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RIT students design dining at Good Luck
For the last several years, RIT’s Industrial Design department has charged its senior year students with a challenging opportunity to collaborate with designers and design houses for its Metaproject. The program creates industry partnerships for students with different established companies, which in the past have included Umbra, Poppin, and Kikkerland. And it allows students the […]
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RIT hosts Game Dev Challenge
College students and indie video game developers wanting to put their ideas to the test will have the chance in a new statewide competition. RIT’s Center for Media Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC), in partnership with New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is hosting a Game Development Challenge, the first for New York […]
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Reddit co-founder: You’ve got to suck to succeed
Reddit started as the project of two college kids with a $12,000 check from an investor. Now, it’s ranked as the eighth-largest website in the United States, co-founder Alexis Ohanian told a crowd at RIT’s Ingle Auditorium last week. The social media site is a sprawling series of discussion boards, ranging from deep debates on […]
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Wendell Castle stays hands-on
While Wendell Castle has incorporated modern technology into making his sculptural furniture, the storied artist still starts with pencil and paper Of all of the studio’s tools, analog or digital, the pencil is still Wendell Castle’s favorite. To him, drawing is discernment. His love for the tactile nature of making marks is palpable; his description […]
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Deaf theater sees growth in Rochester
Spurred on in part by NTID, the deaf theater community, both in Rochester and nationally, has taken off in the last few years.
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RIT exhibits master photocomposer
Polish artist Ryszard Horowitz was creating visions of fantastical realities through photography since before the age of Photoshop. He is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography who developed boundary-stretching analog techniques and was early to incorporate digital technology into his work. An exhibition of Horowitz’s images currently fills RIT’s University Gallery, and showcases […]
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Memorializing a master
Two shows currently on view at RIT galleries explore the work and legacy of the late artist and educator Keith Howard. Hosted in two parts at Bevier Gallery (James E. Booth Hall 7A, RIT Campus, 73 Lomb Memorial Drive) and Gallery r (100 College Avenue), “Flux: Keith Howard and His Legacy” commemorate the life and […]
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Curbing workplace aggression
Talya Meyerowitz recently asked a group of CEO’s and entrepreneurs to think about a personal encounter that made them feel belittled and humiliated. It didn’t matter if the incident had just happened or if it occurred 20 years ago. “Go back to that feeling, whether it was on the school yard or in the board […]
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Gillibrand wants schools to emphasize manufacturing
Historically, the US economy has been built on making things: cars, shoes, satellites, buildings and the steel beams that go into them, and so on. But a massive shift has occurred. Companies shipped assembly lines off shore, and the remaining domestic factories became more automated. But the manufacturing industry still contributes $1.8 trillion to the […]
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Rochester clicks for young professionals
The Rochester region is home to about 20 colleges, universities, and technical schools, which is impressive for a mid-size metro. But despite those offerings, the area’s loss of young professionals continues to concern many business and community leaders in Upstate New York. A Brookings Institute report on education, which is based on data from 2007 […]
