News by Topic: Creativity And Innovation

At the GDC (Game Developers Conference) Festival of Gaming in San Franciso, PC Gamer interviewed RIT students who created the alternative controller interactive experience Don’t Run With Scissors.

At the GDC (Game Developers Conference) Festival of Gaming in San Franciso, PC Gamer interviewed RIT students who created a giant toothbrushing interactive experience called Floss Boss.

In addition to presenting the keynote address to graduates on May 8, Mae Jemison will also receive an Honorary Doctor of Science degree.

When Don Pettit, NASA’s most senior astronaut, sought a way to accurately capture his view from the International Space Station, alumnus Peter Blacksberg connected him with Ted Kinsman, associate professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.

RIT has launched a new decade-long strategic framework that will guide the university’s priorities, investments, inspiration, and aspirations through 2035.

After Lily Roberts, president of the Theme Park Enthusiasts club, completed a co-op last year at Universal's Epic Universe in Orlando, she accepted another with Universal’s Global Attractions Program, overseeing the redevelopment and refurbishment of attractions.

As part of a collaborative capstone project, students from new media design and new media interactive development are creating interactive experiences with alternative controllers. Three of the projects will be exhibited at the Game Developers Conference Festival of Gaming next week.

A 2024 trip to Ghana by RIT faculty is shaping a new United Nations environmental report challenging e-waste assumptions.

designboom spotlights an upcoming exhibition, "Lella and Massimo Vignelli: a language of Clarity," at Triennale Milano. The Milan-based exhibition was organized in collaboration with RIT's Vignelli Center for Design Studies.

Government Technology highlights Grammar Laboratory, a tool developed by Erin Finton, lecturer for RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The tool makes English grammar practice more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Jeff Chen’s analysis of the game In Stars and Time has earned him the Game Developers Conference Game Narrative Review program’s prestigious Gold Prize, which enables him to give a talk and present a poster at the annual event in March.

Nearly 60 RIT students and 20 alumni and faculty members helped document the 2026 Winter Games as part of an ongoing collaboration with Special Olympics New York.