News by Topic: Student Experience

The competition asked students to step into the role of a Microsoft Cloud and AI Specialist for a day and work alongside professionals from Microsoft, Mastercard, EY, and GitHub. Out of more than 1,000 applications, the RIT team was selected as one of 17 finalists and won first place.

RIT alumni are building professions in fields that were unthinkable a generation ago. Meet eight alumni, from across the university, who are shaping new careers.

RIT President Bill Sanders will discuss a wide range of topics live in the WITR studio in the Student Alumni Union on Nov. 17.

Professor Karin Wuertz-Kozak is developing gene and cell therapies that may be the next step in tissue regeneration, a type of noninvasive treatment that could control the molecular mechanisms contributing to pain, mostly inflammation.

Multidisciplinary student teams gained co-op and internship experience working on projects for Rochester-area organizations serving people with disabilities.

What began as a photography project became a community movement. Led by an RIT assistant professor and powered by a network of collaborators, the GoodPhone Project is restoring a simple but essential service.

RIT graduate and undergraduate students helped Associate Professor Jie Qiao turn a research vision more than a decade in the making into a breakthrough that could change how advanced optical components are made.

Ben Garvey founded Great Lakes Gaming, a downtown Rochester complex that he sees as a country club for local gamers, where people can compete and socialize.

As a service engineer for Abbott in Detroit, Michael Kormos provides electrical anatomical mapping to locate and navigate heart arrhythmias and tissue damage.

Northforker highlights RIT students participating in the inaugural Steamroller Printmaking Festival in Riverhead, N.Y., where approximately a dozen students will use oversized woodblocks carved for their RIT printmaking coursework to create large-scale prints using a steamroller.

RIT’s Creative Code for Music course encourages students to explore the intersection between technology and the arts. One manifestation of that involves showcasing their programming skills during a musical theater performance.

RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to expand access to computing and information technology education for secondary and post-secondary students.