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New Media Design BFA

Student strategized how to raise the profile of Washington Grove for the School of Design's annual EUREKA! workshop, an initiative in which students use design-thinking strategies to solve community challenges.

In response to the pandemic, Katie Hobler '22 (New Media Design) co-organized a book drive for local children, which inspired other work aimed at informing and educating about disadvantages faced by low socioeconomic students.

A new option for co-op experiences at nonprofits is part of a pilot program being developed by a College of Art and Design faculty member. Professor Susan Lakin said the aim of the program is to both fill a need at nonprofits for digitally fluent staff and to provide an important experience for students interested in working closely with community organizations.

RIT's Schools of Art, American Crafts, Film and Animation, and Photographic Arts and Sciences are all under new leadership.

Designers from various College of Art and Design programs, as well as RIT developers, created projects that were recognized in the biennial MODE Fest.

Two video games affiliated with RIT won awards at the 2021 Game Developers Conference virtual event in July.

Four RIT designers completed a NASA internship in which they produced creative works in support of an upcoming mission to reach an asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

While she’ll look back on the pandemic as a most challenging time, graduating new media design student Stephanie Liu also takes pride in knowing how well she rose to the occasion. At the culmination of her internship with Amazon Web Services, the Chicago native was offered a full-time position as a user experience (UX) designer, starting in July.

Isabelle Anderson '22 (New Media Design) has immersed herself in the world of VR, using the technology as a tool to provide education on important initiatives.

RIT has an understated new name for a high-tech complex that will soon centralize the university’s makerspace and performing arts. RIT announced on Friday that the facility currently under construction will officially be called the Student Hall for Exploration and Development, or simply “the SHED.”

After graduating this spring, Will McCloskey '21 (New Media Design) starts a full-time job with Instrument, the creative agency he completed a co-op with last summer.

An image showing a tiger emerging from an ocean of pandemic, climbing toward a ray of light, has been selected as this year’s poster for the Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival. The poster was designed by Luke Chen, a second-year new media design major.