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City speaks to Amy Adrion, assistant professor of film and animation, about representation in Hollywood and the Academy Awards, including how limited diversity among filmmakers and decision-makers affects which stories are funded and recognized.

RIT has launched a new decade-long strategic framework that will guide the university’s priorities, investments, inspiration, and aspirations through 2035.

As part of a collaborative capstone project, students from new media design and new media interactive development are creating interactive experiences with alternative controllers. Three of the projects will be exhibited at the Game Developers Conference Festival of Gaming next week.

designboom spotlights an upcoming exhibition, "Lella and Massimo Vignelli: a language of Clarity," at Triennale Milano. The Milan-based exhibition was organized in collaboration with RIT's Vignelli Center for Design Studies.

Nearly 60 RIT students and 20 alumni and faculty members helped document the 2026 Winter Games as part of an ongoing collaboration with Special Olympics New York.

Three student-athletes majoring in industrial design used their collaborative mindsets to help bring their vision of an 8-foot-tall National Collegiate Athletic Association championship trophy to life.

Cartoon Brew interviews Christine A. Banna, assistant professor in the School of Film and Animation, about her creative process for animating Moira Smiley's "Haiku" music video.

Georg Seifert (from Germany) and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (Austria), cited for their innovative work with game-changing font editing software Glyphs, will accept RIT's prestigious Goudy Award in April. The honor has long celebrated outstanding practitioners in type design and related fields.

Steve Matteson's two-year appointment as as the Melbert B. Cary Professor in RIT’s School of Design marks a return to where his affinity for letterforms all started. Since graduating from RIT, he went on to become a typeface trailblazer, responsible for creating recognizable fonts and graphic language for huge brands.

Tommy Desjardins '26 (3D digital design) created an immersive environment for users to experience a visualization of the Psyche asteroid’s potential landscape. NASA's ongoing Psyche mission is aimed at reaching a metal-rich asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter to study its properties. 

Charles Gaines '67 MFA (art and design), a pivotal figure in the field of conceptual art, has an upcoming exhibition in RIT’s University Gallery that traces a loose arc of his career and illustrates his sustained interest in the lyrical potential of logical systems. He will also give a companion artist talk Thursday, March 26.

CBS News talks to Jacquelyn Martin ’01 (applied photography), staff photographer for the Associated Press, about capturing Lindsey Vonn's devastating crash on Sunday.