News
Donna Burnette
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January 11, 2021
RIT Sponsored Research garners $82 million
RIT had its best year ever for sponsored research funding. For fiscal year 2020, which ended June 30, RIT received 382 new awards totaling $82 million. The record funding follows almost $58 million in research expenditures in fiscal year 2019, also a record.
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July 2, 2020
RIT Camp Tiger offers virtual Dungeons and Dragons this summer
The K-12 University Center at RIT is offering virtual summer camp programming this year centered around the popular roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons. A series of weeklong workshops for students in fifth to 12th grades will run July 6 through Aug. 14.
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March 18, 2020
RIT’s K-12 program partners with Army
RIT’s K-12 University Center is leveraging the university’s strength in experiential learning and career readiness in a new partnership with the Army Educational Outreach Program. RIT will receive $14 million to expand the Army’s apprenticeship programs and cultivate a STEM-literate workforce that reflects the nation’s demographics.
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October 15, 2019
RIT GEAR UP celebrates Rochester Class of 2020
A special partnership between RIT and the Rochester City School District and charter schools has primed the Class of 2020 for success through a college and career readiness program that began six years ago, when the cohort was in middle school, and has now reached its culminating year.
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August 6, 2019
Dungeons and Dragons camp at RIT: More than monsters and adventure
WROC-TV reports on Dungeons and Dragons camp, one of programs of Camp Tiger at RIT.
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May 20, 2019
Zuckerberg Media pilots ‘Sue’s Tech Kitchen’ at RIT in July
Sue’s Tech Kitchen, a STEM-Ed camp developed by Zuckerberg Media, will be offered through RIT's Camp Tiger program, formerly known as Kids on Campus, July 15-19, for children in third to fifth grade.