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The fourth annual Global Learning Symposium highlighted RIT students’ study, research and work abroad achievements throughout the academic year.

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.

 

A team of interdisciplinary researchers, designers and developers led by Owen Gottlieb, an assistant professor of interactive games and media at RIT, has produced two first-of-their-kind table-top games that aim to promote and enhance the public understanding of religion and law.

Rochester Institute of Technology students and faculty from various disciplines put their creative problem-solving skills to good use earlier this month. Working collaboratively, they examined challenges faced by client organizations and then presented conceptual solutions to them during a two-day event.

RIT is part of a select group of world-class researchers studying the fact and fiction of imagery in today’s digital culture by developing an algorithmic-based platform that can detect image manipulation.

UNA Smart, touted by developers as an innovative way to brew coffee and tea anywhere and anytime and created by five RIT alumni, was recently named to Brazil’s Top 100 startups list.

Twyla Cummings, who is senior associate dean for graduate studies and faculty research in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, assumes her new role Aug. 1.

Teams focusing on cybersecurity, health care technology, photonics and unmanned aerial vehicle imaging will each receive up to $1 million over five years.

The grant was awarded to a consortium of 162 companies, universities and nonprofits to create the Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronics.

The Image Permanence Institute at RIT received a $399,825 grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Research and Development program.