News

  • January 10, 2017

    Person posing for camera in hallway

    Alumnus to receive Academy Award
    Brian Cantwell ’99 (film and animation) is a member of the team at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) that will be recognized for its design and development of ILM’s facial performance-capture solving system.

  • November 21, 2016

    People gathered around computers

    Graduate’s company wins Apple Design Award
    After graduating from RIT, John Traver ’10 began working for a post-production company and soon became frustrated with video collaboration offerings for the creative industry. So he and the post-production company’s owner set out to build a better solution.

  • November 21, 2016

    Scientist posing in laboratory

    Ph.D. in microsystems engineering—Archana Devasia
    Devasia is a research associate with NASA’s Center for Research in Space Science and Technology (CREST) and is part of the team developing custom detectors that span the entire electromagnetic spectrum for astrophysics applications.

  • November 21, 2016

    Professor explaining project

    Alumnus designs new RIT Alumni House
    Architect Gian-Paul Piane ’07 (woodworking and furniture design) is in charge of designing RIT’s new Alumni House, which will open in 2017.

  • November 16, 2016

    Two people posing for camera

    Researchers fix Landsat 8 imagery, measurements
    Software developed by Aaron Gerace and Matt Montanaro, senior scientists at RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, improves the accuracy of NASA’s Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite, which was giving inaccurate readings due to defective optics in the thermal infrared sensor.

  • November 4, 2016

    Two portraits side by side wearing paper dress

    Student designs dress out of paper
    Meet Heather Williams, a third-year medical illustration major who designed and created an 18th century French court gown made out of paper for the CIAS Foundations Beaux Arts Ball.

  • October 10, 2016

    A student presents about her product design.

    Metaproject connects RIT students to industry
    RIT’s Metaproject—marking its seventh iteration this academic year—has regularly demonstrated that education partnered with industry is a successful vehicle for fostering innovative thinking and thoughtful product design.

  • October 5, 2016

    RIT gets $1M grant to develop food waste solutions
    Callie Babbitt, an associate professor in RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has received a nearly $1 million award from the National Science Foundation to research sustainable solutions for minimizing and managing food waste generated across the food supply chain.

  • September 21, 2016

    A glass pumpkin.

    Glass pumpkin sale set for Oct. 1
    The glass program in the School for American Crafts is hosting its annual Glass Pumpkin Patch fundraiser, featuring hand-blown glass pumpkins and gourds, at the Gene Polisseni Center.