News
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December 1, 2025
Watch how RIT students package 30,000 meals for the Rochester community
Democrat and Chronicle highlights the student volunteer work that has accumulated over 500,000 meals total.
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November 25, 2025
EMBA students build community through a traveling stuffed tiger
A stuffed tiger named Cash is becoming their unlikely symbol of connection, traveling from home to home as a tangible link between classmates across the country.
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November 24, 2025
Software Engineering faculty and students celebrate newly renovated ‘Classroom of the Future’
Unconventional classroom with modern tech made possible by new gift from Palmers Family of Companies and Corning
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November 19, 2025
Club sports help students find their fit
Club sports are a big part of student life at the university. Every year, about 2,000 students are involved with the nearly 50 different club sports. For many, it scratches that competitive itch. For others, it’s a chance to try something new, find a community, and stay active.
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November 19, 2025
RIT innovation helps illuminate lost history
The goal of libraries, museums, and archives around the world is to safeguard historical documents, but some objects can deteriorate with time. RIT’s Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) lab is using funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a relatively low-cost system that makes cultural heritage imaging methods more accessible.
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November 19, 2025
Manifesting quantum: How RIT researchers are navigating the next frontier of physics
RIT researchers are zeroing in on quantum photonics, the creation, control, and detection of light. Photonics has long been a specialty of the university. RIT led the team that developed the first quantum photonic wafer, which is key to the future of mass-produced quantum communication systems.
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November 19, 2025
RIT hosts regional competition of International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
Two professors in RIT’s computer science department organized the Northeast North America regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, in which RIT placed 7th.
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November 19, 2025
RIT students pack meals for 8th Hunger Project
WROC-TV highlights the students, faculty, and staff that packaged meals for the community, speaking to Bill St. Jean, associate director of the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, about the impact.
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November 19, 2025
RIT’s Hunger Project packs over 30,000 meals for Rochester community and campus food pantry
WHEC-TV speaks to Bill St. Jean, associate director of the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, about the impact the food distribution has in the community.
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November 18, 2025
Psychology professor creates big team science network for otter research
Professor Caroline DeLong established the ManyOtters project in collaboration with several other universities to share research, knowledge, and to explore the cognitive abilities of otters. -
November 18, 2025
Civil engineering technology alumni return to grow RIT campus
Two civil engineering technology graduates from 2008 have returned to the RIT campus, this time, to use their knowledge to help build the Music Performance Theater set to open next spring.
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November 17, 2025
Early impressions: WITR hosts President Sanders
Learn what RIT President Bill Sanders’s early impressions are of the university when he visits WITR-FM (89.7) this week.