Research News

Professor Susan Lakin's career-long commitment to leading collaborative initiatives related to emerging technology in the arts was honored with the Vanguard Award for Outstanding Service from the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru).

RIT's MFA in photography and related media's commitment to sustainable practices includes a "photographic garden" containing plants that students and faculty can use for various photographic processes.

Six faculty are featured in an exhibition in Venice that showcases the College of Art and Design's breadth of creative disciplines through the unification of sculpture, film, photography, and industrial design. 

Emma Herz Thakur ’24 feels fortunate that at RIT she met people who have won major grants, had their work featured in museums, and are connected with scholars from around the world. Now, she is one of them.

Diane Catsburrow Linnet ‘24 MFA (film and animation) has had her films accepted into film festivals around the world, with the latest being one of the circuit's crown jewels.

Emma Herz Thakur '24 (ceramics and illustration) aims to create connections between practicing artisans and museum collections as a Fulbright Scholar working in partnership with French potters and France's Natural Museum of Natural History.

While at RIT, Nathan Irving '24 (motion picture science) developed problem-solving technology for creatives and arcade-style video games with novel mechanics. 

Students leveraged the variety of makerspaces in RIT's brand-new SHED facility to create arts-integrative work responding to a theme of "Play."

To help address the void in research surrounding 3D printing as a tool for display, storage, preservation, conservation, and more, Meredith Noyes received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a research project to inform decision making.

Students who engage with the research collections in RIT’s Vignelli Center for Design Studies can now benefit from studying a comprehensive collection of Swiss posters thanks to a donation from Frederick Jon Burbach. The collection of approximately 350 posters includes the work of 125 of Europe’s finest graphic designers from the past eight decades.

Inspired by her Race, Civil Rights, and Photography class, Athena Lemon '24 curated an exhibition weaving her family photo archives with the work of renowned photojournalist Bernie Boston '55.

The latest Emmy Award captured by Jaclyn Pytlarz '14 (motion picture science) was for her role in developing the latest high-dynamic range (HDR) technology, which generates natural-looking quality on TV screens.