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Research awards as well as national funding sources for economic development have increased to record levels at RIT, prompting the need for more research laboratory space on campus.

The college completed more than $25 million of upgrades and renovations to Max Lowenthal Hall. Designed by LaBella Associates, the space nearly doubled the size of RIT’s business college, adding more than 35,000 square feet.

The SHED complex covers 209,000 gross-square feet of combined new construction and an extensive renovation of Wallace Library. The $120 million complex represents RIT’s biggest capital project since the campus moved to Henrietta, N.Y., from downtown Rochester in 1968.

Spectrum News speaks to USA deaf women’s volleyball player Grace Phelan about training at RIT, home of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Rochester Business Journal speaks with Johan Klarin, assistant vice president and managing director of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

RIT has nearly doubled global opportunities in the past eight years, with 701 students participating in international experiences in the 2023-2024 academic year.

RIT Dubai, one of the university’s five global campuses, opened phase one of its new campus in 2021 and is now on to phase two, set to be complete in 2027. The new construction will be done in two stages and will help boost the campus enrollment to 4,000 students.

Today, there are 51 endowed professorships at RIT. Thirteen of those have been established since 2017. These named professorships help provide both the recognition and the resources that the highest caliber faculty and experts in their field deserve.

RIT’s athletics teams have been a powerhouse over the past decade, and now they’re getting the facilities to match their success. At the northern end of campus, a new facility for track and field welcomes visitors.

The 750 RIT undergraduate students who belong to one of the 28 fraternities or sororities on campus also perform thousands of hours of community service and raise thousands of dollars for charities each year.

The RIT-Genesee Country Village & Museum (GCV&M) Partnership, which is supported by the Philip K. and Anne Wehrheim Endowment, is just one example of how these collaborations provide a two- way bridge of benefits.

The curtain is set to rise in 2026 for RIT’s new music performance theater, a 750-seat, 40,000-square-foot complex that will be the first major theater to open in the Rochester area in decades.