RIT History
RIT is known for being one of the world’s first universities to have a college dedicated to this field of science involving images and light.
What is Imaging Science?
This building remains one of the symbolic hearts of the River Campus, known for its dome.
What is Rush Rhees Library?
This field of BME refers to the study of forces acting on the human body.
What is biomechanics?
BMES stands for this professional organization for biomedical engineers.
What is the Biomedical Engineering Society?
What planet is known as the Red Planet?
What is Mars?
This internationally known school for the deaf became part of RIT in 1968.
What is NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf)?
This iconic musical event has been held annually on the Eastman Quad since the 1970s.
What is Dandelion Day (D-Day)?
This term describes a material that does not trigger an immune response in the body.
What is biocompatible?
The BMES Annual Meeting is typically held during this season of the year.
What is fall?
What country has the most natural lakes?
What is Canada?
This institute that would later become RIT was founded in 1829 to promote practical and cultural education.
What is the Rochester Athenaeum?
The River Campus was built on land donated by the family of this famous local entrepreneur.
Who is George Eastman?
This imaging device uses high-frequency sound waves to image soft tissues.
What is ultrasound?
A Gold, Silver, or Bronze Chapter Award from BMES recognizes excellence in this category.
What is student chapter performance / outstanding chapter activities?
What fruit is dried to make a prune?
What is a plum?
Before the Henrietta campus, RIT’s buildings were located in this area of Rochester, eventually cleared as part of urban renewal.
What is the downtown/Center City area?
This Nobel laureate biologist conducted groundbreaking RNA research at UR in the 1960s.
Who is Arthur Kornberg?
This mathematical tool transforms signals from the time domain into the frequency domain.
What is the Fourier transform?
BMES is officially headquartered in this U.S. city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
How many bones are in the adult human body?
What is 206?
The institute officially adopted the name “Rochester Institute of Technology” in this decade.
What is the 1940s? (specifically 1944)
The River Campus originally opened as an all-male school before merging with the women’s college, formerly located here.
What is the Prince Street Campus?
Engineers use this law to relate stress and strain in linear elastic materials.
What is Hooke’s Law?
This new campaign was launched by BMES at the BMES annual meeting.
What is "Pipeline to Progress" Campaign?
What animal has the longest lifespan?
What is the Greenland shark? (possibly more than 400 years)