Rochester Institute of Technology has over 145,000 alumni from all 50 U.S. states and over 100 countries.[ 1] This is a list of some notable alumni.
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Kwaku Alston (1994) – celebrity portrait photographer[ 4]
Barbara Astman (1970) – artist, photographer[ 10]
Ralph Avery (1928) – artist[citation needed ]
Paul Benoit (1976) – Feature Pulitzer Prize , Boston Herald in 1979[ 4]
Bernie Boston (1955) – photojournalist, twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize , including his 1967 Flower Power photo
Marilyn Bridges (1979, 1981) – aerial photographer[citation needed ]
Robert F. Bukaty (1982) – Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for feature photography with the Associated Press in 1999[ 11]
Dean Chamberlain (1977) – effect photographer[citation needed ]
Emma Lampert Cooper (1897) – painter[citation needed ]
Jeff Daly – chief designer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [citation needed ]
Bruce Davidson – photographer[citation needed ]
Ken Geiger (1985) – Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for spot news with The Dallas Morning News in 1993[ 4]
Stan Grossfeld (1973) – two-time Pulitzer Prize -winning photojournalist with the Boston Globe in 1984 and 1985[ 4]
James D. Havens (ca 1920) – woodblock printmaker, painter,[ 12] and first American insulin recipient[ 13]
N. Katherine Hayles (1966) – critical theorist [ 14]
Tom Hussey – photographer specializing in commercial advertising and lifestyle photography
Kenneth Josephson (1932) – photographer; founder of the Society for Photographic Education[ 15]
Jeannette Klute – Kodak research photographer who helped develop the Dye-transfer process and demonstrated color photography as an art form
Bryan Kocis – founder of Cobra Video [ 16]
Leon Lim – artist, contestant on Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
Dan Loh (1995) – Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for feature photography with the Associated Press in 1999[ 4]
Mary Lum (artist) – visual artist, recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, professor at Bennington College
Zwelethu Mthethwa (1989) – South African painter and photographer[citation needed ]
David Muench – landscape and nature photographer[citation needed ]
Elli Perkins – professional glass artist[citation needed ]
Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry – activist, philanthropist[ 17]
Wallace Seawell (1940) – Hollywood photographer[citation needed ]
Daria Semegen – composer of classical music[citation needed ]
Ronald Senungetuk – Inupiat artist[citation needed ]
William Snyder (1981) – four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist; director of photography, Dallas Morning News [ 18]
David Spindel – photographer[citation needed ]
Anthony Suau (1978) – Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for feature photography with the Denver Post in 1978[citation needed ]
Emily Thompson (1984) – associate professor of history, University of San Diego; 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow[citation needed ]
Jerry Uelsmann (1957) – photographer, darkroom artist and Professor Emeritus of the University of Florida[ 4]
Craig Varjabedian – photographer[citation needed ]
Eloise Wilkin (1923) – illustrator for Little Golden Books [ 19]
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^ Watrous, James: "The American Color Woodcuts: Bounty from the Block, 1890s-1990s" Elvehjem Museum of Art: University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1993,101.
^ Feudtner, Chris: "Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness" University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2003,48-53.
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^ Peebles-Wilkins, Wilma (July 26, 2016). "Black Women and American Social Welfare: The Life of Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry". Affilia . 4 (1): 33–44. doi :10.1177/088610998900400104 . S2CID 143984557 .
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^ Jim Memmott (November 5, 2014). Memmott: "Celebrating Eloise Wilkin's golden career" . Rochester Democrat & Chronicle .
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