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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June 11, 2019
Grit Happens: Baja SAE Rochester crowns season race champion at RIT and Hogback Hill
The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor took first place overall at the 2019 Baja SAE Rochester challenge, an international student-design competition that challenges students to apply classroom knowledge with real-world applications. RIT placed 10th overall among 100 collegiate race teams that took on a daunting motor cross field and four challenging days of competition.
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June 11, 2019
Success for Students With Autism
Inside Higher Ed features RIT's Spectrum Support Program.
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June 5, 2019
RIT Baja Racing goes off-road for competition and careers
RIT Racing and teams from Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, India and the United States will field race cars, built by student-engineers, and test them on a track that will challenge not only the durability of the cars but the problem-solving capabilities of the teams during the 2019 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge June 6-9.
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June 5, 2019
Award shines light on graduate education at RIT and the increase of graduate women
The Outstanding Graduate Woman Achievement award was established to raise awareness of graduate students and their accomplishments. This year's award was presented to Mireya Salinas, who earned her MFA this May and spoke at commencement as the College of Art and Design graduate delegate.
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May 31, 2019
Metaproject 09: Sesame Street and the Urgency of Play
Design Milk features the latest Metaproject challenge results.
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May 30, 2019
RIT student develops tool to visualize molecular dynamics of proteins in virtual reality
Kyle Diller, a fifth-year computer science student from East Windsor, N.J., developed a plug-in application for the molecular visualization program UCSF ChimeraX. The application is currently under development at the University of California at San Francisco. Diller’s plug-in allows users to display an atomic structure as if it were a movie so they can see how the structure changes.
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May 29, 2019
Churchville Elementary students connect with RIT pen pals
The Daily Messenger writes about a project started by Allie Zeznick, fourth-year physician assistant major.
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May 28, 2019
RIT graduate co-stars in the film ‘Guest Artist’ with Jeff Daniels
Thomas Macias ’13 (applied arts and sciences) has made his feature film debut, co-staring with actor Jeff Daniels in Guest Artist. Guest Artist was originally written as a play by Daniels and turned into a film by director Timothy Busfield.
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May 23, 2019
76-year-old volunteer drives low-income college students home from school
CBS This Morning features how volunteer Paul Goetchius makes a difference for Ruby Zathang, a second-year Saunders College of Business student, through the On Point for College program.
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May 23, 2019
Christa continues foray into student housing with $100M project near RIT
Rochester Business Journal reports on new student housing near RIT
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May 14, 2019
RIT Esports competes with best colleges in the nation at ESPN Championships in Houston
A team of Hearthstone players represented RIT and joined 20 other top colleges at the first-ever ESPN Collegiate Esports Championship. RIT became one of the top four teams in the country and the three RIT student players received $7,500 in tuition scholarships.
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May 10, 2019
RIT’s record 4,200 graduates challenged to ‘enrich the world’
Keynote speaker John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), told graduates during this morning's convocation ceremony that they are entering “the Imagination Age, an age that calls for new ways to see, to imagine, to think, to act, to learn and one that also calls for us to re-examine the foundations of our way of being human, and what it means to be human.”