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.

  • March 21, 2017

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    New seminar series on artificial intelligence

    RIT has a growing artificial intelligence (AI) community, and a new seminar series has been developed to strengthen interactions among researchers from across campus involved in the growing technology field.
  • March 21, 2017

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    Video game design programs jump in 2017 rankings

    RIT is one of the top schools in the world to study game design and launch games for 2017, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game design and development program was ranked second at the undergraduate level and fourth at the graduate level.
  • March 20, 2017

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    RIT wins regional cyber defense competition

    A team of RIT cybersecurity students is heading to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition after taking first place at the regional competition March 17–19.
  • March 10, 2017

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    Companies with RIT ties get $1M from state

    Four early-stage companies launched at RIT have received more than $1 million through New York state’s Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise Investment Fund.
  • March 9, 2017

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    RIT to host statewide Game Dev Challenge kickoff

    RIT’s MAGIC Center will host the kickoff for its first-ever New York State Game Dev Challenge on Friday. The challenge is an opportunity for students and indie developers to bring their game ideas to production.
  • March 7, 2017

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    NTID professor first U.S. scientist in EACH program

    Todd Pagano, professor of chemistry and associate dean for Teaching and Scholarship Excellence at NTID, was the first faculty member from RIT—and the first U.S. scientist—to participate in the Excellence in Analytical CHemistry (EACH) program.
  • March 6, 2017

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    NTID to offer degree in 3-D graphics technology

    NTID has been granted approval by the New York State Education Department to establish a new degree program in 3-D graphics technology. Beginning this fall, RIT/NTID will become the first college to offer this kind of associate degree program to deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
  • March 3, 2017

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    AMPrint, imaging science centers receive grants

    RIT’s AMPrint Center and Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science received grants from FuzeHub, the statewide New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program center, to purchase equipment for use in center laboratories focused on advanced manufacturing research and new product development.
  • March 1, 2017

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    Student enters game into Intel Showcase at GDC

    John Miller, a third-year game design and development student, debuts his game Gibraltar in front of students and faculty from the nation’s top gaming schools at the highly anticipated Intel University Games Showcase at the 2017 Game Developers Conference.
  • February 27, 2017

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    RIT joins Grand Challenge Scholars Program

    RIT is the newest university to be designated as part of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, a national initiative to train future engineering and non-engineering professionals to play a significant role in solving the major challenges of the 21st century.
  • February 27, 2017

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    Game makers put to the test at GDC

    Hundreds of game developers and designers from around the world come to the Prototype/Playtest Night, hosted by RIT, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco hoping to have their games torn apart.