Photography, Film, and Animation News

RIT researchers value citizen science, where making data available to everyone not only accelerates research but also fosters education, trust in science, and worldwide collaboration.

The DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Research Internships in Science and Engineering provide fully funded summer opportunities in Germany for RIT undergraduate students to gain practical research experience.

RIT faculty members are tackling some of AI’s most pressing challenges with support from the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award program, which recognizes early-career scholars who integrate cutting-edge research with student education.

When Juan Hernandez-Guerrero's '26 seven-year Army service concluded, like many veterans, he searched for ways to “clear my head and find some peace.” He found serenity in photography, and he's showing fellow veterans how it helped him. 

A rewarding co-op experience, coupled with a laser-focused ambition while studying in RIT's one-of-a-kind photographic sciences program, led to a full-time position after graduation for Melanie Ng '26. 

Louisa Duchin '26 MFA (film and animation) has been a licensed practical nurse, worked in theater production management, and tried her hand at being a psychic, librarian, clown, and standup comic. But to her, nothing compares to being a filmmaker, a title she is using to blend her life experiences into stories that have been recognized at film festivals around the country.

WHEC-TV highlights Tom Brenner '16 (photojournalism), who captured widely circulated photos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secret Service agents, and includes comments from William Snyder, professor of photographic arts and sciences.

RIT’s School of Film and Animation has been continuously recognized as being among the best film and animation schools in the country. The latest recognition comes from Variety magazine’s 2026 Education Impact Report.

WHEC-TV speaks to RIT alumni Paul Reichert and Katrina Willoughby, along with Christye Sisson, director and Gannett Chair for the photographic arts and sciences program, about training Artemis II astronauts to capture space imagery during the lunar mission.

First-year imaging science and motion picture science students receive immediate hands-on, collaborative experiences as they start their college careers through the Freshman Imaging Project.

The four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission are well equipped to document their journey around the moon because of training from Katrina Willoughby ’04 and Paul Reichert ’01. The flight operations imagery instructors gave the astronauts training for about two years before the launch on April 1.

Scientific American speaks to Benjamin Chin, assistant professor of imaging science, about new research showing how the human eye determines which color to focus on, with implications for vision science and virtual reality.