News by Topic: Creativity And Innovation
Breaking barriers is a specialty at RIT. Our students, staff, and faculty are always at the forefront, developing innovative technical solutions to today’s problems.
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March 20, 2025
![Kwaku Alston, smiling in a black cap and glasses, is honored as the 2024-2025 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in a graphic with bold orange text and accents.]()
Kwaku Alston named Outstanding Alumnus
Kwaku Alston ’94 (photography) has been named RIT’s Outstanding Alumnus for 2024-2025. Established by the Office of the President in 1952, it is the highest honor RIT can bestow upon a graduate.
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March 18, 2025
![miling teacher in an orange shirt engages with a group of diverse young students around a table with small wind turbines, plants, and a spray bottle in a bright classroom]()
Pollution Prevention Institute at RIT accepting Community Grants Program project applications
The program, founded in 2008, is part of the NYSP2I’s ongoing efforts to make the state more sustainable for workers, the public, the environment, and the economy through pollution prevention.
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March 18, 2025
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Entrepreneur, scientist, engineer Astro Teller is RIT’s Academic Convocation keynote speaker
Teller, who is widely recognized for his leadership in technological innovation, oversees X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory designed to help tackle the world’s most difficult problems with bold solutions. Academic Convocation is on May 9.
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March 3, 2025
![Smiling woman with long blonde hair and glasses holds a poster for 'Imagine RIT,' featuring a circuit board design with glowing orange text. She stands against an orange-toned background.]()
Circuit board campus wins this year’s Imagine RIT poster contest
Third-year illustration major Ava Guarino started working on her submission for the poster contest not long after last year’s festival ended. Some 7,800 votes were cast, and Guarino’s poster was one of the top vote-getters to make the finals. Imagine RIT is April 26.
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March 3, 2025
![Book cover for 'Thinking Made Visible: Movement, Narrative, and the Work of Saul Bass' by Jacob A. Dickerson. The left side has a black background with the title in bold white and red text, while the right side features a black-and-white photograph of Saul Bass smiling and gesturing. The cover includes design elements in blue and green.]()
Saul Bass’ iconic graphic designs are the focus of a new RIT Press book
Bass’ work ranges from the iconic movie poster and title sequences of the 1955 film noir, The Man with the Golden Arm, to familiar corporate logos for the Girl Scouts, United Way, Special Olympics, Exxon, AT&T, and more.
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February 27, 2025
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New executive director named for RIT Certified
Rosalie Clemens, formerly vice president of Workforce Development and Community Engagement for AmeriCOM, has been named executive director of RIT Certified.
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February 26, 2025
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Sculptor Albert Paley gives personal archive to RIT
The Albert Paley Collection in the RIT Archives preserves the legacy of a celebrated working artist, entrepreneur, and educator. Paley is known around the world for his large-scale municipal works, sculptures, gates, architectural pieces, furniture design, and decorative arts.
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February 25, 2025
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Ricky Figueroa honored as the inaugural John Traver Endowed Professor
An electrical engineer turned creative technologist, Ricky Figueroa is invigorated by working at the intersection of technology, the arts, and design. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research has led to success for both Figueroa and the students who pass through his classroom.
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February 19, 2025
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RIT app on Steam brings 19th-century printing to life
RIT students are using a new technology to capture an old experience. Their virtual reality app simulates printing on a 19th-century cast iron hand-press that once belonged to British designer William Morris.
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February 17, 2025
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Collaboration between RIT and Griffiss Institute fosters the STEM workforce pipeline
RIT is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to get high school students interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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February 14, 2025
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Graduate student creates educational guide about chemotherapy side effects for Colorado children’s hospital
Cancer-free for nearly 20 years, RIT graduate student Bryona Hamilton seeks to educate patients, survivors, and family members about potential chemotherapy side effects that can occur decades after treatment.
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February 12, 2025
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Interdisciplinary collaborations drive innovation in cultural heritage preservation
RIT’s interdisciplinary collaborations enrich research across the university and beyond. Two of these collaborative projects recently received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of a total $22.6 million in grants given to support humanities projects across the nation.
