Campus Spotlight

July

7/26/2017
RIT jointly hosted a two-day international workshop on Urban Data Science with the India Institute of Technology, Madras.

7/25/2017
Mariena Schneider performs a blood test during the SMASH Experience for Girls camp. Forty middle-school girls learned how math and science are part of everyday life during the camp.

7/24/2017
Forty middle-school girls learned about math and science at the SMASH Experience on campus.

7/20/2017
RIT faculty members spoke at an event during VoteTilla, celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Voices and Votes in New York State.

7/19/2017
Project Lead the Way at RIT provides training for high school teachers across the country in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines.

7/18/2017
RIT researchers received funding through the U.S. Department of Energy for their work.

7/17/2017
Students from the Seneca Nation visited RIT for Native American Outreach Day.

7/17/2017
CAST faculty member Gretchen Wainwright helps high school student Scotia Snyder build a bridge with coffee stirrers during Native American Outreach Day.

7/14/2017
Construction continues on the building that will house MAGIC Spell Studios.

7/14/2017
Keith Jenkins, RIT interim vice president and associate provost, speaks to his Intercultural Communication class.

7/13/2017
The digital photography workshop for high school students included a painting with light demo.

7/12/2017
Middle school students participated in the “Living Things: From Macroscopic to Microscopic” camp this week, hosted by RIT’s Center for Bioscience Education and Technology.

7/10/2017
High school students from around the country are visiting campus this week as part of NTID’s career exploration program, Explore Your Future.

7/5/2017
Members of the RIT community lined up to extend a warm welcome to President David Munson on his first day in office.

7/3/2017
New pedestrian walkway signs went up around campus recently.

June

6/30/2017
The 2017 REU Graduate Study and Research Symposium featured presentations on work being done in RIT’s seven Research Experience for Undergraduates programs.

6/28/2017
Saunders College of Business named John LiDestri, CEO of LiDestri Food & Drink, as the 2017 recipient of the Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award.

6/27/2017
Representatives of ASM Systems and RIT’s Center for Electronics Manufacturing and Assembly celebrated their expanded research and development collaboration.

6/22/2017
RIT’s MAGIC Center and Make-A-Wish Central New York teamed up to create a high-end, custom-built gaming computer for 14-year-old Riley Zabele, who loves video games.

6/12/2017
Nearly 600 people gathered Saturday on campus for a gala dinner to honor President Bill Destler and his spouse, Rebecca Johnson.

6/9/2017
Officials from Japan’s Kanazawa Institute of Technology visited to take part in a signing ceremony for RIT’s first international dual degree agreement.

6/9/2017
East House Enrichment Program offered a Creative Journaling class.

6/9/2017
Kimberlee Keithley shared the Norman Miles Scholarship with her mentor, Steven Weinstein.

6/9/2017
Researchers from RIT developed a high-speed internet highway for emergency first responders and managers.

6/8/2017
RIT was awarded a grant to involve and retain deaf/hard-of-hearing, female and African-American, Latino/a-American and Native American students in the College of Science.

6/7/2017
The 19th Annual RITirees Picnic honored retired faculty and staff members.

6/6/2017
The “Wear Orange: Art to Action” exhibit at Gallery r highlights National Gun Violence Awareness Month. The show is on view through Sunday.

6/4/2017
Genesee Valley QuiltFest 2017 displayed over 600 quilts in the Gordon Field House.

6/1/2017
Volunteers sort items left behind by students moving out of the dorms for the upcoming Goodbye, Goodbuy! sale in August.

May

5/31/2017
RIT researcher Matt Hoffman talked to fifth graders at the Harley School this week about plastic pollution in the Great Lakes.

5/30/2017
The men's lacrosse team placed second in the nation after falling to Salisbury University in the NCAA Division III Championship game on Sunday.

5/24/2017
Unlike today, yesterday’s weather was perfect for the annual Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display. Dave and Sandra Sluberski dressed to complement their 1930 Ford Model A coupe.

