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Rochester Institute of Technology’s 10th annual Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival takes place Saturday. More than 30,000 people are expected to attend. The festival, which features 400 interactive exhibits in science, technology, engineering, the arts and more, as well ...

Rochester Institute of Technology has been named the No. 1 game design school on the East Coast by Animation Career Review, an online platform for aspiring animation, game design and development, graphic design and digital art professionals. It also named ...

The Rochester Institute of Technology will host the two-day, 2017 International NASA Space Apps Challenge from April 29-30. RIT is one of 200 host sites globally to take part in the hackathon. AT&T Inc. is sponsoring the hackathon, which aims ...

Monroe Community College’s new Optics & Photonics Technology Innovation program, OPT IN!, has received $550,434 from the National Science Foundation to connect more high school and college students to career opportunities in the growing fields and produce a skilled workforce ...

A series of free events and workshops for business owners are available through Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship. The workshops and events will provide insight into the local market environment, RIT said. All events will be held ...

Hobart and William Smith Colleges on Thursday named its next president. The board of trustees voted to approve the presidential search committee’s recommendation naming Gregory Vincent as the 27th president of Hobart College and the 16th of William Smith College ...

The founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code—Reshma Saujani—is slated to speak at Rochester Institute of Technology on Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Ingle Auditorium. Girls Who Code was launched to help increase the number of women ...

Nazareth College has recognized Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez as the recipient of the 10th annual 2017 Woerner Kollmorgen Award for Community Service. Padilla-Rodriguez, director of community partnerships for the Rochester City School District, is to be honored at Nazareth College on April ...

Sydor Instruments, a Sydor Technologies company, said Tuesday it has been awarded a $223,861 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I grant from the Department of Energy, Office of Science. Sydor Instruments will use this grant in collaboration with Cornell University ...

Of all places to be deemed acoustically dead, a theater should not be one of them. That notion was the driving force behind a $3.85 million, two-year renovation of Monroe Community College’s Brighton campus theater.  The theater holds 539 seats. ...

When her infant daughter was diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago, Deborah Denome rolled up her sleeves and began greening her home. “She’s fine now, but that was my turning point,” says Denome, director of Shimmering Light Farm & Renewal ...

With a focus on measures that range from water and energy conservation to the re-use of existing structures, Monroe Community College is creating a green campus downtown. The college is working toward energy conservation and sustainability goals using green building ...

Rochester Institute of Technology heads to the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, officials announced Thursday. The competition’s aim is help train the next generation of cybersecurity experts, RIT said. The event runs through Saturday. The past few years RIT ...

This fall, Nazareth College’s School of Management will add a master of science degree in business organization and management, officials announced Thursday. The new degree will be a 10-month, 30-credit hour program designed for undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts ...

President Bill Clinton will deliver this year’s commencement address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. “We are honored to welcome President Clinton back to Hobart and William Smith as the 2017 Commencement speaker,” President Mark Gearan said Wednesday. “President Clinton’s ...