News by Topic: Student Experience

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.

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

After Lily Roberts, 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.

Spirit, a 9-month-old black Labrador, is on RIT’s campus this semester, receiving his initial training to eventually become a guide dog for the blind.

Three student-athletes majoring in industrial design used their collaborative mindsets to help bring their vision of an 8-foot-tall National Collegiate Athletic Association championship trophy to life.

Imaging science Ph.D. student Muhammad Akif Qadeer has been awarded the 2025 Harvey M. Pollicove Memorial Scholarship from the Optica Foundation. The award is given to one student each year who shows potential in precision optics manufacturing and lens design.