5/24/2017
RIT Staff Council hosted its yearly Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display May 24 as part of the annual Staff Appreciation Day and Community Picnic.

5/22/2017
RIT’s Class of 2017 included a record number of 44 students from the diagnostic medical sonography program in the College of Health Sciences and Technology.

5/19/2017
Soon-to-be graduates gather ahead of RIT’s 132nd commencement celebration. College ceremonies take place throughout the day today and Saturday.

5/18/2017
CASTLE (Center for Advancing STEM Training, Learning and Education) celebrated RIT faculty and student research.

5/17/2017
Seniors decorated their caps for graduation during Senior Week. Convocation is noon–2 p.m. tomorrow in the Gordon Field House, and a live stream will be available online.

5/16/2017
Students in the School for American Crafts’ ceramics, glass, metals and jewelry design and furniture design programs displayed their work at the annual Walkthrough.

5/15/2017
RIT’s Telefund, a group of students who call members of the RIT community to fundraise, celebrated surpassing their April goal with an ice cream social with President Bill Destler.

5/15/2017
Two students graduating from RIT this week are the first to receive bachelor’s degrees in RIT’s new Digital Humanities and Social Sciences program.

5/14/2017
The baseball team defeated Clarkson 9-4 on Friday for the Tigers’ first Liberty League Tournament Championship and first NCAA Division III tournament appearance.

5/12/2017
RIT students, faculty and staff gathered for the final Gray Matter discussion for the semester.

5/11/2017
James Watters, senior vice president of Finance and Administration, and student Wilson Darko were honored with the Alfred L. Davis Distinguished Public Service Awards.

5/10/2017
The RIT community got to experience the sights, sounds and flavors of RIT’s campuses abroad with virtual reality headsets, music by WITR-FM and food by Brick City Catering.

5/10/2017
The quad area near Louise Slaughter Hall and Sustainability Institute Hall has been officially named Destler-Johnson Quad in honor of President Bill Destler and Rebecca Johnson.

5/9/2017
Nathan Stevens accepted the top prize in the student category for the first-ever New York State Game Development Challenge.

5/8/2017
Iris portraits were taken at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 6.

5/7/2017
Student Helen Snell makes a facial mask at the “Prosthetics to Special Effects: Life Mask Creation” exhibit at Imagine RIT on Saturday.

5/7/2017
RIT Formula Racing opened its 25th anniversary season at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 6.

5/5/2017
Step Afrika!, one of the top 10 African American dance companies in the country, performed at RIT. The group, founded in 1994, tours internationally.

5/4/2017
RIT/NTID hosted the annual Student Research Fair April 28 in Rosica hall.

5/4/2017
Josh Meltzer, assistant professor of photojournalism, hangs images for the RIT National Press Photographers Association’s “What We Do” exhibit ahead of today’s opening reception.

5/4/2017
Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Heath Boice-Pardee spoke about his career path as part of the First Talk speaker series.

5/3/2017
Members of RIT’s Muslim Student Association and others painted a new mural in the tunnels.

5/2/2017
NTID celebrated the retirement of faculty and staff with NTID President Gerry Buckley.

5/2/2017
RIT/NTID’s CSD-Student Development Center celebrated 10 years last week.

5/1/2017
Andy Grammer performed on Saturday as part of SpringFest.

April

4/28/2017
The third annual Global Learning Symposium celebrated the experiences of faculty and students who recently traveled abroad.

4/27/2017
Students share their ice cream on an unusually warm day Thursday.

4/27/2017
Rohan Patel sorts items at RIT’s FoodShare Center, which is celebrating two years in operation this month. The center offers food to students and others at RIT for free.

4/26/2017
Book artist Richard Minsky will present an illustrated talk on unconventional bookbinding techniques at 6 p.m. today in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection in The Wallace Center.

