RIT student creates easy way to manage IM, e-mail, Facebook, MySpace
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Steven Shapiro, creator of Digsby [video]
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DeMartino, O'Connor Win Award
Richard DeMartino and Gina O'Connor were honored on Thursday evening, January 10th, with an award from the PDMA Western NY for receiving Best Paper Award 2007 from the Journal of Product Innovation and Management.
The award was presented by Richard Notorgiacomo at the PDMA meeting in the Saunders College of Business.
News & Announcements
Dirshan Hiranandani, Director and CEO, Hircon Interntional Top Entrepreneur Named - recent MBA student
Darshan Hiranandani, a recent RIT MBA graduate student, was named by Business Week as one of the top entrepreneurs under 25 in Asia. He is currently working on a project to build the tallest residential building in the world in the Middle East.
Incubator Startup Launches Out On Their Own
Cerion Energy, a producer of a nano-particle diesel fuel additive, is the
first startup to launch out of the RIT Venture Creations incubator program and was recently mentioned on Red Herring. [Full story from Red Herring]
New Course Offered - Seminar in Digital Entrepreneurship
Are you considering starting a digital business? Our seminar, Digital Entrepreneurship, brings together state of the art knowledge in digital business practices with a crash course in Entrepreneurship. This highly interactive, applied experience will allow students to develop business ideas, discover RIT resources that support new ventures, network with and learn from industry experts, and complete a professional plan to communicate and advance your digital business venture.
Seminar in Digital Entrepreneurship - full course description
CIE Program featured in Business Week article on Best Design Schools
In the first-ever survey of "Best Design Schools," BusinessWeek names Rochester Institute of Technology among the top programs in North America, Europe and Asia. RIT joins 33 other colleges and universities in the United States and Canada recognized by BusinessWeek for "graduating the innovators companies hunger for."
PIE (Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) was highlighted in a recent Business Week article (October 9, 2006) as one of the top design-related academic partnerships. Founded last year as a university-wide organization to promote innovation-related activities, PIE enhances entrepreneurship across the RIT campus by facilitating business creation and product commercialization projects among business, creative and technology-oriented students.
Classes associated with the University’s entrepreneurship minor are administered through RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business. "These are unique hybrid programs that allow students to get an excellent education," says Richard DeMartino, Saunders College associate professor of management and director of PIE’s academic component. .The new institute-wide undergraduate entrepreneurship minor enables students to integrate a broad variety of related coursework with an applied entrepreneurship experience."
Brian Lio , a 2006 RIT graduate who participated in the PIE program, is also featured in the article. Lio now works as a product manager for Microsoft.
Other campus partners with the School of Design include the multidisciplinary senior design program in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering and the new media program in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.
The BusinessWeek report on top design and innovation schools is available online here.