Communications and Digital Media News

RIT’s Black Artists & Records Society builds community and opportunity for student creatives through live events and creative collaboration.

Using their knowledge from classroom instruction, NTID information and computing studies students built equipment and applied for funding, culminating in the launch of five state-of-the-art, deaf-friendly point-of-sale systems that use interactive monitors for easy ordering and delivery of food and beverages.

An essay by Kate Young, third-year ASL Interpreting major, published by Her Campus.

A new study from RIT and Carnegie Mellon University experts is challenging a widely held belief about the media—that local news outlets have become more critical of the police in recent years.

Students developed Spotlight Creators, a startup meant to filter out ubiquitous, trend-chasing social media content in favor of original artwork. The goal of the site's co-founders is to create a welcoming online community for creatives to share more authentic work.

The inaugural Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies symposium, hosted on March 28, will feature original work by individuals from across the RIT community.

Chad Cooper '19 MFA (visual communication design) is a senior product designer - design systems for Spotify, where he helps deliver the audio streaming platform’s visual look and feel for more than 600 million users.

Natalie Crowell and Olivia Croteau, both third-year humanities, computing, and design majors, are developing an AI tool that analyzes publicly available social media data, specifically from chat groups where refugees discuss needs related to housing, food, and other resources.

Associate Professor Meredith Davenport’s personal memoir history project, recognized by The Aftermath Project, is a tapestry of historical research, photography, poetry, and fine art used to explore her family’s role in enslavement dating back to the late 1700s.

Bass’ work ranges from the iconic movie poster and title sequences of the 1955 film noir, The Man with the Golden Arm, to familiar corporate logos for the Girl Scouts, United Way, Special Olympics, Exxon, AT&T, and more.

Students from various majors across RIT made a website providing wall-to-wall coverage of the 2025 Special Olympics New York Winter Games. This was the fourth year RIT partnered with Special Olympics to document the events.

RIT students are using a new technology to capture an old experience. Their virtual reality app simulates printing on a 19th-century cast iron hand-press that once belonged to British designer William Morris.