Students

Welcome Back, RPI Students!

We are excited to welcome you back to campus for another year of learning, discovery, and community at RPI. Whether you are returning or joining us for the first time, we are thrilled to see our campus come alive again with your energy, ideas, and contributions.

Second showing! Persepolis: Troy 2025 by Iannis Xenakis x Micah Silver | Aug. 30

Date: Saturday, August 30, 2025 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Experience a seminal work of 20th-century sound art—reframed as an immersive 55-minute installation-performance. Composed in 1971 for a ritual performance amid the ruins of the ancient city of Persepolis, Iran, this eight-channel work invoked fire, movement, and night sky as a sonic act of resistance. At EMPAC, it resounds in a different kind of temple—one built not to glorify power, but to listen. No stage. No performers. Just you and the architecture vibrating with sound.

Annual State Fire Inspections in Residential Buildings Begin September 3

The New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control (OFPC) conducts annual building inspections of all college and universities across the state. Inspections of RPI residential buildings will begin on September 3, 2025, and are expected to take approximately three to four weeks.

TOPOS 2025: King Britt presents Liberation Meditations: A Call at EMPAC | Aug. 28

Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 9:00 PM - 39 speakers. 1 immersive ritual. Visionary producer and sonic explorer King Britt returns with a powerful spatial sound experience unfolding within EMPAC’s state-of-the-art Studio 1—Goodman. Featuring collaborators Suzi Analogue and Myles Ortiz-Green, their performances weave turntables, analog synths, and digital textures into a ritual of rhythm and healing.

TOPOS 2025: The Living Earth Show presents Lazyhorse in Troy | Aug. 28

Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - FREE all-ages show! For TOPOS, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and visual artist Raven Chacon returns to music’s most raw and immediate form: the band. Drawing on his roots in noise, thrash, and metal (Tenderizor, KILT, White People Killed Them), Chacon channels that energy into an excavation of American musical traditions: country, folk, and their haunted echoes. One night only!

Masters Students' Orientation | Aug. 26

Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM - Lunch will begin at 1:30pm at Heffner Alumni house. During lunch, you will have a chance to ask questions and learn about your expected journey at RPI. We will walk together to the campus resource fair, which will begin at 3:30pm in DCC. Orientation will end at 5pm.

PhD Students' Orientation | Aug. 26

Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Lunch will begin at 12pm at Heffner Alumni house. We will then take a quick campus tour ending in DCC308 for welcome notes and a panel discussion with faculty advisors (1:30-3pm). The campus resource fair will begin at 3:30pm, and while you wait you can get to know your peers better over coffee and cookies. Orientation will end at 5pm.

Join RPI’s Red & White Student Organization, apply by Sept. 12

Be part of RPI tradition! The Red & White Student Organization connects students with alumni, leads tours, and promotes school pride. Gain experience, friendships, and a chance to represent RPI. Apply by Sept. 12: https://forms.gle/14Trz9VS23FgD4iq6

Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony 2025

When: Friday, May 9, 2025

Where: EMPAC - Concert Hall

Check-in starts- at 7:45 AM ( coffee will be served)

Ceremony- at 8:30 AM

Refreshments- after the ceremony concludes.

The hooding ceremony is a unique recognition of the achievement of each student who has earned a doctorate. Each doctoral candidate is introduced individually during the ceremony. They will have their hood placed on them while standing on the stage in the concert hall.

New York City - Incoming Student Sendoff 2025

Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - If you live in the NYC area, and are home on spring break, we invite you to join local alumni at the West End Labs, 125 W End Avenue, to welcome the incoming Class of 2029 and their families to RPI! Come share your RPI stories and tips with our newest students, and help make them feel welcome and connected.

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