News by Topic: Interdisciplinary Studies

Award-winning comics artists will discuss their art, characters, and publishing careers during an exhibit opening and book-signing event at RIT.

As it heads into its 75th year in 2026, Reporter has added frequent news updates online between its monthly print publication, is seeing an interest in students wanting to join the staff, and is again winning awards for its work.

Today’s audio devices are sophisticated, but some underperform in noisy or distracting environments. To address these challenges, Hwan Shim and his research group developed a prototype headset to provide neurofeedback information.

A year ago, four engineering technology students were taking the class Foundation of Metals that included a brief training program on how welding is used in manufacturing. They knew they wanted more and a student chapter of the American Welding Society was born.

RIT will become a destination not just for students but for ideas, Bill Sanders said as part of formal ceremonies to install him as RIT’s 11th president. RIT community members, delegates from 42 universities, and state and community leaders attended the tradition-filled ceremony on Sept. 26.

The creation of five new endowed professorships, together valued at $15 million, was announced Sept. 26 during the inauguration of the university’s 11th president, Bill Sanders.

RIT’s Gap Year Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program supports students who explore entrepreneurial ideas while earning a college degree.

A Rochester and Finger Lakes region coalition that includes researchers from RIT has been named a finalist for the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program.

What started as a concept for the School of Design’s annual T-Minus challenge has made a splash at Autodesk University 2025. The Autodesk MultiMeasure was the Factory Experience product chosen for the global software and technology company’s annual conference.

Satellites, planes, drones, canoes, and more were deployed at RIT’s Tait Preserve for ROCX 2025, an open-community, major data-collection experiment.

The field station will be open and available to all departments across the RIT community and allow for researchers to remain on-site instead of having to always move research materials between the preserve and the main campus.

The new MAGIC Spell grants, earmarked for digital media projects in art, games, interactivity, and creativity, provide RIT researchers in any college with funding up to $5,000 to help in their pursuits to secure additional external grants in their fields.