Rochester Institute of Technology

Recent RIT College of Science grad Ashley Adair is a trailblazer in her family. This May, she was the first to earn a college degree. She is also one of the first RIT students to graduate from a program that equips STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors with skills for navigating college.

Fifteen students in the Intro to Environmental Studies course published their essays online in Orion Magazine's "The Place Where You Live" section. Students were encouraged to write about their hometown, the house in which they grew up, or some other aspect of the place that means the most to them.

Five RIT game design and development students are on track for the annual Train Jam, a 52-hour video game building event held on an Amtrak train from Chicago to California.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is proud to announce the recipients of a 2016 Love of Learning Award from Session B of the program. The awards help fund post-baccalaureate studies and career development for active Phi Kappa Phi members.

The game app, called Dividr, took home an Apple Design Award at the tech giant's Worldwide Developer Conference on June 13.

Kevin Sacca made social networking website Reddit's front page recently with his "Ask Me Anything," or AMA, about multispectral imaging of historical documents.

Nineteen graduation delegates represented RIT's 11 colleges during this year's commencement and convocation ceremonies. Delegates were selected based on their academic standing.

Selene Chew, third-year computational mathematics major in the College of Science, won the overall Best Paper Award for "Normalized Cuts with Soft Must-Link Constraints for Image Segmentation and Clustering."

For the first time, Rochester Institute of Technology's MAGIC Spell Studios has published a student-developed game on Steam, the world's largest digital game distribution platform.

Jie Yang, a Ph.D. student in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, won the Best Remote Sensing Paper for "A Combined Approach for Ice Sheet Elevation Extraction from Lidar Point Clouds"

Area high school students are back home after participating in a national career exploration camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Selene Chew presented her scientific research at the IEEE conference, Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, or WHISPERS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 24-27.

South Burlington, Vt., resident Amanda Ziemann presented her scientific research at the IEEE conference, Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, or WHISPERS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 24-27.

Ph.D. student Amanda Ziemann participated in the National Photonics Initiative Congressional Visits Day to promote government funding for photonics-driven technology.

Seven students from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering installed a Vertical X-Y Camera Rig they designed and built for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hannah Miller will receive the 2014 RIT Outstanding Female Senior Award, given to a graduating senior who demonstrates high scholarship and academic success in the face of personal challenges.

Valeria Gonzalez, an undergraduate engineering student, was part of a research team at Rochester institute of Technology that found cement and concrete strength could be improved by more than 50 percent of traditional use by incorporating industrial waste, specifically alkali-activated slag from blast furnaces. Her project work was recognized at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers annual conference this past winter.

Jen Lamere, a first-year software engineering student at Rochester Institute of Technology, has been named the Emerging Talent of the Year by the 2014 Net Awards, an event hosted by net magazine to celebrate the best in Web design and development.

Several students received a 2014 Leadership Award from Rochester Institute of Technology during a ceremony April 2.

Jen Lamere, a first-year software engineering student at Rochester Institute of Technology, has been nominated for the 2014 Net Award in the category of Emerging Talent of the Year. She is the only woman nominated in the 10-person category and the only nominee from the U.S.

Research by students at Rochester Institute of Technology to improve use of carbon nanotubes as a possible solution to filter and remove materials from wastewater was recognized at the 2013 Undergraduate Student Poster Competition, part of the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Area high school students are back home after participating in a national career exploration camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Rochester Institute of Technology. Nearly 200 students from as far away as California attended.

A team of Rochester Institute of Technology students will be honored for its educational game Sky Time at the White House Champions of Change event on July 23.

Two second-year students in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at RIT traveled to Hawaii to speak at two conferences on the Innovative Freshman Experience program in the Center for Imaging Science.

The following local residents received a 2013 Leadership Award from Rochester Institute of Technology during a ceremony April 10.

Student Ready to Make Positive Impact on World

Physician assistant major is changing people's lives

The following local residents were named 2011-2012 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars at Rochester Institute of Technology:

RIT Students Help Improve Safety of Drinking Water in Chiapas, Mexico

Busy student leaves her mark at RIT