News by Topic: Student Experience

Computer science major Emma Schmitt took a required co-op seminar class to help prepare for the internship search and what do to on the job, helping her land co-ops at Honeywell/LenelS2 and Microsoft.

Amelia Hunkele, now in her second year as a new media design major, is this year’s winning artist for the Imagine RIT poster, which depicts a Rube Goldberg machine.

National Today reports on comments from Bill Sanders, president of RIT, and Susan Puglia, chair of RIT’s Board of Trustees, about the university’s new 2035 Strategic Framework outlining priorities such as student success, research growth, and global impact.

Rochester Business Journal speaks to RIT President Bill Sanders about the university’s proposed Strategic Framework 2035 outlining priorities such as student success, expanded research, and global impact.

RIT has launched a new decade-long strategic framework that will guide the university’s priorities, investments, inspiration, and aspirations through 2035.

After Lily Evans, president of the Theme Park Enthusiasts club, completed a co-op last year at Universal's Epic Universe in Orlando, she accepted another with Universal’s Global Attractions Program, overseeing the redevelopment and refurbishment of attractions.

13WHAM spotlights RIT's annual PBJam, an event where students, staff, and administrators, including RIT President Bill Sanders, made more than 1,100 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to kick off the university's United Way Campaign.

As part of a collaborative capstone project, students from new media design and new media interactive development are creating interactive experiences with alternative controllers. Three of the projects will be exhibited at the Game Developers Conference Festival of Gaming next week.

Students get hands-on experience learning what it takes to open the state-of-the-art RIT Performing Arts Center, set to open April 10.

Jeff Chen’s analysis of the game In Stars and Time has earned him the Game Developers Conference Game Narrative Review program’s prestigious Gold Prize, which enables him to give a talk and present a poster at the annual event in March.

Nearly 60 RIT students and 20 alumni and faculty members helped document the 2026 Winter Games as part of an ongoing collaboration with Special Olympics New York.

When first-year student Phillip Minardo came to RIT, business wasn't part of his original plan—until a single class changed his mindset by mimicking a real-world workplace experience.