Casey Jabbour, a 2013 Media Arts and Technology graduate, had always dreamed of working for Conde Nast, a magazine publishing and media company. The first time Jabbour laid eyes on the tablet version of Wired magazine in the Magazine Publishing class, she knew she wanted to work in the digital publishing industry. After that class, she began researching Conde Nast, Wired magazine’s publisher. Two things that stood out to her were the magazine publisher’s diverse portfolio and the interactive components of their magazines’ tablet versions. She put the company at the top of her future job list....Continue reading

On September 6 at 9:15 pm, thousands of RIT students, faculty, alumni, and families of the Rochester area gathered on campus to take part in the thirtieth RIT Big Shot. These volunteers created a photograph using handheld flashlights to light up the Golisano Institute for Sustainability Building and the Louise M. Slaughter Building and Quad. Having lived in Rochester for only a year, I knew little about the project and was curious to find out what it was all about. I decided to do some reading about past projects and I found out some very interesting facts:....Continue reading

On Saturday May 3rd drew 35,000 visitors to RIT for the Imagine RIT 2014 festival.  Despite weather concerns, turn out was high and about 400 projects were on display. Two of those projects were put on by Connect and the results were outstanding. PawPrint, an automated personalized story book web-application, was in it’s second year of being presented and we produced 671 ....Continue reading

On Wednesday, October 1st, RIT will be hosting over 240 companies at the Career Fair! The Career Fair is a great way to network and create opportunities for future internships, co-ops, and jobs. If you’re new to RIT....Continue reading