News
Department of Packaging and Graphic Media Science
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February 10, 2020
RIT’s printing school renamed the Department of Graphic Media Science and Technology
The School of Media Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology will change its name to the Department of Graphic Media Science and Technology. The change is effective immediately.
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February 4, 2020
RIT hosts printing industry scientists
RIT will host a discussion featuring printing industry scientists who achieved a historic first: matching image quality and exceeding the consistency of traditional offset printing using a web-fed inkjet printer in production conditions. Print-technology researchers Henry Freedman, Peter Crean, Peter Dundas and Eric Zeise will visit campus Feb. 13.
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February 2, 2020
Undergraduate students create sustainable packaging options for Milwaukee Tool
Undergraduate students from packaging science, graphic design and industrial design worked over the semester to improve packaging and branding identity for Milwaukee Tools and its Shockwave power drill bits as part of the Packaging Systems class challenge.
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January 28, 2020
Graduate student’s research in identifying image manipulation can help lead to media literacy
Print media graduate student Emily Shriver headed a project to assess how individuals recognize manipulated images used in news. She found that most people are skeptical about images seen in print or online news, but only half can tell which images actually are altered.
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January 10, 2020
American Packaging Corp. renews support for packaging science program with gift
Funding from the long-time corporate partner will support two innovative packaging centers at RIT: the American Packaging Corp. Center for Packaging Innovation, a comprehensive teaching, research and testing laboratory; and the Center for Sustainable Packaging. Both centers are located in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology.
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December 5, 2019
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November 18, 2019
Learning from Industry: Employers keep RIT’s curriculum forward-looking
For the last several decades, volunteer groups have played a pivotal role in keeping RIT’s curriculum relevant and current with the latest industry trends. The groups of 10 to 30 leaders from a wide variety of companies come together a few times a year to offer their insights for RIT faculty and staff in nearly every college.
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October 31, 2019
RIT students place second in national packaging design competition
Team Pacman, a group of undergraduate students from Rochester Institute of Technology, placed second among 54 entries from competing universities in the recent Paperboard Packaging Alliance’s national Student Design Challenge.
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August 6, 2019
Bringing creativity into cybersecurity
You do what? From accountant to the stars to sustainable chocolate producer, RIT alumni have some pretty cool careers. Read about Allison Ritter ’14 (media arts and technology), creative director for IBM’s X-Force Command in Boston.
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August 4, 2019
Payal Sharma - Masters in Print Media Alumna
The School of Media Sciences “…has tremendous resources to support student work, backed by knowledgeable and caring professors; this helped in maintaining motivation while gaining confidence in my skills and abilities.”
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August 1, 2019
Jinkai Qian - Master's in Print Media Student Alumnus
RIT graduates work in the knowledge-based positions…in both production management and upper management positions…they are the most knowledgeable about color, printing, and pre-media applications, as well as the production workflow.
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July 31, 2019
Recent RIT grads receive Gold Leaf Award for student project
David Pflanz ’19, Sedera Zbranak ’19 and fourth-year student Karrie Chen worked with Print Panther, an independent print production company, to create the award-winning holiday box design.