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Multidisciplinary student teams gained co-op and internship experience working on projects for Rochester-area organizations serving people with disabilities.

Ben Garvey founded Great Lakes Gaming, a downtown Rochester complex that he sees as a country club for local gamers, where people can compete and socialize.

RIT’s Creative Code for Music course encourages students to explore the intersection between technology and the arts. One manifestation of that involves showcasing their programming skills during a musical theater performance.

Tigers of Geographic Information and Research is more than a geography club, although its members do love maps. Geographic information systems technology is used to analyze and visualize location-based data, with applications varying from urban planning and environmental management to crime analysis. 

Artist Christine “CK” Sun Kim ’02 has been named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow, a prestigious award known as a “genius grant” that comes with an $800,000 stipend.

Small choices can have big consequences. That’s the idea at the heart of Peaceland: Choose Your Memory, a new video game being developed by students and faculty at RIT.

RIT is offering a new class based on the Emmy-award winning HBO Max Original drama series. The class is helping future healthcare professionals explore the ethical, emotional, and practical challenges they may one day face themselves.

Yasmine Ibrahim understands the challenges students face and the opportunities Student Government can offer to make positive differences.

RIT's MAGIC Spell Studios' Maker program provides students with the funding and support to manage their own digital media projects, and prepares them for publication and investment-readiness.

Multidisciplinary teams of RIT students collaborated on eight projects during the Studio 930 internship program, designing accessible healthcare solutions for children and adults with disabilities.

The Bernard Kozel StartUp Program is a 12-week immersive summer experience open to students from across the university and run through Saunders College of Business.

Hridiza Roy followed a summer internship at Disney Studios, with a fall position in the Gap Year Entrepreneurial Fellowship. The RIT program gave her a block of time and a stipend to advance her passion project—Painterly, an animation software tool.