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  • April 23, 2025

    a man in a brown sweater stands in a bright multicolored room holding a laptop.

    Grad’s job is all fun and games

    Rohit Crasta, who was among the second cohort of game design and development program graduates in 2013, is lead game designer for The New York Times, helping to create digital puzzles that have quickly become conversation starters in break rooms and on social media.

  • April 22, 2025

    a woman stands in a greenhouse at R I T with plants and planters of various sizes surrounding her.

    Ph.D. student channels her resilience into solutions

    Katie Malarkey's research, funded by a $15 million National Science Foundation grant, provides a comprehensive quantification of plastics used annually in U.S. agriculture. Her work aims to address the end-of-life challenges for these materials.

  • April 21, 2025

    three adults huddle close together holding figurines used to make a stop motion animated film in an art studio setting.

    Earnest approach to animation leads to success for alumni trio

    Friendships formed at RIT helped lay the foundation for Apartment D, an alumni-owned indie stop-motion animation studio. Apartment D specializes in content that packs a visual punch and evokes the unbridled joy of watching Saturday morning cartoons.

  • April 18, 2025

    A woman uses a computer in a lab while a man points at her screen.

    Imagine RIT will have artificial intelligence around every turn

    If festivalgoers have trouble exploring the more than 430 exhibits at this year’s Imagine RIT, they can now enlist the help of AI by using the Imagine RIT Bot—a generative AI chatbot that’s like ChatGPT with a focus on answering questions about the Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival.

  • April 18, 2025

    A group of ten people pose in a park under sunny skies, with city buildings in the background.

    Tigers take on New York City through a new study-away program

    This is the first semester RIT in NYC was offered, and nine students jumped at the opportunity to gain work experience through internships, take in-person classes tailored to the program, and enjoy excursions around one of the largest creative industry landscapes on the East Coast.

  • April 18, 2025

    Dave Munson and Nancy Munson, dressed in blue gingham suits, walk down a sunny pathway with other adults dressed in Wizard of Oz costumes.

    That’s a wrap! Munson’s movies mark an RIT era

    RIT’s 10th president will be remembered for many things after he retires June 30—construction of the SHED, completion of the 2025 Strategic Plan, creation of the Performing Arts Scholarship program. But a key piece of David Munson’s legacy is the six playful and sometimes wacky videos that welcomed students each year to RIT.

  • April 17, 2025

    a woman in a cream sweater and black jeans stands in front of shelves displaying assorted sodas.

    Alumna brews success at Keurig Dr Pepper

    Anna Valentine ’17 (packaging science) is acquiring a rich package of skills as a principal scientist on the Research and Development Breakthrough Development team at Keurig Dr Pepper.