News by Topic: Alumni

  • September 18, 2013

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    Saunders College hosts leadership summit

    Executive MBA Class 21 is hosting an Entrepreneurial Leadership Summit, focusing on how leaders proactively identify opportunities through innovation and market understanding.
  • September 18, 2013

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    Glass pumpkins cropping up at RIT

    The School for American Crafts will sell its unique, hand-blown glass pumpkins, gourds, vases and paperweights during the ninth-annual Glass Pumpkin Patch on Oct. 5.
  • September 11, 2013

    Alumni organize fall art exhibit

    Two RIT alumni will return to campus this fall as part of a group of five artists exhibiting at the Ohringer Gallery in the Dyer Arts Center.
  • September 11, 2013

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    RIT partnering to create charter high school

    Uncommon Schools and RIT are partnering to develop a charter high school in Rochester focusing on increasing the number of Rochester students who receive bachelor’s degrees.
  • September 10, 2013

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    Fisher-Price project engineer to speak at RIT

    RIT alumnus Brian Argauer will open this year’s Engineering Dean’s Alumni Speaker Series with “An Engineer for the Next Generation: Building a Multi-Disciplinary Background.”
  • September 5, 2013

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    RIT alumni continue child care legacy

    Mary Beth Pratt helped to found Child Care Council Inc. while she was attending RIT in the 1970s. The company has grown into a major not-for-profit child care resource.
  • August 23, 2013

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    Destler welcomes back RIT community

    RIT President Bill Destler urged the university community to collectively “sustain RIT’s momentum” in his annual welcome back address, delivered this morning.
  • August 22, 2013

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    Todd Pagano addresses RIT community

    RIT officially kicked off the school year on Wednesday with Fall Convocation. NTID’s Todd Pagano, the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year, delivered the keynote address.
  • August 19, 2013

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    RIT women ‘Light the Way’ Aug. 23

    Lighting the Way is a traditional welcoming ceremony for female first-year and transfer students that will celebrate the connections and contributions of women at RIT.
  • August 16, 2013

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    Program reaches out to city school parents

    CausBuzz, developed by a team of RIT students, is a mobile, cloud-based, automated check-in system to increase parental engagement in the Rochester City School District.
  • August 15, 2013

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    RIT welcomes first-year students

    New students moved in Tuesday, and the academic year officially kicked off with convocation Wednesday in the Gordon Field House.