4/25/2017
Students experienced sailing at the Rochester Yacht Club as part of an immersion class through the School of Individualized Study.

4/24/2017
Preparation and planting started in the RIT community garden.

4/24/2017
RIT President Bill Destler showed students his new electric car, a red Chevrolet BoltEV.

4/24/2017
Anime enthusiasts, such as Tyler Paine from Ithaca, N.Y., attended the 13th annual Tora-Con, hosted by RIT’s Student Anime Club.

4/23/2017
Student Ana Sorensen demonstrates a transfer lift that will improve accessibility for skiers with impaired leg movement during the Effective Access Technology Conference.

4/23/2017
Clifford Wun received the 2017 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.

4/23/2017
Lynn Fuller received the 2017 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.

4/23/2017
Richard Cliver received the 2017 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.

4/23/2017
Benjamin Banta received the 2017 Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

4/22/2017
Environmentalist Aaron Mair spoke about climate justice as part of Earth Week.

4/21/2017
Environmentalist Aaron Mair spoke about climate justice as part of Earth Week in the MOSAIC Center on April 20.

4/20/2017
RIT’s Center for Religious Life and Hillel sponsored PB Jam, a mammoth peanut butter and jelly sandwich-making assembly line, on April 19.

4/18/2017
Melanie Morris, a second-year environmental science student, collects old electronics for recycling or refurbishing during the 18th annual Electronics Recycling Day event.

4/17/2017
Students walk into the Student Alumni Union on a recent spring day.

4/17/2017
RIT students, faculty and staff celebrated President Bill Destler and his spouse, Rebecca Johnson, with a Tiger Walk and a reception on Friday.

4/14/2017
Sign language interpreting students attend the annual Student Interpreting Association Career/Resource Fair.

4/13/2017
Gallery r recently featured a group exhibition by School of Art students. The next exhibit, by School for American Crafts students, begins with a reception at 6 p.m. on Thursday.

4/13/2017
RIT student researchers presented their work at the RIT Research Spotlights: Health and Life Sciences event.

4/12/2017
Dr. Ann Quiroz Gates was the guest speaker at the sixth annual Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking Lecture.

4/11/2017
The U.S. Postal Service honored Robert Panara, the first deaf faculty member of NTID, with a stamp in the Distinguished Americans series. Panara is shown signing “respect.”

4/10/2017
Nearly 100 people from around the country attended the Symposium on American Indian Languages, including Gabriela Perez Baez of the Smithsonian Institution.

4/10/2017
Nearly 100 people from around the country attended a symposium to discuss preservation of native languages of the Americas.

4/9/2017
The 40th annual RIT Juggle-In, one of the longest running juggling festivals in North America, attracted hundreds of participants and viewers.

4/8/2017
The RIT West African Percussion Ensemble performed with master drummer Fana Bangoura and dancers from the Pan-African Percussion and Dance Ensemble MOUNAFANYI.

4/8/2017
The RIT West African Percussion Ensemble performed with dancers from the Pan-African Percussion and Dance Ensemble MOUNAFANYI.

4/7/2017
RIT hosted its annual tribute to the Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars on Thursday.

4/6/2017
Construction has begun on the building that will house MAGIC Spell Studios.

4/4/2017
Associate Professor Lea Vacca Michel explains ways to negotiate starting pay to student Kelsea Jones during an Equal Pay Day event, hosted by Women in Science.

4/3/2017
The GE Mobile Campus Tour stopped by RIT April 3 to speak with students about what it’s like to be a woman working in science and technology.

4/2/2017
Students Farid Barquet and Layla Phouthavong participate in the Heel Violence walk to raise awareness of domestic violence in the deaf community.

4/1/2017
The Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation celebrated 10 years at RIT on March 31.

March

3/31/2017
Members of WE@RIT hosted nearly 125 accepted female students to the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the annual WE Retreat.

