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March 2, 2017
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Author/historian delves into ‘West Side Story’
Julia Foulkes, professor of history at The New School in New York, will discuss her book, A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York, as the guest speaker of The Crossroads: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on American Music Speaker Series hosted by RIT’s School of Individualized Study. -
November 28, 2016
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Donate personal care items to Center for Youth
RIT students are collecting personal care items, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap, shavers, toilet paper and feminine hygiene products, to be donated to the Center for Youth shelter for teens. Donations are being collected on campus through Thursday. -
November 23, 2016
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Students curate exhibit on individualized education
A class of 18 museum studies students put together “Charting One’s Course: The History of Individualized Education at RIT,” an exhibit that tells a wider narrative of RIT’s individualized education programs, which date back to the 1880s. -
November 17, 2016
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Ethnomusicologist, social media expert to speak
College professor, social media researcher, songwriter, performer and author Kyra Gaunt will speak Nov. 28 as part of the School of Individualized Study’s Interdisciplinary Perspectives on American Music Speaker Series. -
November 14, 2016
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Student selected for Gandhi Institute fellowship
Janine Burge, who is studying psychology and urban studies in RIT’s School of Individualized Study and sociology and anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, has been selected as a 2016-17 Gandhi Institute Service Fellow at the Rochester-based M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. -
October 27, 2016
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Student selected as Gandhi Institute fellow
Meet Janine Burge, a fourth-year student in the School of Individualized Study and 2016-17 Gandhi Institute Service Fellow for the Rochester area. -
October 25, 2016
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Cartoonist Ed Piskor visits RIT Nov. 2
The School of Individualized Study hosts independent comic artist Ed Piskor for its inaugural Comics Studies workshop and lecture. -
September 27, 2016
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Hundreds of employers seek students at annual fall Career Fair
Nearly 250 employing organizations and hundreds of recruiter representatives seeking RIT students and graduates are attending the Fall 2016 Career Fair Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Gordon Field House. -
September 20, 2016
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RIT launches MicroMasters program with edX
RIT is taking part as a leader in an innovative approach to education — the MicroMasters program of edX, the leading nonprofit online learning destination. -
September 14, 2016
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RIT hosts lecture on combating water scarcity
David Warsinger, a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, presents “Combating Growing Water Scarcity: The Potential and Need for Desalinization and Water Reuse” on Sept. 21. -
September 6, 2016
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RIT connects with out-of-this-world entertainment
Star Trek Continues actor and director Vic Mignogna will discuss production and music composition for the online series on Friday. -
April 13, 2016
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RIT joins research experience program
Undergraduate students from around the country will try their hand at research as part of an upcoming Research Experience for Undergraduates program at RIT.
