News by Topic: Community Outreach

A remote networking session Associate Professor Brenda Abu attended for academics from African countries has led to a promising collaboration that extends her scholarship and the influence of RIT to communities in Ghana.

Casting aside the daily doomscroll and picking up a slow hobby like hand-stitched embroidery can provide a much-needed brain break for students. It can also open the door for them to give back to the community while expressing themselves.

Christy Tyler, professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, is featured on KPFA's Green Street podcast talking about her work uncovering the sources of plastic pollution that end up in our water. 

Two RIT faculty members are building a comprehensive workforce development program in manufacturing for veterans and under-employed individuals to provide the needed skills-based training in electronics assembly.

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.

Rochester Business Journal discusses how RIT's health sciences programs offer clinical, business, and digital health leadership skills, and how a partnership with Rochester Regional Health offers meaningful opportunities within a major regional health system. (This content will require a subscription to view.)

RIT is celebrating entrepreneur and philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano’s legacy with a student-curated exhibit in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences atrium.

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.

WROC-TV speaks to Erich Lehman ’97, ’99 MS, systems administrator in the College of Art and Design, about the opportunities the skatepark will offer the community.

Rochester Business Journal discusses how embedding in Rochester will allow amPICQ to access a local pipeline of skilled professionals from RIT. (This content may require a subscription to view.)

Thousands of students, alumni, and their families attended dozens of events Oct. 17-19 during Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend.

WHEC-TV highlights NTID's Deaf and hard-of-hearing career fair, which was hosted on Thursday, Oct. 16.