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August 17, 2022
RIT welcomes 3,300 students to Henrietta campus
WHEC-TV highlights move-in day for first-year and transfer students.
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August 17, 2022
RIT Combined Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree student enrollment steadily increases
There are 740 new RIT students enrolled in the Combined Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree program, designed to offer highly focused, goal-oriented incoming students a one-of-a-kind opportunity to work toward a bachelor’s and master’s degree, starting from the first day of classes.
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August 17, 2022
Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program grows integrating community-based projects to balance technical skills
Jessica Wagner and her classmates put together a plan to tame the traffic near Rochester’s International Plaza on Clinton Avenue. Students like Wagner, who are participating in RIT’s Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars program, are finding ways to integrate technical coursework with personal interests for careers that matter.
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August 16, 2022
Open@RIT receives Sloan Foundation grant to continue supporting open work
RIT’s open programs office has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to build external partnerships and continue supporting those doing work in the open community.
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August 16, 2022
DDI Summer Experience provides in-person chance for incoming students to acclimate to college life
More than 50 first-year RIT students from underrepresented populations launched their college careers early this summer. The students participated in RIT’s Division of Diversity and Inclusion (DDI) Summer Experience, a four-week program to help students successfully transition to college.
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August 16, 2022
Lessons from "The Jetsons"
WXXI’s “Connections” program features professor emeritus Roger Dube.
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August 15, 2022
More than 3,000 new Tigers arrive at RIT this week
More than 3,000 new students arrive on the RIT campus this week, making it the second largest class.
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August 12, 2022
First RIT cohort in BS/MD program begins first year at SUNY Upstate Medical University
RIT biomedical sciences program graduates Cameron Shuman and Zach Williams represent the first cohort of students admitted to the State University of New York Upstate Medical University.
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August 11, 2022
Orientation leaders set to welcome the next class of RIT tigers
Ben Clements, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major from Clifton Springs, N.Y., is an RIT student orientation coordinator for this year’s incoming class, and will be supervising around 150 orientation leaders.
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August 11, 2022
A fresh start
Rochester Beacon profiles Token, a Rochester-based company launched by RIT graduates in 2015 and currently chaired by Kevin Surace ’85 (electrical engineering technology).
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August 10, 2022
Meet Aditya Khanna, RIT’s Student Government president
Aditya Khanna is a fourth-year computer science major from Shrewsbury, Mass., and this year's Student Government president.
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August 10, 2022
RIT bookstore moves online
This year will mark the beginning of RIT’s partnership with Akademos to create a new, virtual bookstore. The new website will allow students to find the best prices for the materials for each of their classes and can ship materials directly to them.