News by Topic: Interdisciplinary Studies

Meet Matt Nygren, a fifth-year mechanical engineering dual-degree student who worked with three other mechanical engineering students to recreate a piece of 16th century technology: Ramelli’s Rotating Reader.

Site preparation is underway for RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute, a new wing of the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences that will help the university become a nexus of cybersecurity education and research.

The interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree program in supply chain management, which launched this fall, focuses on the coordination of processes required within a business, as well as across businesses and suppliers, to deliver products and services efficiently.

Meet Austin Ford, a fourth-year game design and development student who is working as an FPI software engineer at RIT’s Center for Detectors.

RIT students this week are learning first-hand what it’s like to be a syndicated cartoonist, with Leigh Rubin, the creator of Rubes, as cartoonist-in-residence.

RIT’s “Packin’ Heat” student team was a spicy favorite at the 2018 Paperboard Packaging Student Design Challenge. The group of undergraduates took first place among 58 collegiate teams in the national design competition.

The interdisciplinary team of RIT faculty and student researchers, designers and developers that created the Lost & Found tabletop game is getting recognition for its design. Throughout the year, the game has been featured at several showcases for independent and serious games.

Tours and hands-on experiences were the order of the day as RIT formally opened the newest building on campus—the 52,000-square-foot MAGIC Spell Studios. The RIT community is invited to an open house until 3 p.m. today.

“Applied Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking to Making” will explore how artists and designers can use applied critical thinking in the creative process.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 1: Our debut episode features a conversation between Eugene Fram, professor emeritus from Saunders College of Business, and Chris Jackson, associate dean of the College of Art and Design. The two discuss how they came to value the importance of critical thinking and the role it plays in education, business, design and everyday life.

Carol Tyler is visiting RIT to talk about being a cartoonist and her memoir, FAB4 Mania: A Beatles Obsession and the Concert of a Lifetime.

Syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin, the creator of Rubes, has been named the first cartoonist-in-residence at Rochester Institute of Technology and will meet with students in RIT’s College of Art and Design, School of Individualized Studies and College of Liberal Arts.