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 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.
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November 11, 2025
RIT professor brings nutrition expertise to international collaboration
A remote networking session Associate Professor Brenda Abu attended for academics from African countries has led to a promising collaboration that extends her scholarship and the influence of RIT to communities in Ghana.
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November 7, 2025
First-year Performing Arts Scholar lands major role in 'Macbeth'
After arriving on campus for the first time just a few weeks before their audition, Angel Ash landed a major role in Macbeth, showing in the SHED’s Sklarsky Glass Box Theater.
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November 7, 2025
Music Performance Theater passes first acoustic test
Five months before the first audience is expected in RIT’s new Music Performance Theater, a string quartet from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and students from the RIT Philharmonic Orchestra were the first to take the stage to help conduct acoustic testing.
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November 6, 2025
New eye-tracking research will help understand how deaf people process vocabulary
Researchers will soon use eye-tracking to show how deafness impacts vocabulary knowledge and reading as well as how deaf and hard-of-hearing children, who have historically shown lower than average reading outcomes, develop into highly skilled readers.
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November 5, 2025
Students ditch doomscrolling for hand-stitched expression
Casting aside the daily doomscroll and picking up a slow hobby like hand-stitched embroidery can provide a much-needed brain break for students. It can also open the door for them to give back to the community while expressing themselves.
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November 4, 2025
Students take the lead in growing sustainability program
The Climate and Sustainability Leadership Program brings together students across all majors to learn through campus discussions and hands-on experiences with Rochester-area partners. The goal is to create leaders in sustainability.