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October 16, 2025
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"Early Morning Fishing" taken by Vincent Antonicelli, Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering. Submit your photo.

  
 
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Graduate Student Coffee Hour

When: October 23, 2025, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Crossroads, River Room

Stop by the October Graduate Student Coffee Hour. All master's and PhD students are welcome and encouraged to stop by for free coffee and to meet and mingle with graduate students from the various graduate programs across campus. We plan to host a graduate student coffee hour once a month this semester. Free coffee and cookies.
Register here
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AWARE-AI Fall 24 Hour Hackathon

When: October 23, 2025, 4:00 pm - 11:59 pm
Where: Engineering Hall, ENG-2560

When: October 24, 2025, 12:00 am - 6:00 pm
Where: Engineering Hall, ENG-2560

Facilitator: Ferat Sahin, Ph.D., Department Head, Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering

During the hackathon, graduate students will create a deployable AI system that exemplifies the principles of human awareness and responsibility and demo what they have created. Hosted by the AWARE-AI Program, this free competition welcomes NRT Trainees and other RIT graduate students. If you are not an AWARE-AI trainee, this free hackathon requires registration. 
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Awkward to Awesome: Your guide to networking without the cringe

When: Nov 06, 2025,4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Campus Center (CPC) - 2610/2650 Bamboo Rooms

When you hear the word networking, do you get nervous? Most of us do. Join us for a practice networking event! Professional networking is more than attending career fairs. During this event, you will learn strategies to walk into a networking event confidently, questions to ask, and ways to make solid connections. This will be an interactive workshop where you can practice your networking in a low-stress setting.
Register here
 
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Student walking past a building with fall leaves.

RIT hosting international Fulbright Program students

RIT’s main campus has welcomed six international Fulbright Program students for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Read full story by Mollie Radzinski >
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News Award-winning comics artists talk at RIT Oct. 9

Award-winning comics artists will discuss their art, characters, and publishing careers during an exhibit opening and book-signing event at RIT.

Read full story by Susan Gawlowicz > 
Person harvesting pole beans at RIT’s Tait Preserve garden.

Tait Preserve garden yields produce for campus eateries

Students dining at Gracie’s and Brick City Café might not know it, but some of the vegetables they’re eating may have been harvested that very same day on RIT property.

Read full story by Greg Livadas >
 
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Graduate Chat Series

Join us to learn how graduate business programs at RIT help further your career objectives.

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Civil Engineering and Construction Industry Career Fair

When: October 23, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: Gene Polisseni Center

Meet with employers regarding co-op and full-time opportunities for spring and summer 2026! Interview Day is October 24 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm in Bausch & Lomb Center only for students whom employers invite to interview.

Log in to RIT Career Connect or download the Symplicity Jobs and Careers app.
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Author Cole Arthur Riley posing beside event details for her lecture and book signing.

An Evening with Cole Arthur Riley

Lecture and Q&A
November 4, 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Schmitt Interfaith Center, Allen Chapel

Book Signing & Reception
November 4, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Campus Center, Fireside Lounge

Join The Collective as we welcome author Cole Arthur Riley for a lecture, Q&A session, followed by a book signing and reception. The night will focus on Riley’s work, Black Liturgies, a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body. ASL interpreters provided.

Register here
 

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