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  • December 1, 2016

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    Top stories and videos for November

    News and a video about the launch of RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios were among the most popular last month. Check out all of November’s top stories and videos.

  • November 29, 2016

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    RIT Theme Park Enthusiasts sweep competition

    Six members of RIT’s Theme Park Enthusiasts club won four awards during the Ryerson Invitational Thrill Design Competition, hosted by Universal Creative. The competition invited teams from four colleges to create theme park rides or make modifications to existing rides.

  • November 28, 2016

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    Donate personal care items to Center for Youth

    RIT students are collecting personal care items, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap, shavers, toilet paper and feminine hygiene products, to be donated to the Center for Youth shelter for teens. Donations are being collected on campus through Thursday.

  • November 23, 2016

    Poster for "The History of Individualized Education at RIT"

    Students curate exhibit on individualized education

    A class of 18 museum studies students put together “Charting One’s Course: The History of Individualized Education at RIT,” an exhibit that tells a wider narrative of RIT’s individualized education programs, which date back to the 1880s.

  • November 23, 2016

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    Public relations club members receive college credit

    RIT students who belong to the Public Relations Student Society of America are having their club meetings in a classroom this fall. They are among the first in the country to receive college credit for being members of a PRSSA chapter.

  • November 21, 2016

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    Program helps Native American scholars thrive

    The Future Stewards Program is the reason why RIT is recognized as one of the top schools in the country for Native American students. Through the program, Native scholars are recruited to RIT, supported while on campus and encouraged to be active in the future of their tribal communities.

  • November 15, 2016

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    Business club hosts ice skating fundraiser

    RIT’s Women in Business club hopes to raise $500 to help send a Make-A-Wish child to Disney World. The club is offering ice skating from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday in Ritter Arena. Admission is $5 and includes skate rental, snacks and submarine sandwiches.

  • November 14, 2016

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    Student selected for Gandhi Institute fellowship

    Janine Burge, who is studying psychology and urban studies in RIT’s School of Individualized Study and sociology and anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, has been selected as a 2016-17 Gandhi Institute Service Fellow at the Rochester-based M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.

  • November 10, 2016

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    Graduate student finds family in peers

    Meet Sanjay Varma Rudraraju, a computer science graduate student from Visakhapatnam, India. He works in The Wallace Center and recently participated in The Giant Read, in which RIT students visited School No. 5 in the city of Rochester and read to first-graders.

  • November 7, 2016

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    RIT hosts annual Veterans Day Breakfast

    The sixth annual celebration, set for Friday in the Gordon Field House, pays tribute to those who are serving or have served honorably in uniform.

  • November 4, 2016

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    Student designs dress out of paper

    Meet Heather Williams, a third-year medical illustration major who designed and created an 18th century French court gown made out of paper for the CIAS Foundations Beaux Arts Ball.

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