Sustainability News

The Climate and Sustainability Leadership Program brings together students across all majors to learn through campus discussions and hands-on experiences with Rochester-area partners. The goal is to create leaders in sustainability.

Emily Bernal and her colleagues at RIT’s Image Permanence Institute are dedicated to helping museums, libraries, and archives adopt more eco-friendly methods for managing climate control systems.

RIT Dubai is partnering with SmartKable Powerline Solutions, a New York-based company, and its Middle East and Africa arm SmartKable Equinova, to develop an AI solution that will enable a smarter electric grid.

RIT architecture Professor Amanda Reis and students designed and built the ‘Peace Pavilion’ at Bethel Woods for BuildFest 2: Peace Rises.

An essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, published by Basis Point Insight.

Satellites, planes, drones, canoes, and more were deployed at RIT’s Tait Preserve for ROCX 2025, an open-community, major data-collection experiment.

The field station will be open and available to all departments across the RIT community and allow for researchers to remain on-site instead of having to always move research materials between the preserve and the main campus.

Researchers at the New York State Center of Excellence in Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing at Golisano Institute for Sustainability are helping advance a lab-born breakthrough into viable climate technology.

Democrat and Chronicle highlights the work of Golisano Institute for Sustainability's textile recycling machine.

During his first State of the University Address on Wednesday, President Bill Sanders said RIT will continue to deliver a world-class education, support groundbreaking research and scholarship, and be a destination for talent from every corner of the globe.

Saunders College of Business and the World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance signed a Memorandum of Understanding, creating a powerful new partnership to advance sustainability across the global hospitality sector.

Sherralyn Sneezer, a Ph.D. candidate at RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has been selected as a 2025 Quad Fellow. She joins a cohort of 37 students focused on applying science and technology to pressing global problems.