News by Topic: Entrepreneurship

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well at RIT. Thanks to resources and programs from the Saunders College of Business and the Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, students are encouraged to take their out-of-the-box ideas and develop them into a fully realized products and business ventures.

August 7, 2018

Center for Quality and Applied Statistics hosts workshop

“Taking the Performance Excellence Journey: A Continuous Improvement Workshop” featuring members of the 2017 Baldrige National Quality Award winning team from Fort Collins, Colo.
August 7, 2018

RIT students learn value of entrepreneurship

Saunders Summer Startup Program encourages multidisciplinary student teams to jumpstart their ventures in hopes of kick starting real companies. It culminates with Investor Demo Night on Wednesday.
August 6, 2018

Alumnus designs label for RIT-themed beer

When David Moffitt ’07 (film and animation) began studying at RIT, he never imagined he would design labels for beer inspired by his alma mater.
August 6, 2018

CEO of optics company senses bright future

Michael Oshetski ’03 was watching the sun rise from an airport in Hong Kong when he turned to his good friend and coworker, Atul Pradhan, and asked if he wanted to start a company. Eight years later, the company is a multimillion dollar business changing the way the world senses with light.
August 6, 2018

Alumna creates feminist art and clothing line

Shehzil Malik ’14 (visual communication design) is a designer who has extensive experience as an advocate for social change. She believes in gender equality with every fiber of her being and hopes her work can help women around the world realize the power they have as individuals.
August 6, 2018

Inventors develop ring to combat cyber threats

Husband-and-wife entrepreneurs and RIT graduates Steve and Melanie Shapiro are celebrating the success of their third start-up, Token, an identity technology company that manufactures a biometric, encrypted ring with a fingerprint sensor with two-factor authentication.
July 11, 2018

Students awarded E. Philip Saunders scholarships

Three Livingston County students are the recipients of this year’s annual E. Philip Saunders Endowed Business Scholarship. They have been accepted at RIT’s Saunders College of Business, where they will begin classes in the fall.
July 2, 2018

Venture Creations companies place in accelerator competition

Two client companies in RIT’s Venture Creations incubator have won recognition and prize money from the New York state-funded Luminate NY accelerator program. Positive Science won third place in the competition and $250,000, and Molecular Glasses won $10,000 and the Audience Choice Award.
June 27, 2018

Company develops solar generators for hurricane victims

David Rodriguez ’92 is the founder of inverSOL, a client company of Venture Creations business incubator that produces solar generator systems. The company will open a manufacturing and retail facility in Puerto Rico to help those living in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
June 25, 2018

GIS dedicates Bal Dixit Laboratory

The Bal Dixit Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Fire Protection Research is made possible by a $2 million gift from RIT alumnus and former trustee Sudhakar “Bal” Dixit.
June 11, 2018

Saunders College names Vanden Brul Award winner

John “Dutch” Summers, CEO of Graywood Companies, Jasco Heat Treating and Jasco Pharmaceuticals LLC, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, which is given to entrepreneurial leaders within the upstate New York region.
May 4, 2018

Top stories and videos for April

News about an RIT student’s appearance on Jeopardy! was among most popular last month. Check out all of April’s top stories and videos.

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