News by Topic: Community Outreach

Monroe County’s Seneca Park Zoo, RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Rochester School for the Deaf will hold the first Deaf Culture Awareness Day at Seneca Park Zoo this Saturday, Sept. 17, rain or shine.

RIT will hold a remembrance vigil Monday morning for those who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The event begins at 8:10 a.m. outside RIT’s Student Alumni Union, next to The Sentinel sculpture, where 2,977 flags will be planted on the grass, honoring each life lost in the attacks.

RIT’s College of Liberal Arts and College of Science have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the RMSC to formalize a partnership between the institutions. Through the formalized partnership, RIT and RMSC will build upon and expand its existing collaborations to benefit both the RIT and greater Rochester communities.

The annual Rochester Game Festival will return on Saturday, Sept. 10, to RIT’s MAGIC Center. More than 30 developers, students, and faculty from Rochester and the western New York region will present their video games and board games for visitors to play.

WHAM-TV features the Phi Delta Theta fraternity's fundraising efforts for ALS research. Fraternity members are collecting quarters to lay end-to-end along the Quarter Mile.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 61: It all started in 1987 with a community project, a handful of faculty, and 37 students. Now, the RIT Big Shot is a larger campus tradition than anyone anticipated. Michael Peres, Gannett Chair in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, talks with Dan Hughes, lecturer in SPAS, and Eric Kunsman, assistant professor in visual communication studies, who will lead the Big Shot into the future.

RIT is among the sponsors for the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Celebration that takes place in September and October.

Local entrepreneurs Jnicolle Glover and Charletta Broome are still on cloud nine after walking away as the top prize winners of RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship ROC the Pitch competition.

WHEC-TV features a video game development program held at the Boys and Girls Club of Rochester this summer. The program, in collaboration with AT&T, was led by Sten McKinzie, lecturer, and Benjamin Snyder, visiting lecturer, in RIT's School of Interactive Games and Media.

Fox Rochester talks to Ebony Miller-Wesley, director of RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship, about the center's ROC the Pitch business competition.

Our solar system, Duke Ellington’s America, and mysteries of the mind are just some of the 43 classes offered this fall by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT.

The Rochester Beacon talks to Ian Mortimer, vice president of Enrollment Management and associate provost of RIT Certified, about supporting underrepresented students.