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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.

Scientists from RIT and Cornell University have teamed up to explore cartilage tissue’s unique properties with the hopes of improving osteoarthritis diagnosis and treatment. The team published a new paper in Science Advances outlining their findings.

Drawn to RIT for its unique focus on technology, art, and design, Lindsay ’09 and Andy Mindler ’09 saw new media design as the perfect blend of 3D, motion, and code to fuel their diverse design interests. The couple started dating at RIT in 2007 and married in 2011. Since moving to the West Coast, they have carved out successful design careers, joining an ever-growing throng of new media and other RIT design alumni living and working in the Bay Area.

Industrial Design students and faculty, in collaboration with RIT Libraries, designed the Hexacart, a library-on-wheels that brings rich visual resources to the doorstep of College of Art and Design students, faculty and staff.

WHEC-TV talks to André Hudson, professor and head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about his antibiotics research.

The Hammer Family Packaging and Graphic Media Center will consist of several laboratories focused on materials testing, distribution, digital processing, and workflow analysis for packaging and commercial printing. 

RIT earned a spot on the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers 2022. This award is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the statistics portal and industry ranking provider.

WROC-TV talks to Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, about changes in the prices of goods and world geopolitics.

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.

Two outdoor sculptures are adorning RIT’s campus this academic year, with more on the way. Works by artists Joshua Enck and Letha Wilson have revived an outdoor sculpture initiative that is part of the School of Art’s Anna Ballarian Visiting Artist Series.

Scientific American talks to Justin Pelletier, director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center, about cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns.

WHEC-TV talks to Robert Ulin, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, about child labor used on cocoa farms.