Rochester Institute of Technology Communications and Digital Media News

RIT photographers captured the pre-game traditions and tailgate experience that have made Bills games a pilgrimage for many NFL fans.

RIT Press has added new titles to its two signature monograph series on comics studies and the Arts and Crafts movement: Romanticism in Comics: Faith, Myth, and Mood and The Splendid Disarray of Beauty: The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks—A study in the Arts and Crafts Community.

During the 15 weeks between spring and fall semester, RIT students are finding ways to embrace new challenges. Some are taking the stage and performing. Others are winning club championships. For many, summer is a time to get work experience and participate in research projects, traveling abroad, and helping others while pursuing their passions.

For years, Joseph Hill, assistant dean of NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention and an associate professor in the Department of ASL and Interpreting Education, has studied how the segregation of southern Black Deaf Americans, along with their history and culture, has impacted the linguistics of today’s Black Deaf youth. Hill hopes his research will continue to uncover and preserve Black American Sign Language.

Eight first-year RIT students have been selected to become the university’s first Disability Leadership Scholars to advocate and to educate about disabilities.

Meet Alexis Mildren, a second-year new media design student from Mardela Springs, Md., and co-captain of RIT’s equestrian team.

The Catholic Courier features Chase Lear, a new media interactive development major.

Dominique Hessert Owens ’17 (photojournalism) spearheaded the visual effects efforts for Good Night Oppy, a true story about an amazing journey by two Mars rovers that is receiving Oscar buzz.

The Today Show features Melissa Keomoungkhoun ’15 (advertising and public relations), ’16 MS (hospitality tourism management) and Victor Montiel ’17 (packaging science) and their experience at the restaurant Tatsu Dallas.

Matthew Breitbart '10, Tom Rieger '74 and Don Williams '82 are core members of the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative, which provides uniform methods that drive the digitization efforts of federal agencies, libraries, archives, museums and institutions around the world.

Rebecca Soderholm ’94 (photojournalism) is documenting the excitement of off-road dirt bike and ATV races through photo­graphy in a body of work titled “Hare Scramble.” Her vision for “Hare Scramble” earned Soderholm a spot as one of the 2022 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows.

RIT is vying to be the first university to develop and have a game character accepted into the wildly popular online game Dota 2. The character, or courier, in the form of a tiger, was developed in MAGIC Spell Studios by a team of former RIT students and a faculty adviser.