News by Topic: Alumni
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September 5, 2013
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
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
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
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
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
RIT Day with the Rochester Red Wings on Aug. 24
RIT invites all its alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and supporters to Frontier Field on Saturday, Aug. 24, for the first-ever RIT Day with the Rochester Red Wings. -
August 15, 2013
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. -
August 13, 2013
Hospitality students volunteer at PGA Championship
Three students worked alongside event organizers as hosts, servers and guides to the more than 25,000 people who attended the event daily. -
August 12, 2013
RIT’s next Big Shot returns to Rochester
After Cowboys Stadium earlier this year, the Big Shot team is preparing to point its lenses at one of Rochester’s natural and iconic spectacles: High Falls. -
July 30, 2013
Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords headline homecoming
Brick City Weekend features a talk by astronaut Mark Kelly and former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and a performance by comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood. -
July 23, 2013
RIT partners with green biotech company
Sweetwater Energy, which makes a concentrated plant-sugar mixture for production of biofuels, biochemicals and bioplastics, seeks to develop a pipeline of RIT students. -
July 22, 2013
Axom Gallery exhibition features work by RIT alum
Gareth Fitzgerald Barry ’13 recycles found objects into sculpture. His work will be featured in an exhibition at Axom Gallery.