Ringling College to host 3-day VR and Healthcare Hackathon
Ringling College of Art and Design will host the first Virtual Reality Healthcare Hackathon Invitational next year, from Feb. 9 at 6 pm to Feb. 11 at 3 pm. The College will be joined by 25 universities, each represented by teams of three students from both undergraduate and graduate schools. Twenty-five developers and healthcare practitioners […]
An evening with Evelyn Miralles, Former Chief NASA Engineer and VR Specialist
Join us at 7pm, on Friday, October 13, 2023, at the Morganroth Auditorium, as Ringling College of Art and Design presents an evening with Evelyn Miralles. Miralles is NASA’s former chief engineer for the Virtual Reality Lab at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Throughout her 27-year career at NASA she garnered multiple awards, […]
Virtual Reality students take over virtual lobby at global SIGGRAPH conference
Aug. 6-10, 2023, SIGGRAPH will hold its 50th conference celebration of the annual event held for computer graphics and interactive techniques, worldwide. This year’s conference will be held in Los Angeles, with recent conferences pivoting between LA, Vancouver, and Anaheim. The acronym stands for “Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques” and each […]
2023 Rookie Awards announced, Ringling students win top awards
Now in its 13th year, the Rookies Awards are an annual competition hosted by the Rookies community, founded in 2010. They offer an online platform for non-professional digital artists to share their work and help launch their professional careers in the fields of film, games, animation, immersive media, archviz, motion graphics, product design, and other […]
Four majors showcased at national student business leaders conference in Atlanta
Last month, Ringling College of Art and Design faculty and staff attended the Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference in Atlanta. About 12,000 middle and high school students and 2,000 career and technical education teachers from across the U.S. attended the conference that took place from June 28-30, 2023. The mission of the […]
Students make valuable industry connections at national Game Developers Conference
A group of Ringling College students and faculty members traveled to San Francisco in March to attend the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC) Showcase. Thirty-seven students and five faculty from the Game Art, Virtual Reality Development, and Visual Studies departments attended the annual conference for game developers. The conference hosted lectures, panels, and roundtable discussions, […]
Virtual Reality faculty Ana Carolina Pereira emboldens students to find success
Since coming to Ringling College in 2020, Ana Carolina Pereira has made quite an impression on her students and colleagues – and across the video game industry. The Brazilian-born Pereira teaches in the College’s Virtual Reality Development and Game Art programs, in addition to her prolific work in the video game industry. Before her career […]