News by Topic: Student Experience

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.

Researchers have developed a solution to finding a compatible gel medium to host human cells and a device that can print the delicate cells safely.

RIT’s Pre-Health Advising Program helps students gain hands-on experience through a partnership with the Rochester Regional Health System.

Making the transition to college can be challenging, but a program at Saunders College of Business helps ease that stress. The Freshman Experience: BIZ 1+2 program is built around the concept that students succeed when they feel supported by their professors and peers.

Rochester Business Journal includes RIT President Bill Sanders in its Power 100 list for 2026.