Rochester University history

In 1961 an additional science classroom was completed to create more learning space.

In 1963, the college achieved a major honor as it became a state accredited college.

In 1965 Muirhead center was completed.

When Paul Miller began his term in 1969, the campus had just moved to Henrietta.

The board dropped “Junior” from the institution’s name in 1978 as the college prepared for the addition of its first bachelor’s degree program.

Koshiba was able to confirm Davis’s results—that the Sun produces neutrinos and that fewer neutrinos were found than had been expected (a deficit that became known as the solar neutrino problem). In 1987 Kamiokande also detected neutrinos from a supernova explosion outside the Milky Way.

Rose helped launch RIT’s first Ph.D. program, in imaging science, in 1988.

After building a larger, more sensitive detector named Super-Kamiokande, which became operational in 1996, Koshiba found strong evidence for what scientists had already suspected—that neutrinos, of which three types are known, change from one type into another in flight.

The name was changed from Michigan Christian College to Rochester College in 1997.

In the year 2006, the state authorized the institution to recommend teachers for certification.

In 2011 women’s softball team captures the national title, and in the same year, the institution gets Michigan Board of Nursing approval for their nursing program.

In 2013 John Tyson was named as the college’s current president, as the men’s’ basketball team wins the fifth national title.