News by Topic: Student Experience

The Conversation features an essay by Eric Williams, professor of sustainability, and Payam Saeedi, Ph.D. candidate in sustainability, examining why many consumers keep old electronics stored in drawers instead of recycling, reselling, or donating them.

The $24 million gift supports several strategic priorities, including the creation of a Harris-Pratt Directorship for the university's new artificial intelligence institute expected to launch in early 2027, expanded scholarship support, and strengthened endowments for three distinguished professorships.

More than 1,800 student-engineers from universities in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Mexico designed and built off-road vehicles for the Baja SAE New York competition.

A team of RIT researchers, led by Professor Linwei Wang, is improving healthcare by creating hybrid AI digital twins of patient’s organs and diseases. The work will lead to real-time, physics-integrated digital twins of the liver and improved AI models that could assist doctors with heart surgery.

The Christian Science Monitor examines how colleges are expanding artificial intelligence programs and features commentary from incoming student Remington Ochoa, who chose to pursue AI studies at RIT after seeing the technology as a tool that can augment human skills rather than replace them.

Sports Video Group names Teddy Batkin '26 (motion picture science) to its Students To Watch list, highlighting his work with the RIT Sports Network, contributions to the broadcast infrastructure at Judson Stadium, and his transition to a full-time engineering role with Game Creek Video.

Like Indiana Jones, researchers at RIT’s Interaction, Media, and Learning Lab hope to save pieces of history before they disappear so that people can learn from the designs.

Fingerlakes1 highlights an RIT-created dinosaur reconstruction by Andrew Bovenzi '26 (studio arts) that has been selected for display at the Museum of the Earth, showcasing the intersection of art and paleontological science.

Hridiza Roy followed a summer internship at Disney Studios, with a fall position in the Gap Year Entrepreneurial Fellowship. The RIT program gave her a block of time and a stipend to advance her passion project—Painterly, an animation software tool.

Shubha Shastry earned an RIT Executive MBA to bridge business strategy and patient care.

Jay McHarg, CEO of AeroSafe Global, has been named as the 2026 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, presented by Saunders College of Business.

Antibiotic resistance is a major public health threat. As multidrug-resistant bacteria continue to increase, researchers at RIT are looking for a solution.