News by Topic: Student Experience

RIT continually works to improve and enhance the university experience for our students. Through student clubs and organizations, unique classes and programs, a comprehensive wellness program, and university-led initiatives, students have plenty of opportunities to express themselves, make lifelong connections, and do extraordinary things.

October 6, 2015

Homecoming features hockey, speakers and reunions

Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend is Oct. 16-18 and features such events as speaker Jamie Hyneman of MythBusters and a men’s hockey game at Blue Cross Arena.
October 2, 2015

Design students promote healthy lifestyle

Meet Michael Kelly and Liah Perez, who participated in an intensive 48-hour School of Design blitz to help children at a recreation center make healthy choices.
October 1, 2015

Top stories and videos for September

News about RIT’s ranking among the Most Innovative Schools and the lunar eclipse were among the most popular last month. Check out all of September’s top stories and videos.
September 29, 2015

Zipcar service now available at RIT

The RIT campus will now host two cars, a Ford Focus and a Ford Escape, which members of Zipcar can rent for hourly or daily rates.
September 28, 2015

Thousands of students prepared for RIT Career Fair

More than 250 companies and agencies will be on campus seeking skilled employees at RIT's fall Career Fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday in the Gordon Field House.
September 25, 2015

RIT receives second consecutive diversity award

RIT received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the university's second consecutive HEED award.
September 25, 2015

RIT makers invited to compete for $1 million

RIT students, alumni, faculty and staff are invited to submit their smart-device ideas to America’s Greatest Makers. Competitors will vie for a $1 million prize.
September 24, 2015

Student prepares improv team for Fringe Festival

Meet Andrew Ahlquist, a fourth-year game design and development student, and leader of The Improvessionals, an RIT improv group performing at the Rochester Fringe Festival.
September 23, 2015

Deaf hip-hop artist Sean Forbes to perform at RIT

Sean Forbes, deaf hip-hop artist and RIT alum, will perform on campus at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in Panara Theatre. Tickets are on sale now for $10.
September 22, 2015

Welcome to Merit

RIT uses Merit to share students’ academic accomplishments with their friends and family through their social media networks and their hometown newspapers.
September 17, 2015

Freshman represents U.S. in physics tournament

Meet John Lukowski, a first-year electrical engineering major. Lukowski competed in the International Young Physicists' Tournament in Thailand over the summer.
September 17, 2015

RIT to test emergency alert system Sept. 20

RIT will conduct a test of RIT Alert, the emergency notification system, at approximately 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. This is only a test; no action is needed.

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