
RIT will use a substantial gift of real estate in Penfield to expand the university’s research and educational offerings in ecology, agriculture, sustainability and other fields. Amy Leenhouts Tait and Robert C. Tait have gifted to the university their 177-acre property, which will be dedicated as the Tait Preserve of RIT.
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November 22, 2019
Which local college has the best ROI?
The Rochester Beacon reports that RIT ranks No. 1 in the Rochester area in “A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges," a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
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November 18, 2019
New hub will bring magic of Imagine RIT to campus every day
An ambitious initiative along the Quarter Mile will transform RIT into a maker’s heaven, where the arts and technology converge and ideas percolate freely.
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October 21, 2019
President Munson to field questions on WITR radio show
WITR-FM (89.7) presents Ask Munson, featuring RIT’s president taking listener questions live at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 23.
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August 26, 2019
RCSD/RIT scholarship program marks 10th year
WHAM-TV reports on the newest class of Destler/Johnson Rochester City Scholars.
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August 23, 2019
RIT president outlines progress on major initiatives
RIT President David Munson this morning welcomed back the community, saying that the university is positioned for another exciting academic year.
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August 20, 2019
RIT to welcome 10th Destler/Johnson Rochester City Scholars cohort and first Davitt Scholars
RIT will welcome the 10th class of Destler/Johnson Rochester City Scholars, a program that has provided more than 200 graduates of the Rochester City School District and Rochester charter schools with the opportunity to attend RIT tuition-free since 2010. RIT will also welcome the first two recipients of the Mark and Maureen Davitt Graduate Education Endowed Scholarship.
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August 19, 2019
Rochester is a vibrant college town
President David Munson writes about Rochester's college vibe in the Democrat and Chronicle.
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July 11, 2019
RIT names two new members to its board of trustees
Joining the RIT Board of Trustees are Nita Genova, who will be filling a two-year term as part of her role as president of RIT’s Women’s Council, and Dana A. Mehnert, president of L3Harris Technologies Communication Systems Sector.
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May 29, 2019
RIT experts shine at Rochester’s Light and Sound Interactive Conference June 25-27
RIT experts will help Rochester push the edge of light- and sound-based technologies at the Light and Sound Interactive conference. The event aims to spur economic growth, as leading technologists and innovators come to Rochester for collaboration on the future of light-and-sound based technologies, applications and emerging industries.
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May 10, 2019
RIT’s record 4,200 graduates challenged to ‘enrich the world’
Keynote speaker John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), told graduates during this morning's convocation ceremony that they are entering “the Imagination Age, an age that calls for new ways to see, to imagine, to think, to act, to learn and one that also calls for us to re-examine the foundations of our way of being human, and what it means to be human.”