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Michelle Magee ’05 MS, senior associate director for Employment Engagement in the Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education; Hamad Ghazle ’88, director of the diagnostic medical sonography program; Kerry Hughes ’03 MS, project and events manager for the Office of the Provost; and David Long ’16 Ph.D., director of RIT MAGIC Center, and were honored with the Golden Brick Award for going above and beyond their duties to volunteer or serve in leadership roles at RIT.

According to GradReports.com, RIT offers the top graphic design program in the country based on graduates' earning potential.

Renowned filmmaker Gary Hustwit spent a day in 2013 photographing Massimo and Lella Vignelli. Now, a selection of images from the project are on view through April 15 in the Vignelli Center.

GradReports.com listed RIT in the top 10 of its alumni salary-based ranking of best film production programs in the country.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine highlights the “Images from Science 3” (IFS 3) exhibition, produced by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor Norman Barker and RIT professors Michael Peres, Bob Rose, Chris Jackson and Ted Kinsman.

United States Artists honored Wendy Maruyama '80 MFA (woodworking and furniture design) with the United States Artists Fellowship award in the category of Craft.

Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design R. Roger Remington will deliver the 2020 commencement address at RIT's partnering school in Germany.

Jennifer Whitlock is a panelist at the March 11 Archives by Design Symposium in New York City.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 31: A multidisciplinary contingent from RIT is creating design solutions to improve the quality of medical care and education in Central America. Mary Golden, interior design program chair and director of RIT Hope for Honduras, speaks with Christian Perry, a healthcare designer and co-founder of Little Angels of Honduras, about important initiatives to help reduce infant mortality in that region.

R. Roger Remington, RIT’s Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design, has been asked to write a chapter in the new World History of Design volumes.

Contemporary Greenland is the subject of a new collection of photographs and essays by RIT photography professor Denis Defibaugh, who spent more than a year on the island. North by Nuuk: Greenland after Rockwell Kent, published by RIT Press, documents scenes from daily life and from nature, such as an Inuit hunter and his sled dogs, stark landscapes and portraits of the people who live in remote communities.

Powered by a game engine, Animation students Maggie Dybas and Allison Larkin created "Tumble," which won an award over professional competition at the Infinity Festival.