Catherine Hauser had a home advantage when doing a middle school writing assignment on grammar. She reviewed the homework with her parents, both trained journalists and magazine editors. Yet Catherine was a tad dumbfounded when she didn’t ace the assignment. “Her teacher was looking for the style rules she’d used in class, particularly for capitalization, more »
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You know it’s summer when the students on campus get a little smaller, a little younger and clad in all colors of T-shirts with names of programs like WE@RIT, Kids on Campus and Summer MASH Camp. It got me thinking about how often people at RIT, beyond the admissions staff, are involved with K-12 students—either more »
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The school year is just about complete, and I reached my goal of posting an Under the Hood gem every Monday since the first one ran in January. I hope you learned a little more about how University News operates, and thanks for letting me vent about how this job change has affected my life more »
Categories: Blogging, Campus life, Students, Under the Hood Comments OffWell, I was grossly underprepared for that! Saturday was RIT’s fourth Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival, and it was my first. My co-workers and I had to work. The writers dispersed to cover the cool things going on with their beats, taking plenty of pictures and videos and sending plenty of tweets. I stayed more »
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For a short time I resided in a small city with a population of just more than 15,000 people in an area of about 11 square miles. RIT, a “small city” itself, occupies 1,300 acres—equivalent to 2 square miles—consisting of more than 17,200 students and abundant staff and faculty members. Who are these people nestled into more »
Categories: Athenaeum, Campus life Comments OffMy colleagues warned me that April/May is our busy season. Boy are they right! A lot has been going on around campus, and we still have a few more weeks until the academic year comes to a close. In early April, we had back-to-back announcements about the Institute of Health Sciences and Technology and the more »
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