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March 17, 2021
Tiger Records offers RIT students insight into the music industry
For years, Rochester Institute of Technology students have been able to take music lessons. But now, they can also learn more about the music industry by taking a class about artist management, recording, production, and marketing.
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March 10, 2021
Broadway veterans host workshops for RIT students
RIT students have the opportunity this spring to learn from professional artists in a series of free virtual workshops with Broadway performers and dancers. The “Broadway Comes to RIT” series will be held on Sundays, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. via Zoom.
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March 1, 2021
RIT holds student contest to name the Innovative Maker and Learning Complex
The Innovative Maker and Learning Complex will be a building like no other on the RIT campus, and an alumnus who is helping make it possible wants RIT students to give it a name to remember. A contest to name the building is for current RIT undergraduate and graduate students in good standing. Deadline for submission is March 13. Voting will begin March 18.
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February 26, 2021
RIT/NTID and Garth Fagan Dance announce working partnership
RIT and NTID have announced a partnership with Garth Fagan Dance for a “cooperative-creative-connection” to begin Aug. 1.
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February 21, 2021
RIT hosts 'NY PopsUp' event to revive the arts
WHEC-TV talks to David Long, director of RIT's MAGIC Center, about hosting New York state's first "NY PopsUp" event.
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February 19, 2021
New acoustic rooms at RIT enhance student experience in performing arts
New state-of-the-art sound isolation rehearsal rooms which can simulate being in a small room, large arena, or even a cathedral are available to RIT students involved in performing arts.
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February 17, 2021
RIT celebrates outstanding staff with university’s Presidential Awards
RIT honored the service and dedication of its employees with the Presidential Awards for Outstanding Staff ceremony Feb. 17. The annual awards, this year held as a webinar, are presented to staff members who exemplify outstanding service and dedication to the university and who exhibit a high degree of personal ethics and integrity while consistently demonstrating a strong commitment to student success.
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February 11, 2021
CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival planned for RIT in summer 2021
In an effort to do everything possible to deliver a festival this summer, the producers of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival are pleased to announce that planning is underway to present the festival’s 19th edition this year on the RIT campus.
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February 5, 2021
Performing Arts Challenge features 11 top student entertainers
Cheer on some of RIT’s best student entertainers who will perform virtually in Dr. Munson’s Performing Arts Challenge.
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January 29, 2021
Outdoor ice skating, Performing Arts Challenge, escape rooms planned for FreezeFest ’21
Outdoor ice skating, Dr. Munson’s Performing Arts Challenge, giveaways, hot chocolate, and a virtual escape room are some of the activities planned for this year’s FreezeFest beginning Feb. 4 on the RIT campus.
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January 15, 2021
Performing Arts Scholars Program flourishes
Now in its second year, the Performing Arts Scholars Program at RIT has more than doubled in participants, with 368 first-year students involved in classical or jazz instrumental music, voice, musical theater, acting, technical theater, dance, or video game composition.
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January 15, 2021
First-year students have high academic qualifications
RIT welcomed 3,129 first-year students last fall. For students seeking a bachelor’s degree, their average SAT score was just under 1300, and the average ACT score was 30. Sixty-three were at the top of their high school graduating class.