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Frank Romano, world-renowned printing expert and RIT professor emeritus is the scheduled keynote speaker at Eastman Kodak Company's first-ever “Taking Print Further,” a two-day event revolving around today’s print market trends and the future of the industry. Additionally, a photobook produced by RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences professor and visual media chair Frank Cost’s Aerial Photography course will be distributed.

RIT's Big Shot photography team partnered with the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee to create a unique photo of the Frederick Douglass monument in Rochester’s Highland Park using the Big Shot’s “painting with light” technique.

Token, an identity technology start-up founded by RIT alumni Melanie and Steve Shapiro, will receive up to $1.75 million through the New York State Innovation Venture Capital Fund.

The role of photography in the digital era has transformed medical photography and profoundly influenced medical education. RIT's Gallery r hosted an exhibition featuring photographs from the operating rooms at Rochester General Hospital (RGH) that were taken by students enrolled in RIT's Surgical Photography course throughout its existence.

 

RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences hosted a group of  Rochester Prep High School students. Fifteen students in the local charter school’s photography club learned about darkroom processes and producing high-quality photo prints. 

RIT's Image Permanence Institute has received $544,198 in grants from the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities to support two major education and research initiatives.

Last February, the ceramics program in RIT's School for American Crafts hosted Bryan Czibesz for a three-day workshop during which students and College of Imaging Arts and Sciences faculty worked with the visiting artist to create a 3D printer from scratch.

 

 

Wendell Castle, treasured Artist in Residence at RIT and widely recognized as the 'father of the art furniture movement,' died in his Scottsville, N.Y., home on Jan. 20. He was 85 years old.

Discouraged by an underrepresentation of minority characters in 3D-animated works, two School of Film and Animation faculty launched the Character Mosaic Project. The initiative aims to build a library of ethnically diverse, well-built characters that are free of charge to independent animators/filmmakers and students around the globe.