Where You Can Be Exceptional
The RIT campus was designed to inspire innovation, creativity, collaboration, expression, and performance. Here, you will find outstanding labs, studios, makerspaces, even a cyber range that will foster all of your exceptional ideas.
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Mechanical EngineeringThe Ride of a LifetimeNicole Rotondo ’16 (mechanical engineering) went from drivetrain lead on the RIT Formula One team to making history as the first women trackside engineer on a winning Indianapolis 500 team when Marcus Ericsson’s No. 8 car crossed the finish line first at the 2022 race. Learn about her life in the fast lane .
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New Economy MajorsPushing the Boundaries of Traditional MajorsTo respond to rapid changes in the workforce, RIT created a collection of academic programs–New Economy Majors–that are multidisciplinary, transformative, and future-proof.
New Economy Majors ensure successful outcomes while meeting the ever-changing needs of a new, and evolving, economy.
Learn how to meet tomorrow’s need
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Photojournalism option-photographic and imaging artsCapturing a Moment of HistoryEvan Vucci ’00 (photojournalism option-photographic and imaging arts) is one of 11 RIT grads who have won a combined 15 Pulitzer Prizes. He led the AP photography staff in winning a 2021 Pulitzer for a collection of photographs that captured the country’s response to the police killing of George Floyd.
Explore his life in pictures .
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Studying the Earliest Galaxies in the UniverseTwo RIT researchers, along with a team behind the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, used new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope to confirm the existence of the most distant active supermassive black hole ever found.
Learn how Jeyhan Kartaltepe and Rebecca Larson investigate the universe
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Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED)
RIT's Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) serves as RIT’s creative hub. It centralizes RIT's makerspaces and performing arts, providing dedicated space for students to create, imagine, and build through inspired learning, making, testing, performing, and doing. Take a virtual tour of the SHED
World-class facilities that bring together RIT’s academic strengths in game design and development, film and animation, and digital media, with a focus on commercialization that provides Hollywood-scale virtual production experiences for students and clients. Explore how companies and students leverage RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute (GCI)
A nexus of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence research and education. ESL GCI offers students, researchers and industry access to cutting-edge technology and multidisciplinary talent and knowledge for research, penetration testing, and professional cybersecurity services. Take a tour of GCI
The RIT Genomics Lab provides next-generation DNA sequencing capabilities for both classes and departmental research in RIT’s College of Science and College of Health Sciences and Technology. The facility features an Illumina Miseq, a platform capable of generating sequence data from small genomes, as well as community analyses of bacteria. Tour the place where biology meets technology
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