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WHEC-TV speaks with Julie Purpura, visiting lecturer of hospitality and tourism management at RIT, about the university’s wine and beverage courses, which offer students hands-on learning experiences that can lead to careers in the beverage industry or foster a lifelong appreciation for wine.

RIT President Bill Sanders will make his first appearance of the fall semester on WITR-FM (89.7) radio at 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22.

WROC-TV highlights RIT’s Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend, which featured a special appearance by renowned science educator Bill Nye.

Tigers of Geographic Information and Research is more than a geography club, although its members do love maps. Geographic information systems technology is used to analyze and visualize location-based data, with applications varying from urban planning and environmental management to crime analysis. 

RIT Professor Christina Goudreau Collison has received an award for excellence in teaching from a branch of the American Chemical Society.

The Mercer Island Reporter interviews 2025 RIT game design and development graduate Brandon Korn about Space Raccoons: Raccoons in Space, a game he and fellow RIT students developed while at RIT.

Rochester Beacon features an essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, examining research suggesting that exposure to international students fosters lasting cultural openness, social integration, and international mobility without negatively affecting domestic students’ career outcomes.

RIT track coach Pete Todd, who guided 49 All-Americans and 14 cross country teams to NCAA Division III finals in his 32-year career, is remembered in a new biography.

When the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory needed multiple stands that could each support up to 45,000 pounds of superconducting magnets in limited space, an RIT student designed the solution.

In a digital world shaped by artificial intelligence, a new AI & Copyright for Creatives course will provide students with foundational knowledge of copyright law, encouraging them to explore how those laws do and do not protect their work.