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One highlight of the RIT-Rochester Prep High School Partnership is the annual capstone showcase that spotlights student-professor collaborations. Their diverse projects in photojournalism, antibiotic resistance, 3D printing and fabrication, and chemical engineering gave the students experience on a college campus and the confidence of completing undergraduate-level material.

Spectrum News talks to Jenn Poggi, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, about an exhibit at RIT’s City Art Space of work by photojournalist David Butow.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Jenn Poggi, assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. Poggi will lead a free, public conversation with photojournalist David Butow at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, in RIT City Art Space.

C. Rose Smith, an MFA candidate in RIT's Photography and Related Media program, is immersing themself in various photographic process through their graduate studies and work experiences at the nearby George Eastman Museum and RIT's Image Permanence Institute.

The extensive renovation of RIT’s College of Art and Design—with keen focuses on key areas within the internationally recognized School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) and School of Film and Animation—made significant strides in 2021.

Yahoo News features a story by the Press-Republican on Professor Emeritus Denis Defibaugh.

Jackson Glozer '22 spent the fall 2021 semester on co-op with the electric vehicle company — the latest in a long line of full-time work experiences Photographic Sciences students have with industry titans. 

Ben Braun, a fourth-year photojournalism major from Needham, Mass., won silver for Multimedia: Individual Story in this year’s prestigious College Photographer of the Year competition.

A solo exhibition of photographs and video by David Butow, whose new book, Brink, chronicles politics in the United States from the 2016 presidential election through the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, is coming to RIT’s City Art Space.

The story of 2021—told visually in the top images of the year chosen by photo editors at TIME and The New York Times—has multiple connections to RIT’s nationally recognized School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.

Equipped with newly-developed professional skills and materials, students from Ceramics, Fine Art Photography and Metals and Jewelry gained insightful feedback on their work from 11 artists to wrap up the fall semester.

The sixth annual event featured presentations on the latest virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies that are driving various fields, from health care to theater to education.