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  • September 24, 2018

    Characters from Final Fantasy assembled in a group looking off camera.

    RPO partners with RIT for ‘Final Fantasy’ performance

    As part of a university initiative that encourages its students to experience the city’s rich artistic community, RIT will partner with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and The Strong to make gaming come alive through music and art.

  • September 18, 2018

    An action photo of the cast performing the show "How I learned to Drive." Six people sit and stand around a dinner table while five others dressed in black stand on a raised platform behind them.

    RIT announces 2018-2019 theatrical season

    Four performances presenting an array of cultural, political and social issues are part of a new collaborative season by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts Theater Arts Program and RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf performing arts program.

  • September 13, 2018

    Austin McChord, David Muson and Brandon Hudson stand together for a photo.

    RIT helps students take an entrepreneurial gap year

    Brandon Hudson is the first student selected for the Gap Year Entrepreneurship Fellows Program, which allows students with an ongoing enterprise to take a year to focus their full attention on the venture. He will receive $15,000 in support and mentoring while also making progress on his RIT degree.

  • September 12, 2018

    Catch the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival

    RIT is a major educational sponsor of the community collaborative event, now in its seventh year, and will provide free shuttle bus service to and from campus during the festival weekends. All of the 38 RIT performances and exhibits are free.

  • August 30, 2018

    A photo looking down on a drum set with five people holding out their drum sticks over the drums, as if they are about to all play the drums at once.

    RIT drumline welcomes new members

    Meet Tim Coon, a fourth-year software engineering major and member of the RIT drumline, Jazz Ensemble, RIT Pep Band and the newly created Game Symphony Orchestra.

  • August 24, 2018

    President Munson outlines RIT’s 2025 Strategic Plan

    RIT President David Munson said exciting changes are in the works in RIT’s revised 2025 Strategic Plan that will help the university get closer to becoming a top-50 university, yet unlike any other top-50 university in the nation.

  • August 22, 2018

    Group of students celebrating in parking lot at convocation.

    New students urged to dream and change the world

    Get involved, know your fellow students and professors, and take advantage of as many opportunities as you can was the main theme expressed during New Student Convocation at RIT today, as the university welcomed its most academically qualified first-year students.