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.
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November 1, 2019
Register for Dr. Munson's Performing Arts Challenge
President Munson’s Performing Arts Challenge will be part of Freeze Fest in 2020. The contest is open to all current RIT students who enjoy dance, music, theater, comedy, juggling and more.
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October 31, 2019
RIT students place second in national packaging design competition
Team Pacman, a group of undergraduate students from Rochester Institute of Technology, placed second among 54 entries from competing universities in the recent Paperboard Packaging Alliance’s national Student Design Challenge.
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October 29, 2019
Best colleges to face-off at international offensive cybersecurity competition finals at RIT
The winners of the world’s largest collegiate offensive-based cybersecurity competition will be crowned at the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition finals Nov. 22–24 at RIT.
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October 25, 2019
RIT’s Global Consortium brings student leaders to Zagreb
RIT’s Global Consortium unites Student Government leaders from the various RIT campuses to discuss common issues and best practices.
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October 22, 2019
Student who starred on Nigerian TV follows his passions for music, engineering at RIT
Adesola "Dewé" Adedewe, a third-year electrical engineering major, may be thousands of miles from his native Nigeria, but that doesn’t stop him from being recognized by other international students who watched him as a contestant on The Voice: Nigeria, which aired throughout the African continent in 2016.
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October 21, 2019
President Munson to field questions on WITR radio show
WITR-FM (89.7) presents Ask Munson, featuring RIT’s president taking listener questions live at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 23.
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October 21, 2019
Anderson Cooper tells RIT students his role is to inform, not tell people how to vote
Before his talk Saturday to thousands as the RIT Student Government distinguished speaker, journalist Anderson Cooper met with members of Student Government to answer their questions about his life experience, his work and the state of government in the United States and the world.
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October 18, 2019
Student Spotlight: From studying abroad to a master’s degree
Lucie Le Scolan came to RIT from Rennes, France, on a study abroad trip last fall as a graduation requirement for her former school. Once she completed her five-year engineering diploma, she decided to return to RIT for her master’s degree in engineering management.
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October 17, 2019
Podcast: The Impact of Malaria on Global Health
Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 25: Not all learning does, or can, happen in a classroom. Last summer, Bolaji Thomas, professor in the College of Health Sciences and Technology, took a group of students to Nigeria to give them a firsthand look at the impact of malaria on global health. Abigail Melake, a biomedical sciences major, and Janice Fung, a biotechnology and molecular bioscience major, talk about what they learned.
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October 17, 2019
Moving from USA to Croatia to study: ‘I fell in love with the people, culture and nature’
Croatia Week highlights Emily Arnold, who is studying international business at RIT Croatia.
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October 15, 2019
RIT GEAR UP celebrates Rochester Class of 2020
A special partnership between RIT and the Rochester City School District and charter schools has primed the Class of 2020 for success through a college and career readiness program that began six years ago, when the cohort was in middle school, and has now reached its culminating year.
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October 14, 2019
Last call for advance tickets for RIT’s Brick City Weekend
Time is running out to get advance tickets for events at this weekend’s RIT Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend, starting Friday.