News by Topic: Student Experience
RIT continually works to improve and enhance the university experience for our students. Through student clubs and organizations, unique classes and programs, a comprehensive wellness program, and university-led initiatives, students have plenty of opportunities to express themselves, make lifelong connections, and do extraordinary things.
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November 25, 2025
EMBA students build community through a traveling stuffed tiger
A stuffed tiger named Cash is becoming their unlikely symbol of connection, traveling from home to home as a tangible link between classmates across the country.
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November 19, 2025
Club sports help students find their fit
Club sports are a big part of student life at the university. Every year, about 2,000 students are involved with the nearly 50 different club sports. For many, it scratches that competitive itch. For others, it’s a chance to try something new, find a community, and stay active.
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November 19, 2025
RIT innovation helps illuminate lost history
The goal of libraries, museums, and archives around the world is to safeguard historical documents, but some objects can deteriorate with time. RIT’s Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) lab is using funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a relatively low-cost system that makes cultural heritage imaging methods more accessible.
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November 19, 2025
Manifesting quantum: How RIT researchers are navigating the next frontier of physics
RIT researchers are zeroing in on quantum photonics, the creation, control, and detection of light. Photonics has long been a specialty of the university. RIT led the team that developed the first quantum photonic wafer, which is key to the future of mass-produced quantum communication systems.
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November 19, 2025
RIT’s Hunger Project packs over 30,000 meals for Rochester community and campus food pantry
WHEC-TV speaks to Bill St. Jean, associate director of the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, about the impact the food distribution has in the community.
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November 19, 2025
RIT students pack meals for 8th Hunger Project
WROC-TV highlights the students, faculty, and staff that packaged meals for the community, speaking to Bill St. Jean, associate director of the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, about the impact.
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November 18, 2025
Psychology professor creates big team science network for otter research
Professor Caroline DeLong established the ManyOtters project in collaboration with several other universities to share research, knowledge, and to explore the cognitive abilities of otters. -
November 18, 2025
Civil engineering technology alumni return to grow RIT campus
Two civil engineering technology graduates from 2008 have returned to the RIT campus, this time, to use their knowledge to help build the Music Performance Theater set to open next spring.
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November 17, 2025
Early impressions: WITR hosts President Sanders
Learn what RIT President Bill Sanders’s early impressions are of the university when he visits WITR-FM (89.7) this week.
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November 14, 2025
Students form Interfaith Council
Nearly 2,500 students who engage in spiritual programs and services on campus now have a unified voice in the Interfaith Council, the university’s newest organization.
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November 12, 2025
RIT student brings the action of ‘Predator: Badlands’ to the streets of Los Angeles
Lucy Ray, a fourth-year medical illustration and psychology dual-degree student, spent her summer working as a contracted artist for Drissi Advertising, working on ads for movies like Predator: Badlands.
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November 12, 2025
Stefan Schulze’s lab aims to build the foundation for new biomedical treatments
Backed by an award from the National Institutes of Health, Assistant Professor Stefan Schulze is using his expertise in the structure and function of proteins to work with a bacterial pathogen commonly associated with antibiotic resistance.