3/31/2017
Tyrone Stewart, an adviser from the University of Michigan, spoke as part of the ninth annual National Conference for Individualized Major Programs, co-hosted by RIT.

3/31/2017
Companies from Rochester to California attended the 12th annual Creative Industry Day, which offered portfolio reviews and networking for students interested in creative fields.

3/30/2017
Student Jenna Doran holds a print of the First Amendment, made on an 18th-century-style wooden printing press created by an interdisciplinary group of students.

3/30/2017
Fairy Tale Courtroom, an NTID production, debuts at 7:30 tonight in the 1510 Lab Theatre.

3/29/2017
Students met with prospective employers at the College of Liberal Arts Career Fair.

3/28/2017
Patagonia’s Worn Wear repair team travels to colleges around the country to fix clothing and to show people how to do their own clothing repairs.

3/27/2017
Kyle Suero, a third-year computer security student, often catches a quick nap between classes in the Campus Center.

3/26/2017
The Wallace Center held a Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to celebrate Women’s History Month. Volunteers edited and added entries about significant women.

3/25/2017
Students celebrated the Persian New Year with music and dance performances.

3/24/2017
Members of student government gather to listen to the Carillon play for the first time since 2014 on March 24.

3/24/2017
Mary Sullivan, dean emerita of the College of Liberal Arts, presided over a memorial service for Stan McKenzie, a beloved member of the RIT family.

3/24/2017
A celebration of life for Provost Emeritus Stan McKenzie was held March 24.

3/24/2017
Miles Hood, a first-year hospitality and tourism student, received a free brush cut during the GLBT Health Fair.

3/23/2017
Students from the RIT College Panhellenic Council donated books to Margaret’s House in recognition of 10 students in sororities who earned 4.0 averages in the fall.

3/22/2017
Jeanne Casares, associate vice president and chief information officer, spoke as part of the I’m First speaker series, in which first-generation faculty and staff share their stories.

3/21/2017
Ryan Jeter, a second-year 3D design student, snowboards outside The Wallace Center.

3/19/2017
The 2017 FIRST Robotics and the annual Finger Lakes Regional competition was held at RIT March 17-18.

3/17/2017
RIT President Bill Destler was recognized for his long-time support of FIRST Robotics and the annual Finger Lakes Regional competition.

3/15/2017
RIT student Kevin Cosgrove presented on incorporating drone technology into e-commerce delivery during the annual Packaging Jamboree, hosted by packaging science students.

3/13/2017
Kara Massie from Vicarious Visions spoke at the kickoff for the New York State Game Dev Challenge, a competition for students and indie game developers.

3/10/2017
Hal Daume III, guest lecturer for the Distinguished Linguistics Lecture, lunched with students and faculty.

3/9/2017
Photography professor Michael Peres has an exhibit, “Snowflakes Up Close,” at the Rochester Museum & Science Center through April 30.

3/9/2017
Photography professor Michael Peres has an exhibit, Snowflakes Up Close, at the Rochester Museum & Science Center.

3/8/2017
The RIT United Way Campaign kicked off Wednesday with carnival games, food, prize auction, CHAIRity art auction and RIT celebrity ice cream servers.

3/7/2017
Editor in Chief of Reporter Magazine Mandi Moon spoke at a wellness event Tuesday.

3/6/2017
Students, faculty and staff participated in Ellie’s 5k Run/Walk on Sunday in honor of former RIT/NTID staff member Ellie Rosenfield.

3/5/2017
Graduate students in Visual Communication Design and Industrial Design attended a Microsoft workshop.

3/3/2017
RIT alumna Jane M. Elliott delivered the keynote presentation at the eighth annual Power Your Potential women’s networking event hosted by Saunders College of Business.

3/2/2017
Some 4,600 students attended the Spring Career Fair on Wednesday, including Xiao Cui, a first-year graduate student in visual communication design, who spoke with a recruiter from Kodak.

