Student stories

2021–22 was among RISD’s top five years for fundraising and set a new record for volunteering and other forms of community involvement.

First-year students from around the globe experience the start of the 2022–23 academic year at RISD.

The 50th anniversary of RISD’s residential Pre-College program brings 430 high school students to campus for immersive six-week experience.

Project Open Door students are back on campus this summer, trying their hands at everything from textiles to toy design in long-running RISD program.

RISD students and recent grads are using design thinking skills to support positive change in Africa, Asia and North and South America.

Students examine a local island habitat through the lenses of environmental justice and Indigenous perspectives.

Students are exploring European cultural and design traditions this summer in Denmark, France, Italy and the Azores.

Hundreds of current RISD students are learning the ropes this summer by working for design firms, nonprofits, publishing companies and more. 

A SPUR-funded project by grad student Zoë Pulley presents positive images of Black people to counteract the negative imagery flooding the media.