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April 17, 2019
Imagine RIT Preview: Virtual Bugs
When the Seneca Park Zoo Society needed a way to create detailed 3D computer models of rare insects from Madagascar, they turned to RIT’s imaging science program for help. A multidisciplinary team of first-year students designed and built a new system to tackle the problem and will showcase the final product at the Imagine RIT festival.
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April 17, 2019
Earth Day feature: Painting a picture of a planet in peril
City Newspaper features photography professor Denis Defibaugh.
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April 17, 2019
RIT Tiger snaps Tiger’s roar after historic win
Tiger Woods captured his fifth Masters championship on Sunday, and Jason Getz ’98 (photojournalism) captured the image of a lifetime.
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April 15, 2019
First-ever ‘futurists’ symposium features alumni trailblazers at Imagine RIT
“The Future of Technology, the Arts and Design,” a futurists symposium, takes place at 11 a.m. April 27 during Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival. Four RIT alumni will share their visions of the future as it relates to RIT’s core disciplines.
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April 12, 2019
Alumni tour Iceland by design
Professor Josh Owen led an eight-day design-centric tour of Iceland during its biggest design festival called DesignMarch. The group of 17 went on design-focused tours of Reykjavík, met with local designers and attended design presentations and workshops.
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April 11, 2019
RIT honors three as inaugural class of Distinguished Faculty
RIT announced John Klofas, Bruce Smith and Josh Owen as its first class of Distinguished Faculty, leaders who have provided insights and solutions to today’s criminal justice issues, produced groundbreaking work in nanolithography and developed exciting industrial design innovations.
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April 10, 2019
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection hosts exhibit and celebration of the RIT Albers Murals
The RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection today will host a tribute to the artist who painted RIT’s iconic orange-and-yellow murals, paintings that hold historical significance to the art world and the campus.
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April 10, 2019
McDonald's rejected designs from the '70s could have completely changed the way the fast-food chain looks today
Insider features The Vignelli Center for Design Studies' digitizing project of design firm Unimark International's revamp of McDonald's packaging and signage.
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April 8, 2019
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April 7, 2019
RIT alumnus behind iconic baseball photo
Ron Sherman ’64 (photography) can tell you exactly what he was doing on April 8, 1974. And now so can baseball fans. Sherman was at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium with more than 100 photographers capturing the moment Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old Major League record.
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April 5, 2019
Film and animation MFA student wins Wacom contest
Based on quality of work, Ting Chu won a Wacom Cintiq Pro in a contest entered by more than 70 College of Art and Design students.
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April 5, 2019
How to Photograph Flowers Splashing in Milk with an Infrared Laser
Blog post by Ted Kinsman, an assistant professor of photographic technology, published in PetaPixel.