3/1/2017
The Black History Game Show tested players’ knowledge. Virgil Dombrowski, far left, of Endeavor Entertainment served as the show’s host.

3/1/2017
Ninth-grade students from the Rochester City School District visited the Toyota Production Systems Lab at RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering.

3/1/2017
Incoming RIT President David C. Munson Jr. held an open forum with students, faculty and staff on Tuesday. A second forum will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Ingle Auditorium.

February

2/28/2017
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren answers questions from students in a public speaking class.

2/27/2017
The women’s basketball team won its first Liberty League Championship in program history. The Tigers defeated Clarkson University 85-72.

2/27/2017
RIT’s Women in Computing group held its annual all-women hackathon over the weekend to help support young women interested in the field of computing.

2/25/2017
The RIT men’s hockey team participates in training to help prevent injury.

2/24/2017
Visiting artist Bryan Czibesz built a 3D ceramic printer with students this week.

2/24/2017
Civil engineering alumni Justin Hamilton, left, and Chris Stern spoke during National Engineers Week at RIT.

2/23/2017
NTID celebrated Black History Month with guest speaker Melanie Funchess.

2/23/2017
Steven Abitz, from GE Healthcare, talked to a group of graduate students after his speech during RIT’s Graduate Education Week.

2/22/2017
Rebecca Johnson gave a motivational talk in the MOSAIC Center.

2/21/2017
Ninth-grade students from Rochester Central School District visit the Toyota Production Systems Lab at RIT’s Kate Gleason School of Engineering.

2/20/2017
The William Harris Gallery is featuring an exhibition of senior capstone projects from six fourth-year photojournalism students.

2/20/2017
Actor and comedian T.J. Miller performed during FreezeFest 2017.

2/19/2017
Students play soccer wearing Bubble Balls at FreezeFest.

2/19/2017
Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Chi sponsored Winter Warrior, a 12-part winter obstacle course.

2/18/2017
More than 200 campus participants attended the Move 78 Retreat to learn more about Artificial Intelligence, neuromorphic computing, machine learning and cognitive technologies.

2/17/2017
RIT President Bill Destler and Rebecca Johnson performed Thursday night as part of this year’s FreezeFest. Events continue through Sunday.

2/16/2017
RIT hosted a Community Service Fair with local agencies on Thursday.

2/15/2017
Students lined up for FreezeFest shirts on Wednesday. The annual winter festival begins on Thursday.

2/14/2017
Today is Thank a Giver (TAG) Day, an effort to highlight the importance of donor contributions to RIT. Red tags mark some of the things made possible by gifts to RIT.

2/14/2017
Red tags have been placed on things around campus that were made possible through gifts to RIT.

2/13/2017
Students Kyle Blakely and Rebecca Coronel assembled Valentine’s Day gift bags on Saturday.

2/12/2017
RIT’s Alpha Phi Omega chapter hosted a Merit Badge University event where more than 400 Boy Scouts participated in a day of workshops to earn multiple merit badges.

2/10/2017
Professor Emeritus Dane Gordon gave a poetry reading at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection. Gordon taught philosophy for more than 35 years at RIT.

2/10/2017
February is American Heart Month. RIT’s Better Me Wellness Program is offering free blood pressure tests from noon to 4 p.m. today in the Bamboo Room.

2/9/2017
The Graduation Fair on Wednesday marked 100 days until commencement weekend.

2/8/2017
President Bill Destler and Rebecca Johnson spoke as part of the Agape Latte speaker series. The series focuses on faith on college campuses.

2/7/2017
Ron Ricotta ’79 celebrates the dedication of the Ronald S. Ricotta Wrestling Locker Room.

2/6/2017
The College Activities Board hosted its annual Super Bowl party on Sunday.

2/5/2017
More than 110 girls attended the Girls Soaring in STEM Fair, hosted by RIT’s Women in Science, Women in Computing, Women in Technology and Women in Engineering groups.