Alumni News

Forward-thinking faculty; curriculum that fuses technology, the arts, and design; and a legacy of priming students with a maker mentality helped RIT’s School of Film and Animation maintain its place on TheWrap’s list of Top 50 Film Schools of 2025.

The Red Spider Nebula, named for its distinct shape, can now be seen clearer than ever thanks to work by RIT scientists.

RIT is celebrating entrepreneur and philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano’s legacy with a student-curated exhibit in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences atrium.

Thousands of students, alumni, and their families attended dozens of events Oct. 17-19 during Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend.

Pickin' Splinters highlights RIT's victory over Clarkson University during RIT's Brick City Homecoming Weekend on Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Rochester Blue Cross Arena.

The New York Times features Manresa Wilds, a Connecticut project led by philanthropist Austin McChord ’09 (bioinformatics) that transforms a former power plant into a public park showcasing innovative environmental and community renewal. (This content will require a subscription to view.)

The Secret Lives of Books, a special topics elective offered by the museum studies program in the College of Liberal Arts, gives hands-on experience with paper, ink, pigments, and all the material components of a book.

WHAM-TV features the RIT Big Shot at Highmark Stadium and speaks to Eric Kunsman, assistant professor in the Department of Visual Communications Studies, and first-year photographic sciences student Emerson Pearlberg about the event.

RIT commemorated the Buffalo Bills’ final season at Highmark Stadium on Oct. 11 with nighttime photos, including a 360-degree panoramic image that will be displayed in the new stadium when it opens next year.

RIT alumnus Elan Lee ’98 (computer science), creator of the game Exploding Kittens, was featured in two episodes of NPR’s Planet Money podcast about making an economics board game.

Thousands of RIT students searched for co-ops and full-time employment at more than 230 local, regional, and national companies represented at the University-wide Career Fair on Oct. 8.

Two Western New York zoological facilities, in collaboration with regional partners serving the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community, are teaming up to promote inclusivity, connection, and awareness of Western New York's vibrant Deaf and hard-of-hearing community.