News by Topic: Student Experience

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September 16, 2013

Fringe Festival wraps up Saturday

The RIT lineup includes an eclectic mix of poetry, dance, film, theater, music and the visual arts at the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival, which ends Saturday.
September 16, 2013

RGHS to provide sports medicine services to RIT

RIT and Rochester General Health System will team up to provide a customized sports medicine program for the university’s 600-plus student athletes.
September 16, 2013

RPO Marimba Band performs at RIT Sept. 20

The RPO Marimba Band kicks off RIT’s Performing Artists Concert Series.
September 12, 2013

Fraternity event benefits children’s hospital

A Q&A with Jarrett Plante, a third-year marketing major who is participating in Tau Kappa Epsilon’s Tent Out for St. Jude Children’s Hospital event.
September 10, 2013

Lecture addresses the ‘academically adrift’

Richard Arum, a renowned sociologist of education, will discuss critical thinking skills at the second annual Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking lecture.
September 10, 2013

RIT’s Leadership Institute helps at-risk teens

A program by the Leadership Institute, the Community Place of Greater Rochester and Hillside Family of Agencies helps teens learn skills such as conflict resolution.
September 5, 2013

Student helping to lead popular campus event

A Q&A with Gabriel Isserlis, co-president of the Humans vs. Zombies club, as the campus-wide game of tag is set to kick off Sunday night.
August 30, 2013

Top RIT News stories and videos from the summer

While many students, faculty and staff were away during the summer months, much was happening on campus. Here are some stories and videos you may have missed.
August 26, 2013

RIT to celebrate semester conversion

Students, faculty and staff will gather Aug. 29 to celebrate the efforts of everyone involved in helping the university move from a quarterly academic calendar to semesters.
August 23, 2013

Destler welcomes back RIT community

RIT President Bill Destler urged the university community to collectively “sustain RIT’s momentum” in his annual welcome back address, delivered this morning.
August 22, 2013

Todd Pagano addresses RIT community

RIT officially kicked off the school year on Wednesday with Fall Convocation. NTID’s Todd Pagano, the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year, delivered the keynote address.
August 22, 2013

Student Government president addresses students

Paul Darragh, a third-year software engineering major, addressed the crowd during convocation on Wednesday.

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