Alumni News

Isha Mehta '20 (Graphic Design) credits professional experiences at Dixon Schwabl and other agencies/companies with preparing her for her design career.

Fox Rochester talks to Tisa Zito '09 (film and animation) about her directorial debut with the documentary ForeverMoore; The Angelo Project.

Bryan Williams '08 (Illustration) is an artist/animator for Workinman Interactive, a local game studio focused on the youth market.

RIT’s Saunders College of Business will welcome Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, star of ABC’s Shark Tank, as the 11th J. Warren McClure Lecture Series keynote speaker on April 8. The virtual event is open to the general public and will feature a one-hour lecture followed by a brief Q&A.

Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, talks with Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad '06 (computer science), principal research scientist at KenSci Inc., about using artificial intelligence in the medical field. Selinger has published six pieces on Medium’s OneZero platform about the intersection of technology and liberal arts.

While it isn’t surprising that infants and children love to look at people’s movements and faces, recent research from NTID studies exactly where they look when they see someone using sign language. The research uses eye-tracking technology that offers a non-invasive and powerful tool to study cognition and language learning in pre-verbal infants.

Council Rock, a graduate company from RIT’s Venture Creations business incubator, has received $7 million Series A funding, led by Grand Oaks Capital, the investment firm founded by businessman and philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano. Motorola Solutions, and other private investors, also participated in the investment round.

The New York Times interviews and features artwork by Christine Sun Kim ’02 (applied arts and sciences).

Essay by Amanda Ziemann ’10, ’11 MS (applied mathematics), a remote sensing scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, published by Space.com.

From the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China to RIT, a look at Gao Yahui's journey to becoming a furniture designer.

When the incidence of the COVID-19 virus increased locally this winter, clinical test labs experienced larger than normal volumes of specimens—and higher expectations of rapid turnaround of results. Industrial and systems engineering (ISE) alumni and former faculty members helped a local lab meet those goals.

Ying Chiun Lee ’21 MFA and Madeline Rile Smith ’20 MFA are showcasing their fusion of glass artistry and video in North Lands Creative's "Glass, Meet the Future Film Festival."