News
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March 31, 2017
IdeaLab teams proposed healthcare solutions
Twenty-one RIT students from multiple disciplines participated in the spring IdeaLab@RIT, held March 25-26, and developed possible solutions to challenges provided to them by Rochester Regional Health patients and healthcare personnel. -
March 24, 2017
Petterson to deliver keynote speech at Creative Industry Day
Sean Petterson, CEO and founder of New York City-based StrongArm Technologies, is scheduled to kick off Creative Industry Day by delivering the keynote speech from 11 a.m.-noon. Petterson is a 2013 industrial design graduate who was named a 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in manufacturing and industry.
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March 23, 2017
Computing, data-sharing expert to speak April 11
Ann Quiroz Gates, department chair and professor of computer science at the University of Texas at El Paso, will be the guest speaker at the sixth annual Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking Signature Lecture. -
March 10, 2017
Companies with RIT ties get $1M from state
Four early-stage companies launched at RIT have received more than $1 million through New York state’s Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise Investment Fund. -
March 1, 2017
Student enters game into Intel Showcase at GDC
John Miller, a third-year game design and development student, debuts his game Gibraltar in front of students and faculty from the nation’s top gaming schools at the highly anticipated Intel University Games Showcase at the 2017 Game Developers Conference. -
February 22, 2017
Global Payments exec headlines Power Your Potential
Jane Elliott will be discussing “What is your personal Big Hairy Audacious Goal” as Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology hosts the eighth annual Power Your Potential women’s leadership event on March 3. -
February 21, 2017
Health Innovation Challenge to open Imagine RIT
Each year, the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival has opened with a challenge from RIT President Bill Destler. This year, the contest is an interdisciplinary health innovation challenge. -
February 15, 2017
RIT to receive I-Corps grant
A partnership between NTID and the Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship will use National Science Foundation funding to provide support for deaf and hard-of-hearing STEM entrepreneurs. -
February 15, 2017
Alumni pitch business on ‘Shark Tank’
Two Saunders College of Business alumni will pitch their Elephant Pants product line on the ABC network reality TV show Shark Tank in an episode airing Feb. 24. -
February 10, 2017
Venture Creations grad partners with Delaware North
Electronic-sports franchise Splyce, a 2016 graduate of RIT’s Venture Creations business incubator, has signed a deal with Delaware North, a global food service and hospitality company. -
February 2, 2017
Venture Creations company featured in NASA report
Dimension Technologies Inc. was lauded by NASA for its LCD display technology that enables viewers to see full-resolution 3-D images without the need for special glasses or headsets. -
January 3, 2017
RIT alumnus named Forbes ‘30 Under 30’
RIT alumnus Sean Petterson landed on the prestigious 2017 Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list in manufacturing and industry. Petterson, who graduated from RIT in 2013 in industrial design, is a founder of the industrial safety products company StrongArm Technologies Inc.