News by Topic: Community Outreach

WHAM-TV features the RIT Big Shot at Highmark Stadium and speaks to Eric Kunsman, assistant professor in the Department of Visual Communications Studies, and first-year photographic sciences student Emerson Pearlberg about the event.

RIT commemorated the Buffalo Bills’ final season at Highmark Stadium on Oct. 11 with nighttime photos, including a 360-degree panoramic image that will be displayed in the new stadium when it opens next year.

Award-winning comics artists will discuss their art, characters, and publishing careers during an exhibit opening and book-signing event at RIT.

WROC-TV features Deaf Culture Awareness Day at the Seneca Park Zoo.

Rochester Beacon shares highlights from RIT's talk with John Williams, New York Federal Reserve Bank president and CEO.

A year ago, four engineering technology students were taking the class Foundation of Metals that included a brief training program on how welding is used in manufacturing. They knew they wanted more and a student chapter of the American Welding Society was born.

WHEC-TV covers the inauguration of William H. Sanders, RIT's 11th president.

RIT will become a destination not just for students but for ideas, Bill Sanders said as part of formal ceremonies to install him as RIT’s 11th president. RIT community members, delegates from 42 universities, and state and community leaders attended the tradition-filled ceremony on Sept. 26.

WROC-TV speaks to Maria Richart, director of Career Services and Cooperative Education, about the evolving landscape of the workforce.

WHAM-TV highlights ROCgirl Hacks, a hackathon hosted by RIT's Women in Computing group.

RIT’s Gap Year Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program supports students who explore entrepreneurial ideas while earning a college degree.

A Rochester and Finger Lakes region coalition that includes researchers from RIT has been named a finalist for the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program.