News by Topic: Creativity And Innovation

RIT’s Black Artists & Records Society builds community and opportunity for student creatives through live events and creative collaboration.

For his final capstone project, Snyder, a Rochester Native, directed a short film called Turn Table. The film spins a tale of a young man with Down syndrome who goes into a record store to find an album but keeps getting pulled in many directions by different people who don’t quite understand him.

The initiative has resulted in state-of-the-art, deaf-friendly point-of-sale systems that use interactive monitors for easy ordering and delivery of food and beverages.

The new space is steps away from the recently renovated Strong National Museum of Play, along with neighboring residences, restaurants, and live music venues.

RIT ranked 69th overall in the nation for the best graduate engineering school based on statistical indicators that measure the quality of faculty, research, and students. The programs rose four spots from last year.

Lia Grammer and Julia Carreras found that juggling the logistics of a major student conference in the middle of a busy academic season is proving to be both exciting and challenging.

Graduate students Olivia Towne and Meghan Taylor gave back to the RIT community with their graduate research projects, which focused on the nutritional needs of student athletes and the challenges facing people with food allergies.

The annual awards are presented to staff members who exemplify outstanding service and dedication to the university and who exhibit a high degree of personal ethics and integrity, while consistently demonstrating a strong commitment to student success.

The computer engineering undergraduate has been focused on building workforce development security tools with Michael Zuzak, assistant professor, to develop workforce development security tools to help students prevent online exploits.

Global business management student Kelsey Pinkowski and racing icon Danica Patrick now have something in common. They both won the prestigious Gorsline Scholarship, which honors outstanding up-and-coming drivers in the racing community.

A portrait taken by photography alumnus Kwaku Alston ’94 inspired the United States Postal Service’s new Betty White Commemorative Forever Stamp. The stamp will be available to buy on March 27.

RIT students enrolled in a global public health class spent a weeklong field trip in the Dominican Republic examining healthcare and emergency services.