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RIT Returns to Fashion Week Rochester with Remarkable Creativity

After two years away from the runway, RIT metals and jewelry design students and alumni triumphantly returned to Fashion Week Rochester Thursday night with a stunning demonstration of technology, art, and design in the form of self-designed wearable sculpture.

A record number of first-year students Wednesday made their way to the Gordon Field House and Activities Center to cheers and welcomes from faculty, staff, and members of the RIT Pep Band during the annual Tiger Walk and New Student Convocation.

Students, faculty, and staff are starting a new year during a continuing global pandemic. But that’s not stopping the momentum of student success, research, fundraising, and building projects designed to make RIT even better. That was just part of the message RIT President David Munson told the university community this morning at his annual President’s Address.

View Comments If local fundraising efforts are successful, the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport would be further adorned with a permanent bronze statue of its namesake. The first monument to Douglass, which was also the first monument in the country dedicated to the accomplishments of a Black man, was installed in 1899 at a train station near the present-day intersection of St. Paul and Central Ave. “The Mayor at that time, Mayor Warner, wanted to send a strong message to everyone arriving at the main portal to our city that exclaimed the importance of this man, an...