News by Topic: Interdisciplinary Studies

At RIT, combining aspects from different fields of study is the best way to make world-changing discoveries and find creative ways to solve problems. RIT encouraged collaboration across academic programs and departments to encourage creative thinking and innovation.

  • October 30, 2018

    Owen Gottlieb talks to three people and demonstrates how the Lost & Found: Order in the Court game works.

    Creators of ‘Lost & Found’ game honored for work

    The interdisciplinary team of RIT faculty and student researchers, designers and developers that created the Lost & Found tabletop game is getting recognition for its design. Throughout the year, the game has been featured at several showcases for independent and serious games.

  • October 30, 2018

    Members of the platform party stand in a line at the front of a presentation and close their movie clap-boards to symbolize the opening of the MAGIC Center.

    RIT opens new MAGIC Spell Studios building

    Tours and hands-on experiences were the order of the day as RIT formally opened the newest building on campus—the 52,000-square-foot MAGIC Spell Studios. The RIT community is invited to an open house until 3 p.m. today.

  • October 18, 2018

    logo for RIT intersections: the RIT podcast.

    Podcast: Critical Thinking 

    Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 1: Our debut episode features a conversation between Eugene Fram, professor emeritus from Saunders College of Business, and Chris Jackson, associate dean of the College of Art and Design. The two discuss how they came to value the importance of critical thinking and the role it plays in education, business, design and everyday life.

  • September 26, 2018

    An artistic rendition of Leigh Rubin, the left half of the image looking to be illustrated while the other half looks like a normal photo. The split between illustration and real-image falls across the middle of Rubin's face.

    ‘Rubes’ creator named RIT’s first cartoonist-in-residence

    Syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin, the creator of Rubes, has been named the first cartoonist-in-residence at Rochester Institute of Technology and will meet with students in RIT’s College of Art and Design, School of Individualized Studies and College of Liberal Arts.

  • September 11, 2018

    Graphic of city of Rochester elements to look like a blocky video game

    MAGIC Center co-sponsors Rochester Game Festival

    Forty tabletop and video game projects created by local college students, faculty and game developers from Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse will be available to play during the second annual Rochester Game Festival on Sept. 15.

  • August 30, 2018

    A woman in a yellow and white jumpsuit stands at a podium in front of a crowd speaking. There is a large projection screen showing a clip of Sesame Street.

    RIT Metaproject is heading to ‘Sesame Street’

    Metaproject 09 is brought to you by the Sesame Workshop and the letters R, I and T. Industrial design students learned today that they will spend the semester designing products for the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street.

  • August 9, 2018

    Ana Sorensen sits in a wheelchair and demonstrates how the LEV lift works for individuals to lift themselves up. She shows this to another woman who is engaged in the demonstration and reaches out to touch the assistive device.

    Students create assistive products for community

    The Studio 930 Design Consultancy program, a 10-week long multidisciplinary studio experience focused on the design and production of access and health technologies products, wrapped up with an exhibition Aug. 7.

  • August 7, 2018

    A 3D printer at work, printing 10 blue, flat, circular objects.

    RIT students learn value of entrepreneurship

    Saunders Summer Startup Program encourages multidisciplinary student teams to jumpstart their ventures in hopes of kick starting real companies. It culminates with Investor Demo Night on Wednesday.

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