News by Topic: Alumni

Deborah L. Medwig ’78 was a passenger on United Airlines flight 175, the second hijacked plane to strike the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, and Philip M. Rosenzweig ’77 was among the passengers who died when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower.

Saunders College of Business celebrated the expansion and renovation of Max Lowenthal Hall with a ceremonial groundbreaking Aug. 31. RIT President David Munson and Saunders College Dean Jacqueline Mozrall were joined by donors E. Philip Saunders, Susan Riedman Holliday, Chance Wright, Brigitte Gueldenpfennig, and Dinah Gueldenpfennig Weisberg during the college’s annual welcome picnic.

Adweek features Kristen Risk '90 (business administration), co-founder and SVP of marketing communications of Frankly Organic Vodka.

RIT Press turns 20 this year, and the future is bright for the scholarly book publisher at RIT. Expanded partnerships and community-related projects give RIT Press new momentum as it enters its third decade.

John McNicholl, a 2021 RIT graduate from Commack, N.Y, has launched a new game—Deceiver—that is now available on Amazon and at Shop One on campus and was recently incorporated into RIT’s New Student Orientation program as an icebreaker.

Politico features Paula Bronstein '78 (photojournalism) detailing her experience on assignment in Afghanistan leading up to the Taliban takeover.

Rochester Business Journal features the expansion and upgrades coming to Lowenthal Hall, home of Saunders College of Business.

Metaproject 12 promises to be the cat’s meow this academic year. Students in RIT’s industrial design program will spend the semester designing products for Modkat, the award-winning maker of cat litter boxes. Metaproject pairs students with a different industry partner each year.

Students, faculty, and staff are starting a new year during a continuing global pandemic. But that’s not stopping the momentum of student success, research, fundraising, and building projects designed to make RIT even better. That was just part of the message RIT President David Munson told the university community this morning at his annual President’s Address.

WROC-TV features Kayla Sandoval '15 (mechanical engineering technology), owner of Biscotti Brewers.

RIT scientists have uncovered new information about the way coronavirus and several of its variants attach to human cells. The researchers examined how coronaviruses use their spike proteins to attach themselves to the host cells they are attacking.

City Newspaper features Carly Kraft ’18 (new media interactive development), singer-guitarist in the band Coral Moons.