Student Stories
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First-year Landscape Architecture students learn valuable skills of the trade by collaborating on an observation deck at Tillinghast Farm.
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Students in a graduate architecture seminar use photogrammetry to express their visions for the built environment.
![An illustration of a young woman standing on a hill and looking down on a futuristic, sustainable world, drawn by Mikyung Lee](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-10/22GristImagineReferenceDisplay.jpg?h=2e3eca71&itok=dydBauv6)
RISD’s Liberal Arts division welcomes sponsors of creative writing contest Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors.
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Students in a fall Glass studio taught by Sean Salstrom MFA 06 GL use movement and choreography as a starting point for experimentation.
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RISD students and recent alums are using funding from RISD Research to develop interdisciplinary projects with communities around the world.
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Eleven outstanding graduate students who began their studies at RISD last September share their global perspectives with the larger community.
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2021/22 was among RISD’s top five years for fundraising and set a new record for volunteering and other forms of community involvement.
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First-year students from around the globe experience the start of the 2022–23 academic year at RISD.
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The 50th anniversary of RISD’s residential Pre-College program brings 430 high school students to campus for immersive six-week experience.