Campus Spotlight

May 15, 2023

<p>The RIT campus was filled with smiles last weekend during the university’s 138th commencement. RIT is celebrating more than 4,800 graduates this year, including those attending global campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai, and Kosovo.</p>

Photo by Carlos Ortiz

The RIT campus was filled with smiles last weekend during the university’s 138th commencement. RIT is celebrating more than 4,800 graduates this year, including those attending global campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai, and Kosovo.

College student wearing graduation regalia on stage with two faculty members placing the ceremonial hood on her shoulders.

Photo by Elizabeth Lamark

The Graduate School held a Doctoral Hooding Ceremony in recognition of RIT’s newest Ph.D.s. Faculty advisers placed the formal hooding regalia on the candidates in celebration of the new generation of scholars. RIT conferred a record 69 Ph.D. degrees May 12, marking a 53 percent increase from last year.
four college students wearing graduation regalia sitting in a row at a ceremony.

Photo by Elizabeth Lamark

The RIT campus was filled with smiles last weekend during the university’s 138th commencement. RIT is celebrating more than 4,800 graduates this year, including those attending global campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai, and Kosovo.
six college students wearing graduation regalia posing for a group photo.

Photo by Elizabeth Lamark

The RIT campus was filled with smiles last weekend during the university’s 138th commencement. RIT is celebrating more than 4,800 graduates this year, including those attending global campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai, and Kosovo.
Group of graduating college student sitting on a stage while they each walk down a center aisle and have a white doctor’s coat put on them.

Photo by Elizabeth Lamark

The Physician Assistant White Coat ceremony May 11 turned into a family affair when Madeline Nepokroeff ’23 BS/MS, center, received her professional coat. Nepokroeff’s three older sisters—all alumnae from RIT’s physician assistant program—presented her with the three-quarter-length white coat symbolizing her rise from student to professional physician assistant, Emilee Nepokroeff ’19, left, Elizabeth Pastore ’17, back, and Anastasia Nepokroeff ’21, right, showed their support for Madeline during the 25th annual coating ceremony. Nepokroeff was one of 35 students to graduate this year from the BS/MS physician assistant program.
five college students wearing graduation regalia sitting on the ground in front of a tiger paw painted in the grass.

Photo by Carlos Ortiz

The RIT campus was filled with smiles last weekend during the university’s 138th commencement. RIT is celebrating more than 4,800 graduates this year, including those attending global campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai, and Kosovo.
college student wearing graduation regalia riding a tiger statue with his arm raised in the air.

Photo by Carlos Ortiz

The RIT campus was filled with smiles last weekend during the university’s 138th commencement. RIT is celebrating more than 4,800 graduates this year, including those attending global campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai, and Kosovo.
NASA administrator sitting at a table talking with college students.

Photo by Carlos Ortiz

Ahead of RIT’s commencement ceremonies, featured speaker and NASA physicist Thomas Zurbuchen had an informal meet-and-greet with students and faculty in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science building on May 11.
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