News by Topic: Student Clubs And Organizations

An effort by RIT to encourage its students to become active voters has made an impact on voter registrations and resulted in recent national designations.

RIT students, faculty, and staff will contribute music, dance, comedy, poetry, photojournalism, and more during the 11th annual Rochester Fringe Festival, which begins Sept. 13 and continues through Sept. 24 in downtown Rochester.

WHAM-TV features the Phi Delta Theta fraternity's fundraising efforts for ALS research. Fraternity members are collecting quarters to lay end-to-end along the Quarter Mile.

RIT's Performing Arts Scholars are smart and academic achievers, inquisitive and curious, creative and imaginative, driven to succeed, do not accept failure, and are goal oriented.

Seth Meyers, comedian and host of Late Night with Seth Meyers, will be the guest speaker at RIT’s Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend, Oct. 14-16. Other Brick City Weekend highlights being planned include the popular “Dueling Pianos” concerts, family activities, RIT college programming, performing arts, RIT Sports Hall of Fame Ceremony, and a 5K run.

Explore, discover, and get involved were some of the suggestions the newest RIT students received during Thursday’s New Student Convocation, which included welcomes from administrators, their new Student Government president, and even some levity featuring RIT President David Munson who pretended he needed to finish his college education.

Aditya Khanna is a fourth-year computer science major from Shrewsbury, Mass., and this year's Student Government president.

A new state-of-the-art golf simulator has been installed in the RIT Student Life Center and will enable students, faculty, staff, and alumni to experience virtual golfing on more than 170 courses around the world.

Rochester Business Journal reports on Wayfair's gift of roughly $850,000 in server equipment to RIT’s Computer Science House. The donation was facilitated by RIT alum Fred Oettinger, who works at the company.  

When RIT’s Computer Science House put out a call for hardware donations last year, Fred Oettinger—an alumnus and staff engineer at Wayfair—got an idea. He knew that Wayfair had just what they needed. Wayfair, one the world’s largest destinations for the home, has gifted RIT’s Computer Science House (CSH) about $850,000 in server equipment.

More than 1,500 students from 100 national and international collegiate race teams competed June 2-5 at RIT’s Gordon Field House and the Hogback Hill Motocross site in Palmyra, N.Y. Several teams aced the course, but at the end of the weekend, RIOT Racing, RIT’s Baja race team, conquered the field.

RIT alumnus and trustee Brooks Bower ’74 (printing) has made a gift to the multi-use complex under construction that will showcase the university as a place for technology, the arts, and design.